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Building Capacity to Address Common Challenges

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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Building Capacity to Manage Change and Improve Child Welfare Practice

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

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Building Our Child Welfare System Together Infographic

Browse the themes and key takeaways from the How We Partner With the Community to Improve Service Options podcast series.

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Capacity Building for Innovation in Child Welfare

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

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CFSR Connections and Integration Tool

Reflect on past results to inform plans for future improvements.

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Change and Implementation in Practice: Teaming Worksheets

Consider whose perspectives are represented on your team. 

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Change and Implementation in Practice: Readiness Assessment Tool

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

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Change and Implementation Prevention Planning Crosswalk

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

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Closing Remarks From Aysha E. Schomburg, Associate Commissioner, Children’s Bureau 

Learn about the Children’s Bureau’s commitment to racial and other equity in its work and the actions the Children’s Bureau is taking to advance racial equity in child welfare. 

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Co-Creating Equitable Child Welfare Policies and Practice 

Discover strategies for co-creating and sharing power with youth and families in child welfare.

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Congregate Care in the Age of Family First: Family Engagement

Access strategies to better understand and implement the family engagement requirements of the FFPSA.

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Culturally Responsive Engagement and Partnership 

Learn about the values of cultural competence, cultural humility, and cultural safety, and how to implement them at a child welfare agency.  

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CWVE 2021 Session 1A Presentation

Use this presentation to follow along with the speakers as you watch the 2021 Child Welfare Virtual Expo Session 1 webinar, Understanding the Past to Build a New Future: Advancing Racial Equity for Children, Youth, and Families.

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​CWVE 2021 Session 2 Presentation

Use this presentation to follow along with the speakers as you watch the 2021 Child Welfare Virtual Expo Session 2 webinar, Using Data and Evaluation to Advance Racial Equity in Child Welfare.

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CWVE 2021 Session 2A Presentation

​Use this presentation to follow along with the speakers as you watch the 2021 Child Welfare Virtual Expo Session 2A webinar, “We See It, We Know It, and Now We Must Do Something About It”: Working Together to Reduce Inequity.