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PDF

Use this guide for tips, and strategies concerning the critical role leadership plays in creating and sustaining positive organizational culture.

Publication Year 2019
Video

Explore ways that jurisdictions can integrate strategies to promote equity in continuous quality improvement (CQI) and evaluation efforts. 

Publication Year 2021
PDF

Learn effective strategies to collect, analyze, and use data related to caseworker visits.

Publication Year 2017
Podcast

Listen to a judge and a child welfare agency leader discuss the challenges, achievements, and strategies of the Tompkins County Family Treatment Court. This longstanding collaboration between the child welfare, substance use treatment, and judicial systems has been steadily growing its Family Treatment Court Team and improving outcomes for families since 2001.

Publication Year 2020
Webinar

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

Publication Year 2015
Webinar

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

Publication Year 2022
Webinar

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.

Publication Year 2016
PDF

Explore the types of simulation training available, the benefits, costs, and other considerations, when setting up a simulation training program.

Publication Year 2020
Webinar

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

Publication Year 2022
PDF

Browse a list of organizations that offer training activities with defined learning objectives, including self-paced e-learnings, webinars, or videos.

Publication Year 2021
PDF

Learn to prepare transgender children and youth for court and support them in the courtroom.

Publication Year 2021
PDF

Get an overview of the issues related to the physical and emotional safety of child welfare workers.

Publication Year 2017
PDF

Learn a research-informed framework for agencies to explore implementation of CQI systems across seven areas, including leadership support and modeling, staff and stakeholder engagement, communication, administrative structure, use of quality data, case record review process, and application of CQI findings.

Publication Year 2018
Webinar

Learn how continuous quality improvement (CQI) processes can improve implementation fidelity and enhance program outcomes at a child welfare agency.

Publication Year 2015
Video

Discover how data sharing can improve the child welfare court system.

Publication Year 2021