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PDF

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

Publication Year 2017
Video

Learn about Dezzie’s experience bonding with her newborn while embracing parenting classes and other agency supports in her journey to be reunified with her daughter.

Publication Year 2022
Video

Learn about the value of kinship placements when children and youth must live outside their birth parents’ homes. 

Publication Year 2022
Webinar

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

Publication Year 2015
PDF

Explore concepts, terms, and foundational information about psychological safety on child welfare teams.

Publication Year 2024
PDF

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

Publication Year 2017
Video

This video highlights the story of a program manager and lead navigator for the Montana Kinship Navigator Program and how her own experience caring for a nephew helps her better support and connect with kinship caregivers and families.

Publication Year 2022
Video

Provides information on the task of identifying communication and engagement activities described in the implementation work plan.

Publication Year 2019
Video

Discusses the task of reviewing readiness assessment findings to plan for capacity building.

Publication Year 2019
Video

Examines the tasks of consolidating and reviewing the implementation plan before completing and putting it in place.

Publication Year 2019
Video

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

Publication Year 2019
Video

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.

Publication Year 2019
Video

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

Publication Year 2019
Video

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.

Publication Year 2019
Video

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

Publication Year 2019