Learn about various instruments used to measure well-being for program, case planning, and evaluation purposes.

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

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.

Summarizes the change and implementation process and provides an overview of the Change and Implementation in Practice series briefs, “how to” guides that explain key steps and tasks in the process.

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.

Consider whose perspectives are represented on your team. 

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

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

Understand the CFSR statewide data indicators, their use in program improvement efforts, and performance calculation tools.

Better understand your state’s performance on statewide data indicators related to the safety and permanency of children served by the child welfare system. 

Learn about research and practice insights for implementing evidence-based practices in child welfare systems.

Consider ways to be intentional about advancing race equity while implementing new child welfare programs and practices. This publication includes questions for teams to consider throughout change and implementation processes—from the earliest stages of exploring a problem to identifying solutions to ensuring sustainable implementation.

Explore the practical application of implementation science in child welfare.

Learn to use the CFSR Round 4 SPSS syntax to calculate observed performance for a state on all or selected statewide data indicators.

Learn about the definition and calculation of the CFSR statewide data indicator maltreatment in foster care.