Change and Implementation in Practice: Readiness Brief

Explore how child welfare agency leaders, managers, teams, and stakeholders can understand and assess readiness.

Publication year: 2018
Author:
Capacity Building Center for States

Description

Helps child welfare agency leaders, managers, teams, and stakeholders understand and assess readiness. The brief begins with background information, definitions, and research on readiness and then provides step-by-step approaches to explore readiness as part of a change and implementation process.

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Suggested Citation

Capacity Building Center for States. (2018). Change and implementation in practice: Readiness. Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Change and Implementation in Practice: Readiness Webinar

The readiness webinar summarizes the process of assessing agency readiness for a child welfare change and implementation process. It includes an overview of how an agency might facilitate the process of assessing readiness to put new programs and practices in place,as well as stories from the field on what assessing readiness looks like in practice.

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Readiness Video Workbook

This workbook is designed to support knowledge and skill development as you listen, reflect, and discuss what you have learned throughout the process.

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