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Building Capacity to Manage Change and Improve Child Welfare Practice

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

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Capacity Building Collaborative Video

Learn about the Collaborative and the work it does with agencies, Tribes, and courts to build capacity.

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Child Welfare Capacity Building Collaborative

Understand the principles underlying service provisioning for the Collaborative, in addition to goals, audiences, objectives, and examples.

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Child Welfare Organizational Capacities

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

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National Foster Care Month 2023 Virtual Event

Learn strategies to address the mental health needs of children, young people, and families.

Webinar

Protective Capacities and Protective Factors: Common Ground for Protecting Children and Strengthening Families Recorded Webinar

Explore existing frameworks for protective capacities and protective factors and learn how to use them together for better prevention.

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Protective Factors and Protective Capacities: Common Ground for Protecting Children and Strengthening Families [Infographic]

Review the protective capacities and protective factors frameworks used to assess, intervene, and serve families.

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Safety Decision-Making: Using Protective Capacities and Protective Factors

Explore insights on using protective capacities and protective factors to build a continuum of practice that extends from safety to strength-building. 

Podcast

Shifting to a Family-Focused Organizational Culture: Episode 4

Explore a family-focused program that embodies many of the changes that Kentucky wants to see throughout its child welfare system in this podcast. The START, program demonstrates a shift in organizational culture to focus on family and serves as an example of a truly collaborative team that uses early intervention and a shared decision-making model to work with families.