Safely Reducing the Use of Congregate Care: Deciding What to Implement to Achieve Successful Change

Summarizes the process of choosing an intervention for a child welfare change and implementation process. This webinar provides an overview of how an agency might facilitate the process of researching and comparing potential solutions, designing a new intervention, or adapting an existing intervention to suit agency conditions and includes stories from the field on what choosing an intervention looks like in practice.

Publication year: 2018

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Capacity Building Center for States

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This webinar provides an overview of how to research and select an effective intervention to address the root cause of a problem or identified need. The recorded webinar Deciding What to Implement to Achieve Successful Change includes examples from the field about overcoming challenges in researching evidence-supported interventions. Presenters demonstrate how an agency might use a structured approach to research solutions to address an identified problem, and then select, adapt, or design an intervention to implement.

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Intervention Selection and Design/Adaptation Video Series

Function 1: Research Possible Intervention Options

Function 2: Assess Evidence, Fit, and Feasibility of Possible Interventions

Function 3: Determine Whether Interventions Are Well Defined (Usable and Transferrable)

Function 4: Decide to Replicate or Adapt an Existing Intervention or Design a New One

Function 5: Define the Intervention

Function 6: Develop a proposal

Function 7A: Operationalize Core Components

Function 7B: Adapt or Develop Practice Profiles

Suggested Citation

Capacity Building Center for States (2018). Safely Reducing the Use of Congregate Care: Deciding What to Implement to Achieve Successful Change. Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Intervention Selection and Design/Adaptation Resources Webinar Discussion and Activity Guide

Gather your staff to watch the “Deciding What to Implement to Achieve Successful Change” webinar to learn about how a structured approach to selecting an effective intervention can help your agency evaluate solutions to identified problems or needs and achieve goals for change. Then, use this guide to facilitate discussions and lead your team to move learning into action.

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Intervention Selection and Design/Adaptation Resources Video Workbook

This workbook and this video series are part of a collection of resources designed to help child welfare agency leaders, managers, and teams select, adapt, or design an intervention to address an identified problem. Use this workbook to further your understanding of concepts and prepare to move learning into action with your team.

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