CQI Training Academy: Using Data to Implement Change Handbook

Build a common understanding of Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) best practices and learn how your CQI team can apply those practices as your agency works to strengthen families, deliver equitable services, and build more resilient communities.

Publication year: 2022
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Capacity Building Center for States

Description

New to CQI? Find detailed information for each step in the CQI process. 

Do you need to improve your CQI knowledge? Explore questions to help individuals and teams process, discuss, and apply concepts.

This comprehensive handbook is part of an interactive, self-paced e-learning course, CQI Training Academy: Using Data to Implement Change. This course will help you:

  • Learn how CQI processes can be used to solve problems and support improved outcomes.  
  • Understand the components of an effective systematic CQI process
  • Determine how to frame questions to help with data analysis. 
  • Guide you on how to research a solution, build a theory of change, and adapt or develop solutions. 

Interested in learning more about the training? Create a free account or log in to CapLEARN.  
 

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Capacity Building Center for States. (2022). CQI training academy: Using data to implement change handbook. Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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