These four practices provide practical guidance for creating court environments where children and youth are respected, prepared, and meaningfully involved in decisions that affect their lives.
Use court hearings as opportunities to build relationships with children and youth.
Create a child-and-youth-friendly court environment.
Create opportunities to engage children and youth between court hearings.
Partner with people who have lived experience to create a court process and an environment that promotes success.
Explore free training and practical resources designed specifically for judges, attorneys, CASA volunteers, and other court professionals.
Increase your knowledge and learn practical strategies for engaging children and youth throughout court proceedings through five self-paced modules designed specifically for judges, attorneys, CASA volunteers, and other court professionals.
Learn about the process undertaken to determine priorities for creating curricular content to train court personnel on how to authentically engage youth in permanency planning.
See how QIC-EY’s court training has improved knowledge, strengthened attitudes, and increased professionals’ confidence in authentically engaging children and youth throughout legal proceedings.
Satisfaction
Court personnel satisfaction with the training was high
Review evaluation results from more than 230 court professionals, highlighting how the training improved knowledge, shifted attitudes, and strengthened youth-centered court practice.
Describes the effects of a child welfare workforce training-and-coaching model on workers’ perceptions of individual and organizational capacity to engage youth in case/permanency planning.