Learn to test, pilot, and stage an intervention to address an identified problem.

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

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.

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

Explore information and strategies for advancing racial equity through problem exploration.

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.

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

Consider whose perspectives are represented on your team. 

Summarizes the process of creating teams and teaming structures for a child welfare change and implementation process. This webinar includes an example of how an agency might facilitate the process of teaming to accomplish change, as well as stories from the field on what teaming looks like in practice.

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

This brief addresses both "identifying a problem" and "gathering data and exploring the problem indepth" in the first phase of the Change and Implementation Process.

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