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Identify data sources to explore agency responsiveness to the community.

Publication Year 2023
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Use this tool with your prevention planning team to prepare for and tackle the adaptive challenges that many states face as they develop and implement prevention plans. 

Publication Year 2021
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Learn about Child Welfare Capacity Building Collaborative's evidence-informed approach to the change and implementation process.

Publication Year 2015
Webinar

Explore how child welfare professionals and organizations can build capacity for implementing the reasonable and prudent parent standard (RPPS) for children and youth in foster care. 

Publication Year 2016
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Examine current research and how best to build organizational capacity in five areas, and learn about possible challenges and solutions.

Publication Year 2018
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Identify data sources to explore how well your state’s case review system is functioning.

Publication Year 2023
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Learn how implementation teams can assess readiness for change and implementation and support related planning.

Publication Year 2019
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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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Learn about the identified five dimensions of capacity, browse examples of each, and find out why each dimension is important to an organization.

Publication Year 2015
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Learn about quality contacts, why they are important, and how an agency can successfully implement them.

Publication Year 2017
Webinar

Learn about research and practice insights for implementing evidence-based practices in child welfare systems.

Publication Year 2015
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Identify data sources to explore your state’s system of foster and adoptive parent licensing, recruitment, and retention.

Publication Year 2023
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Learn to facilitate a normalcy conversation and to promote normal and developmentally appropriate experiences for youth in foster care.

Publication Year 2017
Video

Explores the task of building the work plan activities to roll out the intervention and measure the quality of the implementation process, including any piloting or staging of the intervention.

Publication Year 2019
Video

Examines the implementation planning task of revisiting the teaming and leadership structures to help agencies facilitate the change and implementation process.

Publication Year 2019