What are community-based, multidisciplinary preventive legal advocacy programs?
Learn how multidisciplinary preventive legal advocacy programs support families in addressing and mitigating legal issues upstream.
We need systems transformation in child welfare. We believe forward-thinking, innovative leaders can work in partnership across a variety of sectors to create a 21st century child welfare system. The resources featured here reflect responses to inquiries about developing ideas, accelerating progress, improving outcomes, and moving their systems and communities toward the vision of a transformed child welfare system.
Learn how multidisciplinary preventive legal advocacy programs support families in addressing and mitigating legal issues upstream.
Learn how New York City leveraged Family Enrichment Centers and Community Partnerships to support families during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.
This learning exchange explores the “seven levers” that are key to ending the need for group placements in child welfare.
Learn from a participatory qualitative research report about the impacts of institutional placement on youth who experienced them.
Jonathan Nez, president of the Navajo Nation, reflects on the Indian Child Welfare Act and its importance to the Navajo Nation.
Understand how access to fundamental and tangible economic supports can strengthen families and reduce child maltreatment.
Learn from five state agencies about their strategies for implementing the QRTP requirements of the Family First Prevention Services Act.
Learn how organizations, partners, and key stakeholders can assess their readiness to co-design with people with lived experience.
Understand how the Family First Prevention Services Act supports Indiana’s commitment to deliver evidence-based services to families.
Explore a variety of our resources related to parent partner programs.
Explore how My Community Cares supports and strengthens families in Louisiana through community-based programs and services.
Learn findings from a study that examined how state-level policies can impact the number of child maltreatment reports and substantiations.
Ann Silverberg Williamson shares what she has learned about leadership, values, and transformation efforts during times of crisis.
This webinar deepens our understanding of parent partner programs and their positive effects on families impacted by child welfare.
Learn how leadership in New Jersey developed an array of home visiting programs to meet the diverse needs families with young children.
Learn about the steps Santa Clara County is taking to eliminate group and institutional placements as options for youth in foster care.
David Sanders discusses how child protection agencies and providers can move upstream to provide proactive support for families.
Understand how de-identifying case information during removal decision meetings reduced disparities among children entering care.