Resource Library

This guide is designed to support administrative leaders in states and other jurisdictions in using data to assess and identify ways to improve their service array.

Explore the supportive relationship between a youth and her attorney.

Discover how to examine and drill down into state data to build understanding of what’s happening in your child welfare system.

Reveals how advocating for youth makes a difference in system change and in the advocates’ own lives. The Director of Policy and Advocacy at NMCAN and a youth advocate talk about their shared experience in testifying as expert witnesses for state legislative committees and how it created a strong bond between them.

Explore how frontline child welfare professionals can use data and evidence in their everyday practice. 

Explore how legal and judicial professionals can use data and evidence in their everyday practice. 

Explore how child welfare leaders, managers, and supervisors can motivate their staff to use data and evidence in their everyday practice. 

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. 

Learn about the importance of successful collaboration and engagement for implementing prevention-focused systems.

Reflect on past results to inform plans for future improvements.

Watch the Change and Implementation in Practice: Overview video to learn how key steps, tasks, and concepts fit together to support your agency’s change initiatives. 

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

Better understand your state’s performance on statewide data indicators related to the safety and permanency of children served by the child welfare system. 

Learn how to engage young people and families with lived expertise in the CFSR process at a child welfare agency. 

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