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Building Capacity to Address Common Challenges

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. 

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Change and Implementation Prevention Planning Crosswalk

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

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Congregate Care in the Age of Family First: Overview

Develop a better understanding of customized congregate care and learn about implementing the FFPSA provisions in congregate care QRTP assessment.

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Congregate Care in the Age of Family First: Family Engagement

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

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Congregate Care in the Age of Family First: Trauma-Informed Care

Learn solid strategies for understanding and implementing the trauma-informed care provisions of the FFPSA.

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​​Investing in Community-Based Care for Children and Youth Involved With Child Welfare​

Explore tools, resources, and strategies to build a continuum of behavioral health care for children and youth involved with child welfare. 

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Strategic Planning in Child Welfare: Integrating Efforts for Systems Improvement

Use this brief to help your agency coordinate strategic and long-term planning, monitoring, and reporting processes—such as the Child and Family Services Plan (CFSP) and Child and Family Services Review (CFSR)—with agency continuous quality improvement (CQI).

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Strategic Planning in Child Welfare: Strategies for Meaningful Youth, Family, and Other Partner Engagement​

Use this brief to explore actionable strategies for meaningful partner engagement in child welfare agency strategic planning, monitoring, and review processes.

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Strategies for Authentic Integration of Family and Youth Voice in Child Welfare

Explore tips and strategies to effectively engage and sustain the involvement of families and youth at the agency level.