We know raising a child takes a village, but with rising social isolation, it can be harder than ever. Meanwhile, we know that social support is essential topromoting child safety and family wellbeing - a key factor in preventing child abuse. Still, when a child is removed from the home, child welfare-involvedfamilies may face challenges in building and maintaining their village. Shared parenting is an intentional practice approach to help families maintainrelationships and expand social support during and after child removal. In this training we will discuss how to conceptualize and operationalize sharedparenting to enhance social support for child welfare-involved families. Though often confused with coparenting, shared parenting is a way that kinshipcaregivers or foster parents can collaborate with parents to promote normalcy, share knowledge, enhance parenting skills, and maintain familyconnections. Participants in this continuing education class will leave with a broader understanding of how shared parenting can be implemented in avariety of families with different strengths and needs. Practice approaches such as writing shared parenting agreements and developing social supportmaps will be reviewed in the course. Finally, a panel of practitioners involved in implementing shared parenting will share their experiences.