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Explores the tasks of determining the “big picture” objectives and scope of evaluation efforts and assessing the agency’s capacity to conduct rigorous fidelity assessments, formative evaluations, or summative evaluations.

Publication Year 2019
Video

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

Publication Year 2019
Video

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

Publication Year 2019
Video

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

Publication Year 2018
PDF

Illustrates the four shifts that need to occur at the organizational and practice levels to establish a youth welfare system that meets the needs of youth in foster care.

Publication Year 2018
Video

This video builds awareness of what the court sim lab looks like and what the experience is like for participants.

Publication Year 2020
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This video builds awareness of what the medical sim lab looks like and what the experience is like for participants.

Publication Year 2020
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This video describes the debriefing process and explain how it is integral to simulation training.

Publication Year 2020
Podcast
Publication Year 2021
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This video builds awareness of how realistic environments contribute to learning.

Publication Year 2020
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This video shows the experience of trainees engaging with the family actors in a safe space.

Publication Year 2020
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This video builds an understanding of key considerations for developing and scaling up a simulation training effort and how to overcome common challenges.

Publication Year 2020
Video

This video develops an understanding of key considerations for sustaining and continuously improving a simulation training effort and how to overcome common challenges.

Publication Year 2020
Video

This video increases familiarity with the benefits of simulation, including how simulation can strengthen worker skills and improve worker confidence and readiness for practice. 

Publication Year 2020
PDF

Offers guidelines and practical suggestions for shifting from a child-focused system that is often reactive, case plan-driven, and protection-focused to a youth-focused system that is proactive, youth-driven, developmentally framed, and normalcy focused.

Publication Year 2016