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Helps child welfare agencies respond to the need to alter practice and communication routines when “normal” child welfare services have been disrupted and better prepare agencies for future disruptions

Publication Year 2020
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Learn how child welfare agencies can transfer select operations online and out of a central worksite.

Publication Year 2020
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Explore additional resources to learn actionable ways to engage in authentic, nonexploitative storytelling practices with people with lived experience and expertise.

Publication Year 2022
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Explore additional resources to learn actionable ways to engage in authentic, nonexploitative storytelling practices with people with lived experience and expertise.

Publication Year 2022
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Learn actionable ways to engage in authentic, nonexploitative storytelling practices with people with lived experience and expertise. 

Publication Year 2022
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Learn how child welfare organizations can create equity in the workforce. 

Publication Year 2022
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Use this resource to prompt discussion and adopt a change management approach  during the development of child welfare information systems.

Publication Year 2023
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Examine the benefits of engaging youth voice in practice, peer support, and system-level change.

Publication Year 2021
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Explore additional resources to learn how incorporating voices of lived experience can help improve child welfare services. 

Publication Year 2022
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Explores the tasks of determining the “big picture” objectives and scope of evaluation efforts and assessing the agency’s capacity to conduct rigorous fidelity assessments, formative evaluations, or summative evaluations.

Publication Year 2019
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Describes the task of analyzing costs to satisfy funding requirements; support decision-making around intervention selection, testing, and piloting; and plan for scaling up and sustainability.

Publication Year 2019
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Presents how teams can develop a visual logic model that shows inputs, activities, outputs, and outcomes needed for the evaluation plan in a structured format to guide the work.

Publication Year 2019
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Examines the tasks of sharing findings and recommendations to inform stakeholders of the implementation progress, guide decision-making about the future of the intervention, support advocating for resources, and expand the knowledge base.

Publication Year 2019
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Examines how teams can identify questions to help guide monitoring and evaluation, shape the data that are collected and analyzed, and support evaluation partners in developing research questions.

Publication Year 2019
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Explores the task of identifying, as a team, if an intervention is effective enough to spread, needs adjustment to improve, or should be discontinued if appropriate.

Publication Year 2019