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Explore considerations for selecting, designing, and adapting effective and equitable interventions. 

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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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Explore considerations for monitoring and evaluating new interventions and applying findings to make adjustments aligned with equity and inclusion. 

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Explore considerations for equitable, inclusive, and data-driven problem exploration.

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

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

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Consider whose perspectives are represented on your team. 

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Use this crosswalk to start thinking concretely about prevention planning as a change and implementation process. 

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Understand the principles underlying service provisioning for the Collaborative, in addition to goals, audiences, objectives, and examples.

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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.

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Shares Stephen’s story about being a community-based provider and policymaker in Florida, the need for laws that empower caregiver decision-making, creating Florida’s reasonable and prudent parent standard (RPPS), and the effect RPPS and normalcy laws can have on foster care.

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Get informed about creating normalcy for LGBTQ children and youth in foster care and browse relevant examples.

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Learn about normalcy for LGBTQ children and youth in foster care in the context of the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act (P.L. 113–183).

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Learn how to support LGBTQIA2S+ children and young people at a child welfare agency.