Use this discussion guide with CWVE 2023 videos to explore topics on workforce recruitment and retention, as well as access individual reflection exercises, discussion prompts, and team activities.

Listen to child welfare agency leaders in the District of Columbia talk about how they work with partners to use their different data lenses to understand the needs of families and to structure a set of services to best meet the full spectrum of needs. In Kentucky, child welfare agency leaders describe the process of finding the story behind the numbers to transform their system.

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

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

 Watch as staff from the Fairfax County (Virginia) Department of Family Services share their journey from development to implementation of a clinical supervision program.

In this introduction to the podcast series How We Partner With the Community to Improve Service Options, agency leaders talk about the changing culture of their organizations. Leaders from Kentucky discuss their Child Welfare Transformation initiative, three transformational goals, and culture of safety.

A look at strategies, initiatives, and frameworks that infuse racial equity into everyday operations in the child welfare system.

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

Presents information on the task of building the work plan activities to get the agency ready before implementation begins.

Explores the planning tasks of outlining implementation plan elements, identifying sources, and considering the context of agency implementation planning.

Explores the task of building the work plan activities to roll out the intervention and measure the quality of the implementation process, including any piloting or staging of the intervention.

Examines the implementation planning task of revisiting the teaming and leadership structures to help agencies facilitate the change and implementation process.

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

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

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