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Identify data sources to explore agency responsiveness to the community.

Publication Year 2023
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This video highlights the story of a therapeutic foster care social worker in North Carolina and how her own experience in kinship care helps her connect with kinship caregivers and engage families.

Publication Year 2022
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Learn about Child Welfare Capacity Building Collaborative's evidence-informed approach to the change and implementation process.

Publication Year 2015
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Learn about the Collaborative and the work it does with agencies, Tribes, and courts to build capacity.

Publication Year 2016
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Identify data sources to explore how well your state’s case review system is functioning.

Publication Year 2023
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Use this tool to help your child welfare agency develop a communication plan to support your change and implementation efforts. 

Publication Year 2024
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Complete this template to create, print, and share a communication plan for your change effort. 

Publication Year 2024
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Learn how implementation teams can assess readiness for change and implementation and support related planning.

Publication Year 2019
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Understand the principles underlying service provisioning for the Collaborative, in addition to goals, audiences, objectives, and examples.

Publication Year 2015
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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.

Publication Year 2015
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Understand the role of coaching in supporting workers, including coaching functions, effectiveness, models, and strategies.

Publication Year 2017
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Use this presentation to follow along with the speakers as you watch the 2021 CWVE Session 4 webinar, Intentional Inclusion: Creating Equity in the Workplace. 

Publication Year 2021
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Identify data sources to explore your state’s system of foster and adoptive parent licensing, recruitment, and retention.

Publication Year 2023
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Watch this recorded webcast to learn what it means to build a complete system of foster care as a support to families, not a substitute for parents.

Publication Year 2020
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This video highlights the story of a program manager and lead navigator for the Montana Kinship Navigator Program and how her own experience caring for a nephew helps her better support and connect with kinship caregivers and families.

Publication Year 2022