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The Center for States provides research assistance and responds to information requests on building capacity in child welfare.

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Learn about quality contacts, why they are important, and how an agency can successfully implement them.

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Learn about the value of kinship placements when children and youth must live outside their birth parents’ homes. 

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Explore additional resources aimed at the needs of expecting and parenting teens in child welfare.

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Discover services and resources aimed at the needs of expecting and parenting teens in child welfare. 

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Learn about research and practice insights for implementing evidence-based practices in child welfare systems.

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Examine a five-step framework that helps organizations promote youth engagement in normalcy conversations about the youth’s own care.

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Learn to facilitate a normalcy conversation and to promote normal and developmentally appropriate experiences for youth in foster care.

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Provides information on the task of identifying communication and engagement activities described in the implementation work plan.

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Discusses the task of reviewing readiness assessment findings to plan for capacity building.

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Examines the tasks of consolidating and reviewing the implementation plan before completing and putting it in place.

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Explores the implementation planning task of developing strategies to build capacity for intervention implementation at a child welfare agency.

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Focuses on planning for capacity building by exploring the task of developing strategies to strengthen motivation among child welfare staff and stakeholders for implementing an intervention.

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Examines the task of building work plan activities to get the intervention ready before implementation begins.

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Provides an overview of essential functions for preparing for implementation, planning for capacity building, and developing an implementation plan. The video also considers how tasks work together to support change efforts.