Resource Library

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. 

Learn about Child Welfare Capacity Building Collaborative's evidence-informed approach to the change and implementation process.

Explore considerations for convening a diverse team of partners, including people with lived expertise, to support equitable change and implementation efforts.

Explore considerations for monitoring and evaluating new interventions and applying findings to make adjustments aligned with equity and inclusion. 

Explore considerations for assessing readiness as part of an equitable and inclusive change and implementation process. 

Explore considerations for collaboratively developing an equitable theory of change.

Explore considerations for planning and building capacity for equitable implementation of new programs and practices. 

Explore considerations for equitable, inclusive, and data-driven problem exploration.

Explore considerations for testing, piloting, and staging new programs and practices with attention to equity and inclusion. 

Explore considerations for selecting, designing, and adapting effective and equitable interventions. 

Summarizes the change and implementation process and provides an overview of the Change and Implementation in Practice series briefs, “how to” guides that explain key steps and tasks in the process.

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.

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.