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The Center for States provides research assistance and responds to information requests on building capacity in child welfare.

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

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See how workforce satisfaction and retention are improved by emphasizing the positive differences that are made in the lives of children and families.

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

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

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

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

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

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Explore considerations for collaboratively developing an equitable theory of change.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.