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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.

Publication Year 2018
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Learn how to collect, analyze, and use data about the implementation and outcomes of a program or other intervention.

Publication Year 2019
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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.

Publication Year 2018
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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.

Publication Year 2018
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Consider whose perspectives are represented on your team. 

Publication Year 2024
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Explore how child welfare agency leaders, managers, teams, and stakeholders can understand and assess readiness.

Publication Year 2018
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Explores how the factors of motivation, general capacity, and intervention-specific capacity influence agency readiness for change. This video provides examples of and considerations for conducting readiness assessments.

Publication Year 2018
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Use this crosswalk to start thinking concretely about prevention planning as a change and implementation process. 

Publication Year 2021
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Understand the CFSR statewide data indicators, their use in program improvement efforts, and performance calculation tools.

Publication Year 2019
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Better understand your state’s performance on statewide data indicators related to the safety and permanency of children served by the child welfare system. 

Publication Year 2021
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Learn how to engage young people and families with lived expertise in the CFSR process at a child welfare agency. 

Publication Year 2022
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Use this tool to help meet QRTP requirements, clarify staff roles, and develop approaches to strengthen effective trauma-informed and healing-centered practices that truly support young people.

Publication Year 2023
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Develop a better understanding of customized congregate care and learn about implementing the FFPSA provisions in congregate care QRTP assessment.

Publication Year 2021
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Access strategies to better understand and implement the family engagement requirements of the FFPSA.

Publication Year 2021
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Learn solid strategies for understanding and implementing the trauma-informed care provisions of the FFPSA.

Publication Year 2021