Use this tool to help your child welfare agency develop a communication plan to support your change and implementation efforts. 

Complete this template to create, print, and share a communication plan for your change effort. 

Learn how implementation teams can assess readiness for change and implementation and support related planning.

Find the eligibility requirements of the Children’s Justice Act Grant and the roles and responsibilities of Grantees.

Get informed about creating normalcy for LGBTQ children and youth in foster care and browse relevant examples.

Identify data sources to explore your state’s system of foster and adoptive parent licensing, recruitment, and retention.

Examine a five-step framework that helps organizations promote youth engagement in normalcy conversations about the youth’s own care.

Explore the various aspects of the importance of normalcy for children and youth in care.

Discusses new software and technologies used in child welfare.

Learn how child welfare agencies can transfer select operations online and out of a central worksite.

Understand available technologies and best practices for holding virtual meetings.

Learn about State Liaison Officers, who they are, their roles, responsibilities, and the Center for States resources available to them.

Addressed developmentally appropriate services for youth in foster care and identified best practices for Federal support of States and territories in implementing provisions of the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (P.L. 113-183).

Explore the four thematic pillars necessary for organizational capacity that supports engagement with young people currently and formerly in foster care.

Learn the characteristics and results that describe the right people to engage youth and get guidance for recruiting, hiring, and retaining these employees.