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Explore considerations for assessing readiness as part of an equitable and inclusive change and implementation process. 

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Explore considerations for testing, piloting, and staging new programs and practices with attention to equity and inclusion. 

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

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Consider whose perspectives are represented on your team. 

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

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

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

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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.

Podcast

Listen to a judge and a child welfare agency leader discuss the challenges, achievements, and strategies of the Tompkins County Family Treatment Court. This longstanding collaboration between the child welfare, substance use treatment, and judicial systems has been steadily growing its Family Treatment Court Team and improving outcomes for families since 2001.

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Learn solid strategies for understanding and implementing the trauma-informed care provisions of the FFPSA.

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Listen to child welfare agency leaders in the District of Columbia, service providers, partners in community collaboratives, and sister agencies talk about how they coordinate service planning and delivery, are culturally responsive to the community, and provide seamless services to families.

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Find information about using collaborative practices and models across human service systems to better serve families dealing with co-occurring issues.

Podcast

Listen to child welfare agency leaders in the District of Columbia talk about how they work with partners to use their different data lenses to understand the needs of families and to structure a set of services to best meet the full spectrum of needs. In Kentucky, child welfare agency leaders describe the process of finding the story behind the numbers to transform their system.

Webinar

Hear about the youth-led projects of the Division X Technical Assistance project in fiscal year 2022.

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Hear how Division X Technical Assistance Targeted Assistance Projects (TAPs) helped child welfare agencies enhance policies and practices for youth and young adults.