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

Identify data sources to explore service array and resource development.

Identify data sources to explore functioning of staff and provider training.

Identify data sources to explore agency responsiveness to the community.

Examine the Promoting Safe and Stable Families Program's purpose, objectives, history, funding, and requirements. 

Identify data sources to explore how well your state’s quality assurance system is functioning.

Identify data sources to explore how well your state’s statewide information system is functioning.

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

Find out where evidence-based programs and services are being implemented to prevent children from entering foster care.

Review the steps for running the CFSR Round 4 SPSS syntax to calculate observed performance on statewide data indicators. 

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

Learn why the Indian Child Welfare Act and the historical trauma Indigenous people have experienced are important to understand when working with Indigenous families. 

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. 

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

Hear practical advice about transforming partnerships from the team implementing a holistic prevention program in North Carolina in this short podcast.