Learn about the range of practices comprising the continuum of youth engagement to youth empowerment.

Learn how jurisdictions across the country respond to human trafficking cases and explore the latest developments in effective intervention.

Learn how Anntesha’s experience as a child living with her grandparents and later in foster care influenced her to become a relative caregiver to her niece and nephew and work as a kinship navigator. 

Use this assessment tool to identify strengths and areas for growth to enhance your team’s psychological safety.
 

Explore how data reported in AFCARS about youth who run away from state custody can be used to inform interventions.

This video highlights the story of a therapeutic foster care social worker in North Carolina and how her own experience in kinship care helps her connect with kinship caregivers and engage families.

Use this tool with your prevention planning team to prepare for and tackle the adaptive challenges that many states face as they develop and implement prevention plans. 

Learn about Child Welfare Capacity Building Collaborative's evidence-informed approach to the change and implementation process.

Explore opportunities and lessons learned from the implementation of Division X of the Supporting Foster Youth and Families Through the Pandemic Act, P.L. 116–260.

Explore how child welfare professionals and organizations can build capacity for implementing the reasonable and prudent parent standard (RPPS) for children and youth in foster care. 

Learn about the practice and systemic changes Hawaii, Indiana, and Westchester County, NY, made in partnership with their youth and young adult partners.

Examine current research and how best to build organizational capacity in five areas, and learn about possible challenges and solutions.

Learn about Catherine’s journey recovering from trauma and addiction to be successfully reunified with her daughter.

Access this project management resource to plan for the CFSR Statewide Assessment. 

Explore considerations for equitable, inclusive, and data-driven problem exploration.