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Combine lived expertise with agency perspectives to better understand state child welfare data.

Publication Year 2024
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Use the activities in this tool to create a plan to replicate, adapt, or design an intervention to improve outcomes for children, young people, and families.

Publication Year 2024
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Consider whose perspectives are represented on your team. 

Publication Year 2024
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Learn strategies to address the mental health needs of children, young people, and families.

Publication Year 2023
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Explore information and strategies for advancing racial equity through problem exploration.

Publication Year 2023
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Explore considerations for monitoring and evaluating new interventions and applying findings to make adjustments aligned with equity and inclusion. 

Publication Year 2023
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Explore considerations for testing, piloting, and staging new programs and practices with attention to equity and inclusion. 

Publication Year 2023
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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.

Publication Year 2023
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Explore considerations for assessing readiness as part of an equitable and inclusive change and implementation process. 

Publication Year 2023
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Explore considerations for equitable, inclusive, and data-driven problem exploration.

Publication Year 2023
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Explore considerations for selecting, designing, and adapting effective and equitable interventions. 

Publication Year 2023
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Explore considerations for planning and building capacity for equitable implementation of new programs and practices. 

Publication Year 2023
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Explore considerations for collaboratively developing an equitable theory of change.

Publication Year 2023
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Set the groundwork for meaningful engagement of people with lived experience in the CFSR.

Publication Year 2023
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Learn about the range of practices comprising the continuum of youth engagement to youth empowerment.

Publication Year 2023