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Explore promising practices in pregnancy, parenting, and prevention services and view practice examples, including evidence-based programs, in-home services, and specialized units.

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Read this resource to learn about direct financial assistance and emergency financial assistance available to young people.

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Build skills in community engagement in quality improvement and enhanced data exploration. 

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Explore strategies for redesigning the child welfare service array to meet the needs of youth and young adults currently and formerly in foster care.

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Explore additional resources to help effectively integrate lived experts into the child welfare workforce. 

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Discover ways to effectively integrate people with lived expertise into the child welfare workforce. 

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Explore additional resources for effectively integrating lived experts into the child welfare workforce. 

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​​Examine how implementation science principles can be applied to decisions about staging and scaling up new programs and practices at a child welfare agency.​ 

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Explore ways to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) children and youth.

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Learn a research-informed framework for agencies to explore implementation of CQI systems across seven areas, including leadership support and modeling, staff and stakeholder engagement, communication, administrative structure, use of quality data, case record review process, and application of CQI findings.

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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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Use the integrated Theory of Change video workbook to record your questions and ideas for changing practice, which you can then use to apply the theory of change development process at your agency.