Get the latest research on decision science and safety decision-making practices in child welfare to help improved safety outcomes.

Learn about quality contacts, why they are important, and how an agency can successfully implement them.

This tool is a role-playing activity, designed to help child welfare workers and supervisors become more familiar with the process of recognizing and translating buzzwords into descriptive language.

Get the basics on general practice for agency interventions, including screening, documenting descriptions of abuse and protective efforts, and evaluating risk.

Learn about the Youth Welfare approach, which outlines how agencies can shift from a child-focused system to a youth-focused system.

Explore additional resources aimed at the needs of expecting and parenting teens in child welfare.

Examine new software and technology innovations, which provide better, more integrated services and cut costs for states and jurisdictions.

Assists agencies to evaluate how well the services in an area of their choice follow the Youth Welfare approach.

Suggests examples of service provision for youth in foster care in the area of financial literacy and describes how those services can be improved using a “Good-Better-Best” continuum approach.

Learn how to conduct a total cost of ownership analysis and see how various system development choices can influence included costs.

Learn to facilitate a normalcy conversation and to promote normal and developmentally appropriate experiences for youth in foster care.

Explore the various aspects of the importance of normalcy for children and youth in care.

Examine a five-step framework that helps organizations promote youth engagement in normalcy conversations about the youth’s own care.

A Tip Sheet for Child Welfare Workers - Linking Families to Health Insurance

A Tip Sheet for Child Welfare Workers— Linking Families to Health Insurance