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This tool (PDF, 22 pages) is designed to help state education agencies (SEAs), local education agencies (LEAs), and other educators work collaboratively to leverage relationships with families and establish meaningful engagement. By using a continuous improvement process, teams at local, district, and state levels will assess current family engagement practices, ...

This program provides qualified college or university students in intelligence or cybersecurity career paths the opportunity to work alongside highly skilled intelligence or cybersecurity professionals at DHS, gain hands-on technical experience, interact with experts and peers at professional development events and expand their professional network at national conferences. The program ...

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.  ...

This report (PDF, 114 pages) draws on data from the National Juvenile Court Data Archive (Archive) to profile delinquency cases and petitioned status offense cases handled in 2021 by U.S. courts with juvenile jurisdiction. The report also tracks trends in delinquency and petitioned status cases between 2005 and 2021. Learn ...

This lesson plan contains student activities and teacher prompts to help teens make healthy choices about cannabis use. Learn more. 

This quiz tests players' knowledge on what causes drug overdoses and how to save a life using naloxone. 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 ...