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Learn about the practice and systemic changes Hawaii, Indiana, and Westchester County, NY, made in partnership with their youth and young adult partners.

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Discover the key components of the Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Training Academy.

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​Learn from people with lived experience about the impact of kinship care on children in the child welfare system.

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Watch this video to learn how community-based partnerships strengthen families and see what jurisdictions are doing to build lines of collaboration and trust.

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Hear about the youth-led projects of the Division X Technical Assistance project in fiscal year 2022.

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Learn about research and practice insights for implementing evidence-based practices in child welfare systems.

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Explore the practical application of implementation science in child welfare.

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Get practical information about supporting coordinated strategic and long-term planning.

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Explore the Center’s Focused Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Services training curriculum and learn more about how it can be used to support a team’s CQI goals.

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See how staff can boost their knowledge and skills for engaging families, community providers, and others.

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Build skills in community engagement in quality improvement and enhanced data exploration. 

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Learn sound methods for integrating a focus on race equity in data analysis and CQI. 

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Explore how child welfare agencies, legal and judicial stakeholders, prevention partners, and communities can work together to build prevention-focused systems, starting with jurisdictions' 2020–24 Child and Family Services Plans (CFSPs). 

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​​Examine how implementation science principles can be applied to decisions about staging and scaling up new programs and practices at a child welfare agency.​ 

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This recorded webinar includes examples from the field about how agencies have coordinated program monitoring, fidelity assessment, formative evaluation, and summative evaluation activities and used strategies for developing and implementing an evaluation plan.