Capacity Building Center for States

Hear participants share their perspectives, experiences, and expertise on learning how to honor differences while working in child welfare. The discussion centers on ways that honoring differences fosters a sense of belonging in teams and promotes psychological safety and benefits of maintaining and building healthy and supportive relationships.

Child welfare agency professionals and others can use this podcast as an opportunity to reflect on their own practices and learn concrete strategies to help build psychological safety and effectively honor differences while working on child welfare teams.

This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, Pandora, and SoundCloud.

This podcast episode offers a deeper dive into the harmful effects of not having strong and supportive relationships, strategies for building trust, and coming to love ourselves. The participants make connections between navigating one’s their personal healing journeys and personal trauma, discuss how to foster a sense of psychological safety while working toward personal healing, and consider ways to build healthy and supportive relationships as part of a healing process.

Child welfare professionals and others can use this podcast as an opportunity to learn concrete strategies for building a psychologically safe space that welcomes personal healing and growth and reflect on their own experiences.

This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, Pandora, and SoundCloud

The discussion in this episode includes topics such as reconciling with people in your past, building new relationships, and working toward personal healing and mental health while working in and out of child welfare. Participants make connections between navigating one’s own healing journey and personal trauma and building supportive relationships as a part of the healing process.

Child welfare professionals and others can use this podcast as an opportunity to learn concrete strategies on better practices toward building a psychologically safety space that welcomes personal healing and growth and reflects on their own experiences.

This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, Pandora, and SoundCloud.

Join teams from Oklahoma and Indiana as they share updates in their FFPSA Title IV-E Prevention Program implementation journeys. In Episode 2, speakers share strategies for engaging young people and families in prevention program implementation, using collaborative approaches to systemic challenges, and sustaining prevention in the face of competing priorities.

https://capacity.childwelfare.gov/states/topics/ffpsa

Join teams from Oklahoma and Indiana as they share updates in their FFPSA Title IV-E Prevention Program implementation journeys. In Episode 1, speakers share implementation strategies, including cultural considerations for evidence-based programs and approaches to reduce disparities. They explore workforce challenges and offer advice for jurisdictions facing similar challenges.

https://capacity.childwelfare.gov/states/topics/ffpsa

Listen to Tony Parsons (Center for States Young Adult Consultant) and Angela Braxton (Center for States Family Consultant) as they discuss the importance of developing authentic partnerships, engaging families in and out of child welfare, and maintaining relationships with child welfare agencies.

With this podcast, child welfare professionals and partners can learn more about the importance of family engagement and can help teams build a shared understanding of foundational FALA concepts.

Learn about the actions and attitudes that make parents feel comfortable to sit at the table, contribute, and feel respected and how that engagement can really change a parent’s life. In Episode 4, co-host Jamie Brooks has a conversation about authentic engagement of parents with Mark Rolon, one of New Hampshire’s family leaders in child welfare, and Geraldo Pilarski, the administrator of New Hampshire’s Parent Partner Program. Share and discuss this episode with others to explore how authentic engagement of people with lived experience can benefit parents, agencies, and improve outcomes for families, children, and youth.

This podcast was created by the Capacity Building Center for States under Contract No. HHSP233201500071I, funded by the Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The opinions expressed by individuals quoted do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the Children’s Bureau.

​​Learn about building trust intentionally by listening to and considering the differing and individual needs of parents, foster families, kinship families, and youth. Co-host Tony Parsons talks about sharing power and the slow process of system change with Judy Tudor, Assistant Director of Clark County Department of Children and Family Services, and Madison Sandoval-Lunn, the Center’s Family and Youth Empowerment Program Area Manager. This is the second part of their hour-long conversation started in Episode 2. Share and discuss these episodes with others to explore how deeper engagement of people with lived experience can improve child welfare policy and practice for better family, children, and youth outcomes.​

This podcast was created by the Capacity Building Center for States under Contract No. HHSP233201500071I, funded by the Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The opinions expressed by individuals quoted do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the Children’s Bureau.

​​Learn how welcoming change, listening to people with lived experience, and sharing the workload can help to develop and empower young leaders and improve the child welfare system. Co-host Tony Parsons talks with Judy Tudor, Assistant Director of Clark County Department of Children and Family Services, and Madison Sandoval-Lunn, the Center’s Family and Youth Empowerment Program Area Manager about sharing power by recognizing and acknowledging one’s own power and the power in others, and how they have done it throughout their careers. This is the first part of their hour-long conversation continued in Episode 3. Share and discuss these episodes with others to explore how deeper engagement of people with lived experience can improve child welfare policy and practice for better family, children, and youth outcomes.

This podcast was created by the Capacity Building Center for States under Contract No. HHSP233201500071I, funded by the Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The opinions expressed by individuals quoted do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the Children’s Bureau.

This initial episode introduces the series cohosts, lived experience consultants for the Capacity Building Center for States Tony Parsons and Jamie Brooks, as they talk about their own experiences, their hopes for the series, and the meaning behind commonly used terms like “lived experience,” “lived expertise,” and “sharing power.” Discuss this episode with others to come to a common understanding of the concepts essential to sharing power in child welfare.

This podcast was created by the Capacity Building Center for States under Contract No. HHSP233201500071I, funded by the Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The opinions expressed by individuals quoted do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the Children’s Bureau.