Discover how to examine and drill down into state data to build understanding of what’s happening in your child welfare system.

Explore how frontline child welfare professionals can use data and evidence in their everyday practice. 

Explore how child welfare leaders, managers, and supervisors can motivate their staff to use data and evidence in their everyday practice. 

Explore how child welfare professionals and organizations can build capacity for implementing the reasonable and prudent parent standard (RPPS) for children and youth in foster care. 

Learn about the importance of successful collaboration and engagement for implementing prevention-focused systems.

Reflect on past results to inform plans for future improvements.

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. 

Better understand your state’s performance on statewide data indicators related to the safety and permanency of children served by the child welfare system. 

Learn about the identified five dimensions of capacity, browse examples of each, and find out why each dimension is important to an organization.

Explore strategies for developing a comprehensive community prevention framework across all levels of prevention.

Explore the process of transitioning to a prevention-focused child welfare system from several perspectives, including those of a mother and son with lived experience and leaders who set the tone and direction for putting families at the center of child welfare work.

Gain a deeper understanding of the dynamics of effective collaboration and how to avoid pitfalls when implementing partnerships for primary prevention.

Explore and discuss state performance on CFSR statewide data indicators.

Explore the role of all staff as discerning consumers of evidence. Learn how data and information from children, youth, and families can be used to inform practice at every level of the organization. 

Learn to use the CFSR Round 4 SPSS syntax to calculate observed performance for a state on all or selected statewide data indicators.