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

Publication Year 2021
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Explore how frontline child welfare professionals can use data and evidence in their everyday practice. 

Publication Year 2021
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Learn about the importance of successful collaboration and engagement for implementing prevention-focused systems.

Publication Year 2021
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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
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Explore strategies for developing a comprehensive community prevention framework across all levels of prevention.

Publication Year 2021
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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.

Publication Year 2021
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Gain a deeper understanding of the dynamics of effective collaboration and how to avoid pitfalls when implementing partnerships for primary prevention.

Publication Year 2021
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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. 

Publication Year 2021
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Examines the implementation planning task of revisiting the teaming and leadership structures to help agencies facilitate the change and implementation process.

Publication Year 2019
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Provides information on the task of identifying communication and engagement activities described in the implementation work plan.

Publication Year 2019
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Discusses the task of reviewing readiness assessment findings to plan for capacity building.

Publication Year 2019
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Examines the tasks of consolidating and reviewing the implementation plan before completing and putting it in place.

Publication Year 2019
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Explores the implementation planning task of developing strategies to build capacity for intervention implementation at a child welfare agency.

Publication Year 2019
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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.

Publication Year 2019
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Examines the task of building work plan activities to get the intervention ready before implementation begins.

Publication Year 2019