AUTUMN KING CONSULTING
Practical Support for the Work Child Welfare Professionals Actually Do
Tools, training, and consulting for the people who keep children and families safe, and for the agencies that support them.
You already know what good practice looks like. What's often missing is the time, the systems, and the support to do it consistently. AKC creates resources you can put to work the same day.
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What do you need help with?
Pick the one that sounds most like today. You can always come back.
"I need to get my workday under control."
Practical tools and a workday system for competing demands, follow-up, and getting your evening back.
"I want to use AI more confidently and responsibly."
Real prompts and clear guardrails: no case data, your judgment first.
"I'm responsible for supervising other people."
A practical leadership program for the situations supervisors actually face.
"My agency needs stronger workforce training."
Structured training, individual learner accounts, completion tracking, and certificates.
"I need personalized professional or strategic support."
One-on-one coaching and consulting for your specific situation.
WHY AKC
Knowing what to do and having a way to do it are two different things
Child welfare work asks a lot of people. Professionals are often handed complex responsibilities without always being given the systems, preparation, or support to match. AKC closes that gap with resources designed around the real workday.
- Built from the work. Visits, court, documentation, interruptions, and follow-up are the starting point, not an afterthought.
- Ready to use. Every resource ends in something you can do, not only something you now know.
- Respectful of your expertise. You are a professional. These tools support your judgment; they don't replace it.
- Responsible by design. Confidentiality, accuracy, and professional standards come first, including in everything about AI.
WAYS TO WORK WITH AKC
Three pathways, one standard of practical support
FOR PROFESSIONALS
Help me do my work better
Toolkits, workday systems, AI guidance, and coaching for the demands of a real caseload.
FOR SUPERVISORS AND LEADERS
Help me lead better
Practical supervisor development and one-on-one leadership support.
FOR AGENCIES
Help us build better systems
Workforce training through the Child Welfare Workforce Institute, plus consulting for organizations.
DR. KING SAYS
"Good practice isn't only about what you know. It's about whether your day leaves you room to do it. My work is about building that room."
Dr. Autumn King, DSW
Founder, Autumn King Consulting
Educator, child welfare professional, and trainer with one decade in foster care, social work education, and training.
Read Dr. King's StoryFEATURED PROGRAM · FOR SUPERVISORS
Leading Where It's Hard™
Practical supervisor development for the situations you actually face.
Supervising in child welfare means holding people accountable, coaching instead of carrying everything, documenting decisions, managing up, and protecting your team through the hardest moments. This self-paced program gives you tools for each of those, organized around three leadership lenses: educational, administrative, and supportive.
4 modules · 20 short video lessons · fillable workbooks · certificate of completion · self-paced
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FREE RESOURCES
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FOR AGENCIES AND ORGANIZATIONS
Training your whole team shouldn't be the hardest part of your job
The Child Welfare Workforce Institute gives your agency structured, practical training with individual learner accounts, completion tracking, and certificates staff keep for their personnel files. It's built for California foster family agencies (FFAs) and short-term residential therapeutic programs (STRTPs), and it's paired with consulting when you need help with the bigger picture.
- New-hire foundations through annual and recurring training
- One login per learner, with certificates on completion
- Practical content staff can use on the job
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