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PDF

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

Publication Year 2023
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

Listen to an attorney and a parent ally, both partners with Washington State’s child welfare system, explain how parent partner programs are essential to prevention services.

Publication Year 2022
Podcast

Listen to Indiana’s child welfare partners talk about making the shift to an upstream approach to prevention services possible in this short podcast. 

Publication Year 2021
PDF

Helps child welfare leaders identify what they can do to advance their prevention vision and shows what they will see as that vision takes root.

Publication Year 2021
PDF

Engage staff and partners with activities in this guide to start a dialogue and create a vision for a more prevention-focused child welfare system.

Publication Year 2021
Infographic

The infographic provides a visual reference for the cultural shift needed to protect children through strengthening families.

Publication Year 2021
PDF

Read about the value of collaboration as the key to prevention, safety, and long-term stability for children and families.

Publication Year 2021
Video

Examines tasks of building capacity to implement the intervention in new locations or with new populations in a sustainable way and scaling up the intervention.

Publication Year 2019
Video

Describes the tasks of identifying sites and sequencing to have a plan for where to implement the intervention and how expansion of it should occur.

Publication Year 2019
Video

Explores the task of developing plans to stage and scale up an intervention for implementation on a larger scale in a sustainable way.

Publication Year 2019
Video

Explores the task of assessing the results of the pilot, reviewing progress, and making adjustments before large-scale implementation of an intervention.

Publication Year 2019
Video

Presents how to conduct pilot testing for a new intervention.

Publication Year 2019
Video

Describes how teams plan and develop strategies to identify and recruit pilot testing sites.

Publication Year 2019
Video

Examines how teams can determine an approach and develop a plan for pilot testing.

Publication Year 2019