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Explore considerations for testing, piloting, and staging new programs and practices with attention to equity and inclusion. 

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Explore considerations for selecting, designing, and adapting effective and equitable interventions. 

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Explore considerations for convening a diverse team of partners, including people with lived expertise, to support equitable change and implementation efforts.

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Explore considerations for monitoring and evaluating new interventions and applying findings to make adjustments aligned with equity and inclusion. 

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Explore considerations for equitable, inclusive, and data-driven problem exploration.

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Explore considerations for assessing readiness as part of an equitable and inclusive change and implementation process. 

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Explore considerations for collaboratively developing an equitable theory of change.

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Identifies the final three steps in the problem exploration process and strategies that can help with analyzing data, root causes and contributing factors of problems, and common mistakes to avoid in problem exploration.

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Summarizes the change and implementation process and provides an overview of the Change and Implementation in Practice series briefs, “how to” guides that explain key steps and tasks in the process.

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Explores the fifth task of team building: guiding the change process by creating a detailed, comprehensive work plan based on the team charter that organizes the work through each step of the change and implementation process.

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Learn how to collect, analyze, and use data about the implementation and outcomes of a program or other intervention.

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Explores the fifth task of exploring possible root causes and using data to validate them. Taking time to revisit data, helps teams align on true root cause(s) before moving towards possible solutions.

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Presents the second task, identifying a long-term outcome, and provides examples of how to apply strategies. Identifying a long-term outcome that is specific, achievable, and understandable helps teams establish a goal that is focused, feasible, and clear.

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Consider whose perspectives are represented on your team. 

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