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This guide engages child welfare agency staff and partners with activities to start a dialogue and create a vision for a more prevention-focused child welfare system. Learn more. 
This information memorandum provides guidance to Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) grant recipients, technical assistance providers, and other youth-serving programs on how to meaningfully and authentically partner and collaborate with young people who have lived experience and subject matter expertise. This resource was co-developed with young people to promote ...
This tool supports child welfare teams in preparing for and conducting a psychological safety assessment. Teams should debrief the results together and make a collaborative plan for growth. Learn more. 
This resource is designed to help child welfare teams build shared understanding of psychological safety, its connection to safety science, and the conditions associated with psychologically safe teams. Users can engage in individual reflections, team activities, and discussion to explore strategies for fostering psychological safety on their team. Learn more.   ...
This tip sheet is designed to help young people, their caseworkers, and supportive adults ensure that vital documents (e.g., birth certificates, social security cards or information, driver’s licenses, health insurance information, medical records) and information related to credit reports are provided well before transition from foster care. Learn more.  ...
This webpage contains a set of fillable worksheets to bring together teams’ varied expertise, skills, and perspectives to guide child welfare change and implementation activities. Child welfare teams should complete the worksheets to:  Review team membership and discuss representation on their change and implementation team  Consider engagement of individuals who have direct ...
This toolkit provides agency teams with tools and discussion questions to better understand the connections among ongoing federal and agency efforts, identify opportunities for including people with lived experience in these initiatives, and examine disproportionality and disparities in services and outcomes. Learn more.  ...
The Race Equity Challenge is designed to promote a culture of learning, reflection, and action among child welfare professionals. This Challenge is an opportunity for up to 500 child welfare professionals to participate in an experience that examines their own biases, identifies how these biases show up in child welfare, ...
This webpage contains a collection of resources to help enhance agency culture and climate, identify areas that need attention, and implement improvements. The webpage features tips and strategies for improvement and examples from child welfare staff, agencies, stakeholders, and family leaders. Additional resources are provided. Learn more.  ...
This webpage shares guidance on how to design, implement, and enhance a parent partner program as a strategy for engaging families through peer mentoring and support. The Navigator supports child welfare administrators, staff, and family leaders through essential steps of planning and implementing successful parent partner programs and provides tips ...
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