Get ideas for working with community foundations, endowments, and charitable trusts to improve outcomes for children and youth.

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

The manual combines research and guidance on best practices in family empowerment with the evolving field of implementation science. The manual also reinforces and expands on concepts introduced in the Center for States’ Family Empowerment and Leadership Academy (FELA).

Get tips, guidance, and information about the CQI system assessment and implementation process, and learn how the Center helps agencies build capacity.

Consider ways to be intentional about advancing race equity while implementing new child welfare programs and practices. This publication includes questions for teams to consider throughout change and implementation processes—from the earliest stages of exploring a problem to identifying solutions to ensuring sustainable implementation.

Identify data sources to explore your state’s system of foster and adoptive parent licensing, recruitment, and retention.

Explore concepts, terms, and foundational information about psychological safety on child welfare teams.

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.

Explore and discuss state performance on CFSR statewide data indicators.

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

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