The manual combines research and guidance on best practices in family empowerment with the evolving field of implementation science. The manual also reinforces and expands on concepts introduced in the Center for States’ Family Empowerment and Leadership Academy (FELA).

Explore the process of transitioning to a prevention-focused child welfare system from several perspectives, including those of a mother and son with lived experience and leaders who set the tone and direction for putting families at the center of child welfare work.

 Watch as staff from the Fairfax County (Virginia) Department of Family Services share their journey from development to implementation of a clinical supervision program.

A look at strategies, initiatives, and frameworks that infuse racial equity into everyday operations in the child welfare system.

Hear about strategies for authentically partnering with youth, young adults, Tribes, families, and communities of color to inform and improve child welfare research, practice, and policy.

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

Learn about the challenges faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) families involved with the child welfare system and ways to help them.

Learn how to create an agency organizational culture that is inclusive and knowledgeable about the unique needs of LGBTQ children, youth, and families.

Explores the implementation planning task of developing strategies to build capacity for intervention implementation at a child welfare agency.

Focuses on planning for capacity building by exploring the task of developing strategies to strengthen motivation among child welfare staff and stakeholders for implementing an intervention.

Examines the task of building work plan activities to get the intervention ready before implementation begins.

Provides an overview of essential functions for preparing for implementation, planning for capacity building, and developing an implementation plan. The video also considers how tasks work together to support change efforts.

Presents information on the task of building the work plan activities to get the agency ready before implementation begins.

Explores the planning tasks of outlining implementation plan elements, identifying sources, and considering the context of agency implementation planning.

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.