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About SYNCing Child Welfare

Built from lived experience inside the child welfare system — to bring clarity, connection, and trust.
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Our Origin Story

Who Created SYNCing Child Welfare?

Shanelle Dupree is a strategic connector with deep Midwestern roots. Born into a military family, she proudly claims Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Kansas as her homes. She later moved to Kansas for law school, where she met and married her law school sweetheart, Mark Dupree. Today, they are raising four active teenagers in the Kansas City area.
Faith is the thread that connects Shanelle’s life and work. She believes in transformation and in ensuring people have what they need to thrive. Her work focuses on explaining complex systems in clear, practical ways so people can move forward with confidence.

The Gap in the Child Welfare System

Why families and professionals are left navigating confusion

For nearly a decade, Shanelle represented families involved in foster care in many roles, including parents, youth as a Guardian ad Litem, juvenile attorney, grandparents, foster parents, and extended family members. Across every role, the same challenge appeared again and again—confusion.

Families were unsure where they fit, who the other players were, and how to navigate both the legal and social services systems. Parents were expected to move through a complex process without truly understanding what was happening or what their next step should be.

Building Clarity Inside the Child Welfare System

Practical orientation and training for parents and professionals

To address this gap, Shanelle brought an idea directly to the judges—an orientation class for parents involved in child welfare. The idea was embraced, and she taught this court-ordered class for nearly five years in one of the largest counties in Kansas. These classes provided parents with clarity, reduced anxiety, and helped them understand how to participate more effectively in their cases.
Parents often arrived upset that they had to attend but consistently left informed, grateful, and more confident in their understanding of the process. Seeing the impact of clarity, Shanelle also created orientation and training classes for caseworkers who were overwhelmed and facing high levels of burnout. Feedback confirmed these trainings helped clarify roles, reduce courtroom anxiety, and strengthen confidence in difficult situations.

Insights shaping statewide programs

Leading Across Child Welfare Systems

After leaving the courtroom, Shanelle was appointed by the Kansas Governor to serve as a regional director for the state’s social services agency. She managed resources across food assistance, vocational rehabilitation, prevention services, and foster care—deepening her understanding of how interconnected systems must work together to support families.
She later served as an executive director of a social service nonprofit committed to system-centered equity and led multiple initiatives focused on strengthening collaboration across organizations.

support for families and professionals

Simplifying Navigation in Child Welfare

Building on years of experience, Shanelle went on to create programs such as Skin DEEP: The History of Child Welfare by Race and ultimately SYNCing Child Welfare. The clarity she witnessed when parents and caseworkers finally understood the system became the foundation of this work.
SYNCing Child Welfare—Simplifying Your Navigation and Confusion in Child Welfare—addresses workforce burnout, difficult conversations, and the need to intentionally build trust with families and volunteers. Through clear frameworks, practical tools, and intentional connection, the program helps people navigate child welfare with greater confidence, coordination, and care.

Process

HOW IT WORKS

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Take the 360º Assessment

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Learn more about the program by emailing Click HERE

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Engage in the 360º Workshop for staff, volunteers, and caregivers

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Subscribe to the 360º Webinars for families, caregivers, and staff

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Organizations our founder, Shanelle Dupree has worked with previously

Our Trusted Partners

We proudly collaborate with leading child welfare organizations to support families, children, and communities. These partnerships help us provide better services, resources, and guidance for those who need it most.
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Best Reviews

Hear From Our Community

See what parents and caseworkers are saying about taking previous child welfare orientation classes created by our founder.
Parent attendee

“Great information! The speaker was wonderful.”

Parent attendee

“This class was very informational. This class was also done professionally.”

Parent attendee

“This class was very informational. This class was also done professionally.”

Parent attendee

“Class was very informational and well planned but wish that it was offered when *** first came into our lives. Class was professional and is going to help with our reintegration. Thank you.”

Parent attendee

“Thank you so very much for your class. Thank you for caring for the parents and children going through this process.”

Parent attendee

“This was a wonderful and informative class and I would recommend it, most definitely to anyone in my circumstances. Thank you.”

Parent attendee

“Best class I have ever attended during this entire process. Thank you so much!”

Parent attendee

“Thank you so much for presenting this information. It is very helpful and informative. I felt that I learned a lot and feel more confident in my understanding of the process.”

Caseworker attendee

“This training is very helpful to understanding the child in need of care process as well as the roles of everyone involved. I feel it creates a space for questions to be answered.”

Caseworker attendee

“This training has helped me understand what my role is in the courtroom. This has helped relieve some of the anxiety I had about going to court. Thanks for taking the time to do this training. The role playing helped a lot!”

Caseworker attendee

“The mock trial was a great idea a way to keep audience involved, also group discussion was awesome.”

Question Answer

Frequently Asked Question

Yes! SYNCing Child Welfare stands for Simplifying Your Navigation and Confusion in Child Welfare.

The program’s purpose is to simplify and connect systems in the family and child welfare ecosystem so staff, families, caregivers, and volunteers can reclaim their time and peace of mind.

An online and free assessment that shows where you fit on the family and child welfare map, accesses how you work with partners, gauges support and burnout, and readiness to partner and build trust with families.

The workshop lasts 2 hours and is hosted in person. Organizations or groups of individuals can host a workshop to expose participants to the 10 systems within the family and child welfare system, train on the framework “planning for partnership” and train on the framework “planning for pushback.” The purpose is to discovery opportunities to partner well and be supported well.

A series of webinars available anytime and live once a month specifically tailored for parents foster care involved, caregivers, and others who need their basic questions answered in order to navigate the family and child welfare system with clarity. The webinars provide a safe way for people to have their questions answered, understand other people’s roles in the system, and their power.

The 360º Assessment is free of charge. The 360º Workshop requires a one time investment cost, please email us for exact details and costs. The 360º Webinars is subscription based. Individuals can sign up for access to the webinars for $100.00 per month. Mid-sized Organizations can sign up for unlimited access to the webinars for $1,000.00 per month, and Large Organizations can sign up for unlimited access to the webinars for $1,500.00 per month.

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