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Explores the task of identifying, as a team, if an intervention is effective enough to spread, needs adjustment to improve, or should be discontinued if appropriate.

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Use the template and instructions provided to develop parent partner program manuals.

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Identify data sources to explore how well your state’s quality assurance system is functioning.

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Browse casework activities to use before, during, and after a caseworker visit with children, youth, and families.

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Learn how supervisors and program managers can assist child welfare caseworkers in conducting quality visits with parents.

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Explore resources related to Intentional Inclusion: Creating Equity in the Workplace video. 

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Identify data sources to explore service array and resource development.

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Identify data sources to explore functioning of staff and provider training.

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Identify data sources to explore how well your state’s statewide information system is functioning.

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

Webinar

​​Examine how implementation science principles can be applied to decisions about staging and scaling up new programs and practices at a child welfare agency.​ 

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Explore ways to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) children and youth.

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Explore coaching steps and tips supervisors can use to help workers strengthen skills and meet goals.

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Learn to prepare transgender children and youth for court and support them in the courtroom.

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Learn a research-informed framework for agencies to explore implementation of CQI systems across seven areas, including leadership support and modeling, staff and stakeholder engagement, communication, administrative structure, use of quality data, case record review process, and application of CQI findings.