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Podcast

Listen to child welfare agency leaders in the District of Columbia, service providers, partners in community collaboratives, and sister agencies talk about how they coordinate service planning and delivery, are culturally responsive to the community, and provide seamless services to families.

PDF

Find information about using collaborative practices and models across human service systems to better serve families dealing with co-occurring issues.

Webinar

​Learn from people with lived experience about the impact of kinship care on children in the child welfare system.

PDF

Use this discussion guide with the CWVE 2022 videos to view a description of each topic, access individual reflection questions to facilitate personal, on-demand learning, and explore conversation starters and team activities with child welfare staff and collaborative partners.   

Podcast

Listen to child welfare agency leaders in the District of Columbia talk about how they work with partners to use their different data lenses to understand the needs of families and to structure a set of services to best meet the full spectrum of needs. In Kentucky, child welfare agency leaders describe the process of finding the story behind the numbers to transform their system.

PDF

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

Video

Explore strategies for developing a comprehensive community prevention framework across all levels of prevention.

Webinar

Watch this video to learn how community-based partnerships strengthen families and see what jurisdictions are doing to build lines of collaboration and trust.

Video

Learn about Dezzie’s experience bonding with her newborn while embracing parenting classes and other agency supports in her journey to be reunified with her daughter.

Webinar

Hear about the youth-led projects of the Division X Technical Assistance project in fiscal year 2022.

Webinar

Hear how Division X Technical Assistance Targeted Assistance Projects (TAPs) helped child welfare agencies enhance policies and practices for youth and young adults.

PDF

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

PDF

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

Video

Discover services and resources aimed at the needs of expecting and parenting teens in child welfare. 

PDF

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