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The Center for States provides research assistance and responds to information requests on building capacity in child welfare.

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Identify data sources to explore agency responsiveness to the community.

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Learn how Anntesha’s experience as a child living with her grandparents and later in foster care influenced her to become a relative caregiver to her niece and nephew and work as a kinship navigator. 

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Discover how to examine and drill down into state data to build understanding of what’s happening in your child welfare system.

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Explore how data reported in AFCARS about youth who run away from state custody can be used to inform interventions.

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

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

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Identify data sources to explore how well your state’s case review system is functioning.

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Learn about Catherine’s journey recovering from trauma and addiction to be successfully reunified with her daughter.

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Better understand your state’s performance on statewide data indicators related to the safety and permanency of children served by the child welfare system. 

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

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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.

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Explore ways that jurisdictions can integrate strategies to promote equity in continuous quality improvement (CQI) and evaluation efforts. 

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Get guidance for completing the CQI self-assessment instrument, see suggested sources for local assessment data, and learn to rate assessment results.

Webinar

Discover the key components of the Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Training Academy.

Webinar

​Learn from people with lived experience about the impact of kinship care on children in the child welfare system.