Child Welfare

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 ...

This podcast episode features a discussion between a father and a child welfare agency administrator about how to make family engagement easier. The podcast explores how authentic engagement of people with lived experience can benefit parents, agencies, and improve outcomes for families, children, and youth. Learn more.  ...

This nine-segment podcast series seeks to examine the roles and perspectives of first responders, marginalized communities, legal systems, and the role of OJJDP in the opioid crisis. The podcast series is a product of the Opioid Affected Youth Initiative (OAYI), which supports juvenile and criminal justice systems to address the ...

This four-part webinar series seeks to deepen practitioners’ ability to provide healing care to transitional-aged young people who access mental health and community-based services. Through generative conversation, expert panel discussions, active learning experiences, and the exploration of tangible action steps, participants will expand their existing orientation to their work with ...

This brief (PDF, 11 pages) provides policy considerations that help young people and their families foster economic self-sufficiency through financial literacy and independence. These strategies can reduce financial pressures for young people as they transition to employment and adulthood. Learn more (PDF, 11 pages). ...

This fact sheet (PDF, 2 pages) shares resources to help child welfare professionals support the health, well-being, and cultural connectivity of Native youth while they journey into adulthood. Learn more.