Explore how child welfare agency leaders, managers, teams, and stakeholders can understand and assess readiness.

Learn about theory of change and why it is critical to implementing effective changes to improve outcomes. 

This guide and recorded webinar are part of a collection of resources designed to help child welfare agency leaders, managers, and stakeholders build teams to guide the change and implementation process.

Identifies the first three steps in the problem exploration process and examines the importance of data, key components of a data plan, and common mistakes to avoid in identifying problems in child welfare.

Learn to select, design, or adapt an intervention to address an identified problem.

This brief can help child welfare agency leaders, managers, and teams set a strong foundation for a new program, practice, or other intervention. The brief begins with background information and definitions and then describes a step-by-step process for developing a comprehensive implementation plan and identifying capacity building strategies.

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

Learn how implementation teams can assess readiness for change and implementation and support related planning.

Consider whose perspectives are represented on your team. 

Identifies the final three steps in the problem exploration process and strategies that can help with analyzing data, root causes and contributing factors of problems, and common mistakes to avoid in problem exploration.

Learn how to collect, analyze, and use data about the implementation and outcomes of a program or other intervention.

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

Understand the CFSR statewide data indicators, their use in program improvement efforts, and performance calculation tools.

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

This manual examines the roles and responsibilities of child protective services (CPS) workers. It describes the purposes, key decisions, and issues of each stage of the CPS process and strategies for casework supervision, training, and support.