Child Welfare League of America (CWLA)

Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) Since 1920, we've worked to serve and support children, families, and communities who are vulnerable.

We have a few remaining spots left for our upcoming "How to Succeed Against Compassion Fatigue" Virtual Training. Join u...
06/11/2026

We have a few remaining spots left for our upcoming "How to Succeed Against Compassion Fatigue" Virtual Training. Join us!

Wednesday, July 8, 2026
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm ET
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/54y86rjb

The human services workforce is encountering many challenges related to recruitment, retention, and staff morale. A major factor contributing to these challenges is compassion fatigue – an unintended consequence of working in helping professions. External life factors can easily exacerbate commitment to day-to-day responsibilities, resulting in missed opportunities for support, and a lack of empathy for others.

Effective leadership practices, supervision skills, and support strategies can help prevent burnout and reduce staff turnover. Using CWLA’s "4A’s" framework, this training will focus on:
• Increasing Awareness of the many challenges and contributing factors that can create/exacerbate compassion fatigue in the workplace
• Acknowledging the complexity of these issues and the role supervisors can play in supporting self-evaluation and professional growth
• Identifying Actions supervisors and individual staff can take to create a positive work environment and promote psychological safety
• Discussing shared Accountability to empower and support staff with a proactive approach to reducing compassion fatigue and identifying measurable progress

From our latest issue of Children's Voice magazine:Contra Costa Health's First Hope program "assists families by providi...
06/09/2026

From our latest issue of Children's Voice magazine:

Contra Costa Health's First Hope program "assists families by providing coordinated early intervention for children, adolescents, and young adults experiencing early psychosis or identified as clinically high-risk. Receiving the 2026 CWLA Dr. Alexander Gralnick Award for outstanding service to children and adolescents experiencing early-onset schizophrenia and early psychosis affirms the team’s efforts and sends families a powerful message: Recovery is possible."

https://www.cwla.org/first-hope-early-support/

Celebrate Father’s Day with Happy Papas, a lyrical read-aloud by renowned children’s book author Kathleen T. Pelley that...
05/27/2026

Celebrate Father’s Day with Happy Papas, a lyrical read-aloud by renowned children’s book author Kathleen T. Pelley that pays tribute to the joys of fatherhood in the animal and human kingdoms.

Use the discount code Pubs50 to save 50% at checkout: https://tinyurl.com/cwlapapas

Charming illustrations by Mariya Prytula depict all the activities that bring joy to human and animal fathers and their babies over the course of a day: tumbling, imagining, playing, teaching, and more. But as the moon blooms and the fireflies flicker, what makes these papas happiest by far is simply spending time with, loving, and nurturing their little ones. Join these Happy Papas and their babies in ocean, jungle, savanna, sky, and beyond, and see how universal a father’s love can be. Happy Papas is the follow-up book to Pelley’s award-winning Happy Mamas (CWLA Press, 2016).

Training Opportunity: Strengthening Kinship Care: Traditions of Caring and Collaborating Model of Practice New Date Add...
05/26/2026

Training Opportunity:
Strengthening Kinship Care: Traditions of Caring and Collaborating Model of Practice

New Date Added!
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm ET

CWLA’s trauma-informed model of practice, Traditions of Caring and Collaborating, addresses the unique strengths and needs of kinship caregivers. This model of practice has guiding principles grounded in a caring and collaborating approach to protect and nurture children and strengthen families. The model is responsive to the needs and experiences of kinship caregivers recognizing the dynamics unique to the inherited role of being someone’s relative and the acquired role of volunteering to foster.

This training opportunity will share a historical perspective on kinship care and provide an overview for identifying areas of concern for kinship families and agency staff who work with them including legal, financial, family relationships, health and mental health, child behavior, fair and equal treatment, and more. It will also highlight the competencies needed to support kinship caregivers through phases of collaboration to address all aspects of child development and family support.

Learn more and register: https://tinyurl.com/5n7adsdu

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Our latest issue of Children's Voice magazine features articles on building workforce stability, community-based mental ...
05/12/2026

Our latest issue of Children's Voice magazine features articles on building workforce stability, community-based mental health approaches to youth violence prevention, early psychosis support for children and adolescents, and much more.

Explore here! https://www.cwla.org/childrens-voice/

May is National Foster Care Month, which aims to raise awareness about children and youth in foster care, their families...
05/12/2026

May is National Foster Care Month, which aims to raise awareness about children and youth in foster care, their families and caregivers, and other community members who help youth find permanency and stability.

Through the end of May, CWLA Press is offering a 50% discount on books related to foster caregiving. Use the code Pubs50 at checkout!

Explore our foster care books here! https://tinyurl.com/cwlafostercaremonth

CWLA will be on Capitol Hill tomorrow, 12th, along with several other organizations, supporting Foster Care Awareness Da...
05/12/2026

CWLA will be on Capitol Hill tomorrow, 12th, along with several other organizations, supporting Foster Care Awareness Day!

Hill staffers and others, please find and join us! 🌼

New from CWLA Press! "Collaborating with Faith Communities: Training Guide" utilizes the 2024 film “Sound of Hope: The S...
05/11/2026

New from CWLA Press!

"Collaborating with Faith Communities: Training Guide" utilizes the 2024 film “Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot” as a tool for child welfare professionals, universities (particularly those with Title IV-E programs), child-serving agencies, and faith communities to help improve outcomes for all children.

Solidly built on research, the training guide can be used as a tool for foster and adoptive family recruitment and retention, along with family support. In addition, it can be used by faith communities to support the entire mission of child welfare. When the training is led by credentialed facilitators, either in person or remotely, it can provide continuing education credits in social work. When the training is provided for a community (faith partners and public child welfare), it can assist in practical collaborative goal setting.

Grab your copy today! https://tinyurl.com/yus3wvc4

To learn more about the film “Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot”: https://www.peacetreeproductions.com/current-projects

We were delighted to recognize Congressman Danny K. Davis as the CWLA Congressional Champion for Children during the 202...
05/08/2026

We were delighted to recognize Congressman Danny K. Davis as the CWLA Congressional Champion for Children during the 2026 National Conference.

Congressman Davis has been a longstanding champion for children and families and an accomplished legislator on their behalf. CWLA has been proud to honor him over his years in Congress for his work across children's services, including kinship care, support for older youth, pandemic relief and student loan forgiveness, and supporting and protecting LGBTQIA+ youth and families.

The Congressman has established an incredible legacy of lifting up our nation's children through introducing and championing bipartisan child welfare legislation. It is our honor to recognize Congressman Davis's lifetime of dedicated service and celebrate him as one of CWLA's closest allies and greatest friends.

CWLA was thrilled to welcome Administration for Children and Families - ACF Assistant Secretary Alex Adams to the stage ...
05/07/2026

CWLA was thrilled to welcome Administration for Children and Families - ACF Assistant Secretary Alex Adams to the stage during the 2026 National Conference. Since his confirmation in October, AS Adams has used his role at ACF to prioritize improving outcomes for children and families involved in the child welfare system. His remarks outlined his successes in Idaho and how those experiences are informing the goals and direction of the federal agency he now leads, such as implementing the "A Home for Every Child" initiative and seeking to simplify federal regulations and oversight.

CWLA has worked alongside every administration since our creation in 1920, and we are grateful to continue our partnership with AS Adams, Children's Bureau Associate Commissioner Ryan Hanlon, and the whole team at ACF to improve programs and policies for our nation's children and families.

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