Learn how implementation teams can assess readiness for change and implementation and support related planning.

Use this tool to help your child welfare agency develop a communication plan to support your change and implementation efforts. 

Watch the Change and Implementation in Practice: Overview video to learn how key steps, tasks, and concepts fit together to support your agency’s change initiatives. 

Explores the first task of how to gather information on the problem statement, root cause(s), and target population and provides examples of how to apply strategies.

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.

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.

Presents the sixth and final task, isolating the root cause or causes to address. By isolating, or selecting, the root cause or causes to address as part of a change initiative, teams are able to consider feasible solutions to address the problem.

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

Consider whose perspectives are represented on your team. 

Explores the first task of team building: identifying the team’s purpose by developing mission goals and objectives. This module helps the team write a mission statement as part of a change and implementation process at a child welfare agency.

Use this crosswalk to start thinking concretely about prevention planning as a change and implementation process. 

Better understand your state’s performance on statewide data indicators related to the safety and permanency of children served by the child welfare system. 

Understand the CFSR statewide data indicators, their use in program improvement efforts, and performance calculation tools.

Learn how to engage young people and families with lived expertise in the CFSR process at a child welfare agency. 

This manual examines the roles and responsibilities of child protective services (CPS) workers. It describes the purposes, key decisions, and issues of each stage of the CPS process and strategies for casework supervision, training, and support.