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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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Use this guide for tips, and strategies concerning the critical role leadership plays in creating and sustaining positive organizational culture.

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Use this tool with your prevention planning team to prepare for and tackle the adaptive challenges that many states face as they develop and implement prevention plans. 

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Learn about Child Welfare Capacity Building Collaborative's evidence-informed approach to the change and implementation process.

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Watch a discussion on focusing on job-specific skills (instead of best practices culture), training in a virtual environment, and integrating racial equity across child welfare training.

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Examine current research and how best to build organizational capacity in five areas, and learn about possible challenges and solutions.

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

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

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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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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.

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

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

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

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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.