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Learn about the range of practices comprising the continuum of youth engagement to youth empowerment.

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Explore opportunities and lessons learned from the implementation of Division X of the Supporting Foster Youth and Families Through the Pandemic Act, P.L. 116–260.

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

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

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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 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 collaboratively developing an equitable theory of change.

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Consider whose perspectives are represented on your team. 

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Explore information and strategies for advancing racial equity through problem exploration.

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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.

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Helps child welfare agencies respond to the need to alter practice and communication routines when “normal” child welfare services have been disrupted and better prepare agencies for future disruptions

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Set the groundwork for meaningful engagement of people with lived experience in the CFSR.