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Video

Watch the Change and Implementation in Practice: Overview video to learn how key steps, tasks, and concepts fit together to support your agency’s change initiatives. 

Publication Year 2022
Podcast

Meet the series cohosts as they talk about sharing lived expertise and power with child welfare agency leaders and staff.

Publication Year 2022
Podcast

Hear about the experiences of sharing power between a child welfare agency leader in Nevada and a young adult with lived expertise.

Publication Year 2022
Podcast

Hear how sharing power begins with building trusting relationships.

Publication Year 2022
PDF

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

Publication Year 2023
PDF

Use the template and instructions provided to develop parent partner program manuals.

Publication Year 2016
PDF

Use the activities in this tool to create a plan to replicate, adapt, or design an intervention to improve outcomes for children, young people, and families.

Publication Year 2024