Learn about the range of practices comprising the continuum of youth engagement to youth empowerment.

Explore opportunities and lessons learned from the implementation of Division X of the Supporting Foster Youth and Families Through the Pandemic Act, P.L. 116–260.

Learn about the practice and systemic changes Hawaii, Indiana, and Westchester County, NY, made in partnership with their youth and young adult partners.

Explore considerations for selecting, designing, and adapting effective and equitable interventions. 

Explore considerations for assessing readiness as part of an equitable and inclusive change and implementation process. 

Explore considerations for testing, piloting, and staging new programs and practices with attention to equity and inclusion. 

Explore considerations for monitoring and evaluating new interventions and applying findings to make adjustments aligned with equity and inclusion. 

Explore considerations for planning and building capacity for equitable implementation of new programs and practices. 

Explore considerations for convening a diverse team of partners, including people with lived expertise, to support equitable change and implementation efforts.

Explore considerations for equitable, inclusive, and data-driven problem exploration.

Explore considerations for collaboratively developing an equitable theory of change.

Explore information and strategies for advancing racial equity through problem exploration.

Consider whose perspectives are represented on your team. 

Learn about the Children’s Bureau’s commitment to racial and other equity in its work and the actions the Children’s Bureau is taking to advance racial equity in child welfare. 

Use this presentation to follow along with the speakers as you watch the 2021 Child Welfare Virtual Expo Session 1 webinar, Understanding the Past to Build a New Future: Advancing Racial Equity for Children, Youth, and Families.