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

Publication Year 2023
Video

Presents how to conduct pilot testing for a new intervention.

Publication Year 2019
Video

Presents how teams can conduct usability testing, analyze results, and make adjustments to intervention implementation plans.

Publication Year 2019
PDF

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

Publication Year 2021
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Learn solid strategies for understanding and implementing the trauma-informed care provisions of the FFPSA.

Publication Year 2021
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Develop a better understanding of customized congregate care and learn about implementing the FFPSA provisions in congregate care QRTP assessment.

Publication Year 2021
Video

Explores the planning task of creating a usability testing plan to try critical intervention components and implementation procedures to see how they work.

Publication Year 2019
Video

Examines how teams can determine an approach and develop a plan for pilot testing.

Publication Year 2019
PDF

See strategies and examples for partnering with faith-based communities and leaders on behalf of children and youth in foster care waiting to be adopted.

Publication Year 2019
PDF

Learn how leveraging NGO connections in the community can help child welfare systems be more flexible and adaptable in achieving program goals.

Publication Year 2019
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Get ideas for working with community foundations, endowments, and charitable trusts to improve outcomes for children and youth.

Publication Year 2019
PDF

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.

Publication Year 2021
Video

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

Publication Year 2019
Video

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.

Publication Year 2019
Webinar

Discover how parent partner programs support family reunification by guiding and motivating parents into constructive interactions with the child welfare system and courts.

Publication Year 2016