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Learn about Catherine’s journey recovering from trauma and addiction to be successfully reunified with her daughter.

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Reflect on past results to inform plans for future improvements.

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Use this helpful reminder of Child and Family Services Review (CFSR) measures to support CFSR planning and implementation activities.

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Access this project management resource to plan for the CFSR Statewide Assessment. 

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Listen to a foster care advocate’s mental health journey.

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See how workforce satisfaction and retention are improved by emphasizing the positive differences that are made in the lives of children and families.

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Explore considerations for planning and building capacity for equitable implementation of new programs and practices. 

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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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Explore considerations for testing, piloting, and staging new programs and practices with attention to equity and inclusion. 

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

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Explore considerations for collaboratively developing an equitable theory of change.

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Explore considerations for monitoring and evaluating new interventions and applying findings to make adjustments aligned with equity and inclusion. 

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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 equitable, inclusive, and data-driven problem exploration.

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Explores the second task of creating a data plan to investigate the problem further. Creating a well-thought-out data plan helps the team plan for exploring the identified problem and move toward identifying a possible root cause or causes.