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.

Discover how parent partner programs support family reunification by guiding and motivating parents into constructive interactions with the child welfare system and courts.

Explore innovative programs and strategies that child welfare professionals can use to support reunification and emphasize caregiver and parent voice.

Explore the Center’s Focused Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Services training curriculum and learn more about how it can be used to support a team’s CQI goals.

Read recent research on child welfare workforce management, including recruitment and retention, professional development, and organizational culture.

Explore the benefits of reunification and post-reunification supports and how these strategies help prevent reentry into foster care. 

Recorded webinar of youth with lived expertise and child and family serving agency leaders discussing strategies to support meaningful youth engagement and integrating family and youth voices at individual, practice, and system levels.

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

Use this brief to help your agency coordinate strategic and long-term planning, monitoring, and reporting processes—such as the Child and Family Services Plan (CFSP) and Child and Family Services Review (CFSR)—with agency continuous quality improvement (CQI).

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

Explore strategies to recruit and support caregivers, strengthen their voices, and work together with them to meet the needs of children and youth.

Learn how continuous quality improvement (CQI) processes can improve implementation fidelity and enhance program outcomes at a child welfare agency.