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Video

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

Publication Year 2019
Webinar

Hear about the youth-led projects of the Division X Technical Assistance project in fiscal year 2022.

Publication Year 2022
Webinar

Hear how Division X Technical Assistance Targeted Assistance Projects (TAPs) helped child welfare agencies enhance policies and practices for youth and young adults.

Publication Year 2022
PDF

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.

Publication Year 2021
Video

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

Publication Year 2019
Video

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.

Publication Year 2019
Webinar

Discover how parent partner programs support family reunification by guiding and motivating parents into constructive interactions with the child welfare system and courts.

Publication Year 2016
Video

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.

Publication Year 2019
PDF

Use the resources in this list to support young people’s transitional needs and help them develop the skills needed for independent living after exiting foster care.

Publication Year 2023
PDF

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

Publication Year 2023
Video

Tells the story of a family from the perspectives of the father of five children; his mother, who takes on the parenting role for her five grandchildren; and their social worker.

Publication Year 2019
Video

Portrays one family's story from the perspectives of the child’s mother, the grandmother, and the resource parent.

Publication Year 2019
Video

Demonstrates the importance of collaboration and trusting relationships between a grandmother, a resource parent, and a social worker.

Publication Year 2019
Video

Describes the complex nature and special support needs of kinship care. 

Publication Year 2019
Video

Portrays a young woman's story of growing up in foster care, from 5 months through 7 years old, and the difficulties of transitioning back to her family. 

Publication Year 2019