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The Center for States designs products, services, and learning experiences to increase understanding and awareness, and build knowledge and skills. The Center focuses its attention on developing products and resources on several core organizational and practice topics.

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Learn common CFSR terms and acronyms.

Publication Year 2024
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Combine lived expertise with agency perspectives to better understand state child welfare data.

Publication Year 2024
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Use this project management resource to plan for the development of a Program Improvement Plan (PIP). 

Publication Year 2024
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Learn how jurisdictions across the country respond to human trafficking cases and explore the latest developments in effective intervention.

Publication Year 2024
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Complete this template to create, print, and share a communication plan for your change effort. 

Publication Year 2024
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Use this tool to help your child welfare agency develop a communication plan to support your change and implementation efforts. 

Publication Year 2024
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Access this project management resource to plan for the CFSR Statewide Assessment. 

Publication Year 2024
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Find meaningful and actionable connections among your agency’s strategic planning, review, and CQI efforts using this toolkit.

Publication Year 2024
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Identify data sources to explore your state’s system of foster and adoptive parent licensing, recruitment, and retention.

Publication Year 2023
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Reflect on past results to inform plans for future improvements.

Publication Year 2022
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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. 

Publication Year 2022
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Recorded webinar of youth with lived expertise and child and family serving agency leaders discussing strategies to support meaningful youth engagement and integrating family and youth voices at individual, practice, and system levels.

Publication Year 2021
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Provides concise information on the organization of the Coping With Disasters and Strengthening Systems series resources and offers suggestions for using the resources alone or together to help agencies develop, refine, and implement effective disaster plans.

Publication Year 2021
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This useful matrix and tool can help agency disaster planning teams respond to common disaster impacts and plan for them going forward.

Publication Year 2021
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Browse a list of organizations that offer training activities with defined learning objectives, including self-paced e-learnings, webinars, or videos.

Publication Year 2021