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National Child Abuse Prevention Month (NCAPM) recognizes the importance of families and communities working together to prevent child abuse and neglect. The month seeks to elevate prevention services and supports to help parents, other caregivers, and communities protect children and strengthen families. Learn more.  ...
This tip sheet (PDF, 2 pages) shares guidance from young people who have experienced mental health challenges about what they wish parents and caregivers would say and do when talking about mental health. Learn more (PDF, 2 pages). 
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, ...
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