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

Use this tool with your prevention planning team to prepare for and tackle the adaptive challenges that many states face as they develop and implement prevention plans. 

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

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

Explore considerations for selecting, designing, and adapting effective and equitable interventions. 

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

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

Learn to select, design, or adapt an intervention to address an identified problem.

Use this crosswalk to start thinking concretely about prevention planning as a change and implementation process. 

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

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

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.

This workbook and this video series are part of a collection of resources designed to help child welfare agency leaders, managers, and teams select, adapt, or design an intervention to address an identified problem. Use this workbook to further your understanding of concepts and prepare to move learning into action with your team.

Gather your staff to watch the “Deciding What to Implement to Achieve Successful Change” webinar to learn about how a structured approach to selecting an effective intervention can help your agency evaluate solutions to identified problems or needs and achieve goals for change. Then, use this guide to facilitate discussions and lead your team to move learning into action.

Watch this video to learn more about how states are engaging people with lived experience in prevention planning.