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Offers rationale for and tips related to engaging youth and parents with lived expertise in developing support service programs.

Provides strategies and examples of how child welfare agencies should respectfully engage individuals with lived experience for assistance. This episode presents a session from the Capacity Building Center for State’s 2022 Child Welfare Virtual Expo. The speakers discuss why integrating lived expertise into the workforce is beneficial to child welfare agencies as well as considerations for integrating people with lived expertise into the workplace.

Discusses kinship care through an academic and personal experience lens. The presenter shares her family’s journey with kinship care.

Describes the value of program evaluation and how to plan for and approach it. Provides examples of evaluation approaches.

Shares program evaluation techniques and strategies to help agencies get what they need from evaluation efforts; offers examples from the field that can be adapted.

Outlines key elements of an evaluation plan and offers links to additional resources about evaluating program effectiveness.

Highlights the evaluation of the National Quality Improvement Center for Adoption and Guardianship Support and Preservations work in Tennessee.

Outlines the approaches to therapy, finding the right therapist and working with a therapist.

Provides a framework describing the unique family dynamics of kinship families.  Child welfare professionals can use this framework when engaging families and developing kinship program and services.

Explores how the Winnebago Tribes implemented Family Group Decision Making. Enables other sites to determine if the intervention would work for their jurisdiction and prepare for implementation.