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Explore how caseworkers, supervisors, and stakeholders can use data and feedback to improve child welfare practice. 

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Explore how child welfare leaders and decision makers can communicate data effectively. 

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Learn about key considerations to sustain research and evaluation partnerships with people with lived expertise and minimize harm. 

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Explore additional resources to learn about key considerations to sustain research and evaluation partnerships with people with lived expertise and minimize harm. 

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Explore how having access to the right information at the right time can improve assessment and decision-making at the child/family level, and how aggregate data can be used to support system improvements. 

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Explore how to use human resources data to address worker turnover with guides, resources, and videos from the Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development.

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Discover strategies for using data to build evidence, engage youth, families, and other partners, and move toward racial equity in child welfare. ​

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Listen to Indiana’s child welfare partners talk about making the shift to an upstream approach to prevention services possible in this short podcast. 

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Engage staff and partners with activities in this guide to start a dialogue and create a vision for a more prevention-focused child welfare system.

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Hear practical advice about transforming partnerships from the team implementing a holistic prevention program in North Carolina in this short podcast.

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Listen to an attorney and a parent ally, both partners with Washington State’s child welfare system, explain how parent partner programs are essential to prevention services.

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Use the guide and digital stories from this library with teams and individuals to advocate, inspire, support, recruit, train, and coach towards a better child welfare system. 

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Discover how data sharing can improve the child welfare court system.

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Discover strategies for partnering with noncustodial fathers and paternal family members in child welfare. 

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Explore additional resources to discover strategies for partnering with noncustodial fathers and paternal family members in child welfare.