Use the activities in this tool to create a plan to replicate, adapt, or design an intervention to improve outcomes for children, young people, and families.

Identify data sources to explore your state’s system of foster and adoptive parent licensing, recruitment, and retention.

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

Identify data sources to explore service array and resource development.

Identify data sources to explore functioning of staff and provider training.

Identify data sources to explore agency responsiveness to the community.

Identify data sources to explore how well your state’s quality assurance system is functioning.

Identify data sources to explore how well your state’s statewide information system is functioning.

Identify data sources to explore how well your state’s case review system is functioning.

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

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

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

Watch the Change and Implementation in Practice: Overview video to learn how key steps, tasks, and concepts fit together to support your agency’s change initiatives. 

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.

Illustrates the four thematic pillars necessary for organizational capacity supporting engagement with young people currently and formerly in foster care. Each of the four segments succinctly defines an element of organizational capacity building for youth engagement.