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Explore this tip sheet to learn about child welfare agency and court responsibilities related to APPLA provisions and strategies to achieve permanency.
This guide is designed to support administrative leaders in states and other jurisdictions in using data to assess and identify ways to improve their service array.
This “Service Array Data Inventory Sample Worksheet” (Worksheet) is a companion tool to A Data-Driven Approach to Service Array Guide developed by the Capacity Building Center for States. To use the Worksheet, you can print it out and fill in the blank squares, or use the questions as a guide.
The Capacity Building Center for States (the Center) has identified the following resources as particularly helpful to child welfare agency decision-makers in understanding and building organizational knowledge and skills.
Use the activities in this tool to create a plan to replicate, adapt, or design an intervention to improve outcomes for children, young people, and families.
As Oklahoma Human Services (OKDHS) leaders began thinking about the opportunities afforded by the Family First Prevention Services Act (Family First), they wondered how they could develop a prevention plan that would not only be approved but would help them keep families from bumping into the child welfare system at all.
The California Office of Tribal Affairs’ practice is rooted in relationships: Not only relationships between staff, partners, and consultants, but also the state and Tribal government-to-government relationship that needs to exist for successful child welfare practice.
After extensive planning, Minnesota’s child welfare agency is on the threshold of full, statewide implementation of its revamped continuous quality improvement (CQI) system.