This guide and recorded webinar are part of a collection of resources designed to help child welfare agency leaders, managers, and stakeholders build teams to guide the change and implementation process.

Consider whose perspectives are represented on your team. 

Learn step-by-step how to build teams for the change and implementation process.

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. 

Understand the CFSR statewide data indicators, their use in program improvement efforts, and performance calculation tools.

Better understand your state’s performance on statewide data indicators related to the safety and permanency of children served by the child welfare system. 

Presents how to conduct pilot testing for a new intervention.

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

Listen to child welfare agency leaders in the District of Columbia, service providers, partners in community collaboratives, and sister agencies talk about how they coordinate service planning and delivery, are culturally responsive to the community, and provide seamless services to families.

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

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

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 and discuss state performance on CFSR statewide data indicators.

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.