Learn common CFSR terms and acronyms.

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

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

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

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

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. 

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

Learn how supervisors and program managers can assist child welfare caseworkers in conducting quality visits with parents.

Get practical guidance for building organizational capacity and for implementing flexible and innovate programs for youth engagement.

Explore coaching steps and tips supervisors can use to help workers strengthen skills and meet goals.

Use the template and instructions provided to develop parent partner program manuals.

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.

Explore how child welfare professionals and organizations can build capacity for implementing the reasonable and prudent parent standard (RPPS) for children and youth in foster care. 

Learn about the identified five dimensions of capacity, browse examples of each, and find out why each dimension is important to an organization.