Explore the benefits of and strategies for recruiting and integrating people with lived expertise into the child welfare workforce.

Use this discussion guide with CWVE 2023 videos to explore topics on workforce recruitment and retention, as well as access individual reflection exercises, discussion prompts, and team activities.

Explore how to use human resources data to address worker turnover with guides, resources, and videos from the Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development.

Explore workforce challenges in child welfare and highlight the urgent need to be brave in addressing those challenges.

Use this tool to help your child welfare agency develop a communication plan to support your change and implementation efforts. 

Join the Capacity Building Center for States and the Children’s Bureau at the 2024 Child Welfare Virtual Expo (CWVE), Leading From Where You Are.

Over the course of 2 half-days on Wednesday and Thursday, May 22–23, 2024, join us to learn more about transformational leadership and how everyone can inspire positive change in child welfare. 

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

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

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

Ensure that youth and young adults exiting foster care can obtain their vital documents before transitioning from foster care.

Consider whose perspectives are represented on your team. 

Find meaningful and actionable connections among your agency’s strategic planning, review, and CQI efforts using this toolkit.

Read about our new Young Adult Consultant team member, find helpful information about the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA), ways to engage persons with lived experience, and more!

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

Use this resource to prompt discussion and adopt a change management approach  during the development of child welfare information systems.