The theme of the fourth annual Virtual Expo “Effectiveness in Child Welfare: Our Role in Improving the Lives of Children and Families”, will provide opportunities to learn about collecting and using data, feedback, and research in child welfare to assess performance, test assumptions, and determine how you can be most effective in your work. Whether learning as an individual or group, child welfare staff will have the opportunity to hear from experts, access valuable resources, connect new knowledge to their work, and identify goals for improving their own practice and the work of their teams. Data and evidence tell a story that needs to be communicated in clear and understandable ways to be useful for the child welfare workforce. This session explores the importance of building capacity and skills to effectively communicate and consume data at all levels of the workforce and across stakeholder groups. Participants will see examples of best and innovative practice in data communication, and learn how to incorporate data visualizations as a part of feedback loops and as a mechanism to support improvements. Participants will explore how telling a story can be a part of a child welfare system’s effort to create a culture of learning.