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Explore considerations for assessing readiness as part of an equitable and inclusive change and implementation process. 

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Explore considerations for convening a diverse team of partners, including people with lived expertise, to support equitable change and implementation efforts.

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Summarizes the process of creating teams and teaming structures for a child welfare change and implementation process. This webinar includes an example of how an agency might facilitate the process of teaming to accomplish change, as well as stories from the field on what teaming looks like in practice.

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Explore how child welfare agency leaders, managers, teams, and stakeholders can understand and assess readiness.

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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.

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Learn how implementation teams can assess readiness for change and implementation and support related planning.

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Consider whose perspectives are represented on your team. 

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

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This workbook is designed to support knowledge and skill development as you listen, reflect, and discuss what you have learned throughout the process.

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As you watch the videos to record your questions and ideas, which you can then apply to assessing readiness for a change initiative at your agency.

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This workbook is designed to support knowledge and skill development as you listen, reflect, and discuss what you have learned throughout the process.