Frankie is 14 years old and lives with his sister, brothers, and moms. He and his sister were adopted when they were 2 years old and 4 years old, respectively. He loves spending time with his aunts, uncles, and cousins and loves being part of a big family.

Explore strategies to engage individuals with lived experience as advisors for groups, committees, boards, and more. 

Learn strategies for accurately and safely collecting data on LGBTQIA2S+ youth and young adults.

Watch a discussion on focusing on job-specific skills (instead of best practices culture), training in a virtual environment, and integrating racial equity across child welfare training.

Learn how to engage young people and families with lived expertise in the CFSR process at a child welfare agency. 

Discover strategies for co-creating and sharing power with youth and families in child welfare.

Shares Stephen’s story about being a community-based provider and policymaker in Florida, the need for laws that empower caregiver decision-making, creating Florida’s reasonable and prudent parent standard (RPPS), and the effect RPPS and normalcy laws can have on foster care.

Learn about the values of cultural competence, cultural humility, and cultural safety, and how to implement them at a child welfare agency.  

Learn about the value of kinship placements when children and youth must live outside their birth parents’ homes. 

Explore strategies for engaging and empowering fathers of color in child welfare. 

Learn about the challenges of engaging difficult-to-reach populations of youth and young adults. 

Meet the series cohosts as they talk about sharing lived expertise and power with child welfare agency leaders and staff.

Hear about the experiences of sharing power between a child welfare agency leader in Nevada and a young adult with lived expertise.

Hear how sharing power begins with building trusting relationships.

Hear a father and an agency administrator talk about what needs to be in place to make family engagement easier.