Constituency engagement

These brief videos talk about why it is important to recognize the strengths within each family.

Parent partners can guide parents through a difficult time and instill hope. Learn more about parent partner programs in this issue brief.

This appendix provides a brief summary of the research on individual parent partner programs.

Learn how a foster parent and parent partner worked together to wrap supports around a birth mother so she could reunify with her child.

Learn how Louisiana implemented Initial Calls and Icebreakers to build trust between birth and foster parents and promote shared parenting.

Explore how Youth Support Partners provide peer support and influence child welfare policy and practice in Allegheny County, Pa.

Learn how the Quality Parenting Initiative cultivates excellent parenting and supports caregivers to improve permanency for youth in care.

This Q&A explores strategies to ensure excellent parenting for children in foster care, and to support relationships with birth parents.

In this Q&A, Timothy Phipps describes the importance of involving parents, especially fathers, in designing the child welfare system.

The Parents for Parents program matches parents who have been reunified with those newly involved with child welfare to provide support and guidance.

Learn about the key elements of successful parent partner programs that offer support, guidance, and hope to birth parents.

Fathers play a critical role in children’s healthy development. Learn how to engage with and support fathers to prevent maltreatment.

In this Q&A, parents describe their personal experience with the child protection system and how agencies can engage better with parents.

This webinar deepens our understanding of parent partner programs and their positive effects on families impacted by child welfare.

Learn how organizations, partners, and key stakeholders can assess their readiness to co-design with people with lived experience.

Learn about steps agencies can take to prepare for youth involvement in their systems change efforts.

Learn how agencies can prepare to involve and share power with youth through youth advisory boards.

Learn how to invest in youth partners to improve and transform the child welfare system.

Learn about the three main sources of funding that are used to support parent partner programs.

Explore how various parent partner programs recruit, train, and support the parents who serve as peer mentors to other parents.

Families involved with child welfare systems can offer critical insights and feedback. Learn to design systems driven by their expertise.