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Podcast

Explore the efforts agencies, community collaborative organizations, and others are making to bring families, youth, and communities to the table as they strive to improve the child welfare system in this podcast. 

Webinar

Explore innovative programs and strategies that child welfare professionals can use to support reunification and emphasize caregiver and parent voice.

PDF

Learn to use the CFSR Round 4 SPSS syntax to calculate observed performance for a state on all or selected statewide data indicators.

Webinar

Get practical information about supporting coordinated strategic and long-term planning.

PDF

Read recent research on child welfare workforce management, including recruitment and retention, professional development, and organizational culture.

Video

Watch this recorded webinar to learn how other jurisdictions encourage kinship care placements and then discuss kinship support with your team.

PDF

Explore the types of simulation training available, the benefits, costs, and other considerations, when setting up a simulation training program.

Video

Bruce and Brenda have been married for 33 years and have four daughters. From 2006 to 2009, they provided a kinship placement for their four grandchildren. In 2010, the couple adopted Bruce (now 18 years old), Tre’Nae (now 15 years old), Mason (now 13 years old), and Kiaunna (now 10 years old).

Video

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

Video

Learn actionable ways to engage in authentic, nonexploitative storytelling practices with people with lived experience and expertise. 

PDF

Explore additional resources to learn actionable ways to engage in authentic, nonexploitative storytelling practices with people with lived experience and expertise.

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Explore additional resources to learn actionable ways to engage in authentic, nonexploitative storytelling practices with people with lived experience and expertise.

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Explore additional resources to learn how child welfare organizations can create equity in the workforce. 

Video

Learn how child welfare organizations can create equity in the workforce. 

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Learn about the definition and calculation of the CFSR statewide data indicator maltreatment in foster care.