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Explore considerations for monitoring and evaluating new interventions and applying findings to make adjustments aligned with equity and inclusion. 

Publication Year 2023
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Explore considerations for equitable, inclusive, and data-driven problem exploration.

Publication Year 2023
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Explore considerations for planning and building capacity for equitable implementation of new programs and practices. 

Publication Year 2023
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Explore considerations for convening a diverse team of partners, including people with lived expertise, to support equitable change and implementation efforts.

Publication Year 2023
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Explore considerations for collaboratively developing an equitable theory of change.

Publication Year 2023
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Explore considerations for selecting, designing, and adapting effective and equitable interventions. 

Publication Year 2023
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Explore information and strategies for advancing racial equity through problem exploration.

Publication Year 2023
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Consider whose perspectives are represented on your team. 

Publication Year 2024
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Learn how to engage young people and families with lived expertise in the CFSR process at a child welfare agency. 

Publication Year 2022
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Learn about the identified five dimensions of capacity, browse examples of each, and find out why each dimension is important to an organization.

Publication Year 2015
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Discover strategies for co-creating and sharing power with youth and families in child welfare.

Publication Year 2021
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See how coordination can improve identification, reporting, and services for youth who are victims or at risk of becoming victims of sex trafficking.

Publication Year 2015
Video

Shares Stephen’s story about being a community-based provider and policymaker in Florida, the need for laws that empower caregiver decision-making, creating Florida’s reasonable and prudent parent standard (RPPS), and the effect RPPS and normalcy laws can have on foster care.

Publication Year 2016
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Access strategies to better understand and implement the family engagement requirements of the FFPSA.

Publication Year 2021
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Learn about normalcy for LGBTQ children and youth in foster care in the context of the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (P.L. 113–183).

Publication Year 2016