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Prevention Planning Roundtable: Building Capacity for Prevention Video

Watch this video to learn more about state experiences building capacity for prevention.

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Readiness Video Workbook

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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Readiness Webinar Discussion and Activity Guide

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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Shifting Our Lens from Child Welfare to Youth Welfare [Graphic]

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.

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The Parameters of Youth Welfare

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.