Consider ways to be intentional about advancing race equity while implementing new child welfare programs and practices. This publication includes questions for teams to consider throughout change and implementation processes—from the earliest stages of exploring a problem to identifying solutions to ensuring sustainable implementation.

Explore the various aspects of the importance of normalcy for children and youth in care.

Learn to facilitate a normalcy conversation and to promote normal and developmentally appropriate experiences for youth in foster care.

Examine a five-step framework that helps organizations promote youth engagement in normalcy conversations about the youth’s own care.

Describes how teams plan and develop strategies to identify and recruit pilot testing sites.

Describes the tasks of identifying sites and sequencing to have a plan for where to implement the intervention and how expansion of it should occur.

Get practical information about supporting coordinated strategic and long-term planning.

Provides an overview of essential functions for conducting usability testing where needed, determining the need for piloting a new program or intervention, and planning to stage and scale up implementation of a new program or intervention.

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

Use this resource to prompt discussion and adopt a change management approach  during the development of child welfare information systems.

See how staff can boost their knowledge and skills for engaging families, community providers, and others.

Explores the task of developing plans to stage and scale up an intervention for implementation on a larger scale in a sustainable way.

Explores the tasks of routine monitoring and checking in with identified benchmarks or short-term outcomes.

This webinar provides an overview of the Family First Prevention Services Act provisions and strategies related to reducing reliance on congregate care.

Explore how child welfare agencies, legal and judicial stakeholders, prevention partners, and communities can work together to build prevention-focused systems, starting with jurisdictions' 2020–24 Child and Family Services Plans (CFSPs).