For Child Welfare Staff
Build the confidence and skills to authentically engage children and youth every day
Explore tools, activities, coaching, and real-world guidance designed for child welfare professionals working toward permanency.
Why Authentic Youth Engagement Matters in Practice
Children and youth deserve to be heard, respected, and actively involved in decisions that affect their lives. Authentic youth engagement helps child welfare professionals build trusting relationships, better understand each young person’s unique experiences and goals, and make more informed decisions that support safety, permanency, and well-being.
The Importance of Engaging Children and Youth
This video explores the reality youth face in child welfare and highlights how authentic engagement empowers them to reclaim their future.
The shift from doing for youth to partnering with them
Explore key messages, podcasts, and communication resources that guide the shift toward authentic, youth-centered engagement.
Build Your Skills
These tools, guides, and resources are designed to help you strengthen relationships, navigate real-world situations, and put authentic youth engagement into practice.
Tool Kit
Explore practical tools, worksheets, and resources that help you strengthen authentic youth engagement and apply key concepts in your day-to-day practice.
Coaching Guides
A tool for supervisors to reinforce authentic youth engagement practices, encourage reflection, and support ongoing learning for individuals and teams.
Clips & Tips
Watch short videos featuring practical tips, real-world examples, and quick strategies to strengthen authentic youth engagement in everyday child welfare practice.
Activities to Engage Children & Youth
Meaningful engagement happens through meaningful interactions. Explore ready-to-use activities designed to help you build trust, encourage communication, strengthen relationships, and create opportunities for children and youth to share their voices.
Activity Guidebook
Meaningful engagement happens through meaningful interactions. Explore ready-to-use activities designed to help you build trust, encourage communication, strengthen relationships, and create opportunities for children and youth to share their voices.
Demonstrating Impact
QIC-EY’s approach is grounded in evidence and continuously evaluated to measure its impact. Explore research findings and implementation outcomes that demonstrate how authentic youth engagement strengthens child welfare practice.
Workforce training evaluation results showed measurable impact on:
Impact of QIC-EY Training on the Workforce
Evaluation findings demonstrate how QIC-EY’s workforce training strengthens professionals’ knowledge, confidence, and skills to authentically engage children and youth in permanency Planning.
Bring QIC-EY Training to Your Team
Interested in bringing these tools and strategies to your agency? Encourage your leadership, supervisors, administrators or training coordinators to explore QIC-EY’s professional development opportunities for child welfare staff.