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PDF

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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Learn how to support LGBTQIA2S+ children and young people at a child welfare agency.

Publication Year 2024
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Find meaningful and actionable connections among your agency’s strategic planning, review, and CQI efforts using this toolkit.

Publication Year 2024
PDF

Use this resource to prompt discussion and adopt a change management approach  during the development of child welfare information systems.

Publication Year 2023
Video

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

Publication Year 2023
PDF

Explore additional resources to learn how to accurately and safely collecting data on LGBTQIA2S+ youth and young adults.

Publication Year 2023
Video

Learn strategies for accurately and safely collecting data on LGBTQIA2S+ youth and young adults.

Publication Year 2022
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Use this brief to explore actionable strategies for meaningful partner engagement in child welfare agency strategic planning, monitoring, and review processes.

Publication Year 2022
Webinar

Hear about the youth-led projects of the Division X Technical Assistance project in fiscal year 2022.

Publication Year 2022
Webinar

Learn about the practice and systemic changes Hawaii, Indiana, and Westchester County, NY, made in partnership with their youth and young adult partners.

Publication Year 2022
Video

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. 

Publication Year 2022
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Build a common understanding of Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) best practices and learn how your CQI team can apply those practices as your agency works to strengthen families, deliver equitable services, and build more resilient communities.

Publication Year 2022
Podcast

Listen to an attorney and a parent ally, both partners with Washington State’s child welfare system, explain how parent partner programs are essential to prevention services.

Publication Year 2022
Podcast

Listen to Indiana’s child welfare partners talk about making the shift to an upstream approach to prevention services possible in this short podcast. 

Publication Year 2021
Podcast

Hear practical advice about transforming partnerships from the team implementing a holistic prevention program in North Carolina in this short podcast.

Publication Year 2021