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Good-Better-Best: A Youth Welfare Approach to Employment

Assists agencies to evaluate how well the services in an area of their choice follow the Youth Welfare approach.

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Identify and Recruit Sites: Video 5

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

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Identify Sites and Sequencing: Video 9

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.

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Implementation Science in Action Recorded Webinar

Explore the practical application of implementation science in child welfare.

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Instructions and Tips for Running the CFSR Round 4 Statewide Data Indicators Syntax

Learn to use the CFSR Round 4 SPSS syntax to calculate observed performance for a state on all or selected statewide data indicators.

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Intervention Testing, Piloting, and Staging Video 1: Overview

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.

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Maltreatment in Foster Care: CFSR Round 4 Statewide Data Indicator Series

Learn about the definition and calculation of the CFSR statewide data indicator maltreatment in foster care.

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Mapping Change and Implementation to CCWIS Projects

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

Webinar

Maximizing Health Reform and Medicaid Re-Design Initiatives to Sustain Innovation in Child Welfare Recorded Webinar

Explore the intersection of title IV-E waivers and other child welfare reforms with trends in healthcare reform.

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Overview of How to Run the CFSR Round 4 Statewide Data Indicators Syntax

Review the steps for running the CFSR Round 4 SPSS syntax to calculate observed performance on statewide data indicators. 

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Permanency in 12 Months for Children in Care 12 to 23 Months: CFSR Round 4 Statewide Data Indicator Series

Learn about the definition and calculation of the CFSR statewide data indicator permanency in 12 months for children in care 12 to 23 months.

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Permanency in 12 Months for Children in Care 24 Months or More: CFSR Round 4 Statewide Data Indicator Series

Learn about the definition and calculation of the CFSR statewide data indicator permanency in 12 months for children in care 24 months or more.

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Permanency in 12 Months for Children Entering Care: CFSR Round 4 Statewide Data Indicator Series

Learn about the definition and calculation of the CFSR statewide data indicator permanency in 12 months for children entering care.

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Perspectives on Normalcy Handout: Empowering Caregiver Decision-Making

This handout is part of the series, “Perspectives on Normalcy: Videos and Discussion Questions.” It is designed to facilitate discussion about the issues raised in the video, “Community-Based Provider: Empowering Caregiver Decision-Making.” 

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Perspectives on Normalcy Handout: This Is My Family, This Is Where I Call Home

Facilitates discussion about the normalcy issues raised in the Young Adult Formerly in Foster Care: This Is My Family, This Is Where I Call Home video, which is part of the Center for States’ Perspectives on Normalcy: Videos and Discussion Questions product.