Kansas Strong for Children and Families Resources
Kansas Strong resources include research, scholarship, trainings, and other products that are developed by and for child and family advocates. We work in partnerships and collaborations with youth, birth parents, kin caregivers, child welfare professionals, the court and legal system, community-based service providers, and leaders across the state of Kansas. The materials on this page have been developed to support the full continuum of child welfare services, enhance agency and court/legal practices, and reduce systemic barriers.
KanCoach: Coaching for Child Welfare Practice
This presentation describes a statewide approach to implementing a skills-based coaching program for child welfare supervisors. In addition to building supervisors’ coaching skills, the program…
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KanCoach Fact Sheet
This fact sheet provides an overview of Kansas Strong's KanCoach coaching program. Coaching is a strategy spreading across child welfare agencies nationally as a key component of supervision with…
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Honoring family: Engaging Parent Partners in Strengthening a Child Welfare Coaching Program
Engaging parent partners, or those with lived experience in the child welfare system, can provide a unique perspective for developing new programs. This presentation shares parent partner input on…
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Discrimination, Disproportionality, and Disparity: Black families’ Experiences of Structural and Systemic Bias in Child Welfare
With guidance provided by a small council of Black community leaders and a steering committee of agency administrators and parent partners, we executed a qualitative…
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Collaborative Teaming and Planning to Support Selection of Innovations and Implementation Strategies
Kansas Strong for Children and Families Steering Committee collaborated across service systems to identify priority problem areas in child welfare. This storyboard shares results of quantitative…
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Child Welfare Professional's Orientation toward Child Saving versus Family Focus
This paper explores child welfare professionals’ values orientation toward child safety versus family preservation. We examined professionals ‘characteristics in relation to their values about the…
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Child Safety and Family Preservation: Investigating the Relationships between Tenure, Type of Employment, and Values Influencing Decision Making Among Child Welfare Professionals
This study examined child welfare professionals’ values orienting them more strongly toward child safety versus family preservation. Specifically, we examined the following research questions: (1…
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Change the WORLD Fact Sheet
Learn more about Change the WORLD, a Kansas Strong initiative taking action around racial disproportionality and disparities experienced by Black or African American children and families who are…
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Amplified: A Poetic Inquiry of Voices in Child Welfare
Few studies have examined outcomes of youth in foster care by centering their voices and the voices of the professionals working with them day-to-day. The primary research question for this poster…
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Adoption Tracking Tool: Creating Structures to Improve Cross-Sector Collaboration
This study evaluates the effectiveness of the Kansas Strong Adoption Tracking Tool (ATT) through surveys, focus groups and interviews with agency and court personnel from 6 pilot counties. ATT is…
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