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

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

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

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

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.

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

Summarizes the change and implementation process and provides an overview of the Change and Implementation in Practice series briefs, “how to” guides that explain key steps and tasks in the process.

Learn about the Youth Welfare approach, which outlines how agencies can shift from a child-focused system to a youth-focused system.

Assists readers in exploring the Youth Welfare approach to service provision in the area of health care.

Suggests examples of service provision for youth in foster care in the area of financial literacy and describes how those services can be improved using a “Good-Better-Best” continuum approach.

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

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

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.

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.