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Change Implementation:
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| Measuring Child Welfare Workers Physiological Stress: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This study explores physiological stress among child welfare professionals before and after the removal of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions in June … | Burnout, Data-Driven Decision Making, Education/Professional Development, Organizational Culture and Climate, Policy Impact, Retention, Trauma-informed Practice, Work Conditions and Benefits | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2023 |
| NCWWI Leadership Academy: Cross-site final evaluation report, pre-training to 6-month follow-up | Evaluators from NCWWI conducted a longitudinal assessment of Leadership Academy participant experience (satisfaction, relevance, knowledge gains and application, change project, … | Adaptive Leadership, Change Implementation, Coaching, Education/Professional Development, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Performance Management, Supervision, Training, Workforce Development Planning | NCWWI-Product, Report/Paper | 2023 |
| The Center for Regional and Tribal Welfare Studies: Systems Change Through a Relational Anishinaabe Worldview | As the third paper in a series of three, this article presents a study on the Anishinaabe worldview perspectives of … | Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Education/Professional Development, Tribal Child Welfare, Tribal Sovereignty | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2023 |
| 9 Proven Strategies to Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Your Workplace | This article lists 9 ways to improve DEIB within your workplace. | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Continuous Quality Improvement, Cultural Responsiveness, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Recruitment, Recruitment and Selection, System Reform, Workforce Development Planning | Overview/Summary | 2022 |
| The Impact of Turnover on Families Involved in Child Welfare | This brief consists of thirty resources divided into three sections (Impact, Community Voice, and Systems Transformation) that examine the impact … | Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Data-Driven Decision Making, Policy Impact, System Reform, Turnover, Workforce Development Planning | NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2023 |
| COVID-19 Lessons Learned for Child Welfare: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This resource explores child welfare caseworkers’ perspectives on how organizational changes during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic affected … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, Work Conditions and Benefits, Workforce Development Planning | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2023 |
| NCWWI Leadership Academy | The NCWWI Leadership Academy provides supervisors and managers with opportunities to become skilled in leading change, fostering collaborations, implementing results-oriented … | Adaptive Leadership, Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Education/Professional Development, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Supervision, Training, Trauma-informed Practice, Workforce Development Planning | Curricula/Training Material, eLearning Module, NCWWI-Product | 2020 |
| Dear Leaders Tool | This resource includes starting points for child welfare leaders who seek to bring family voice and power into the system. | Adaptive Leadership, Advancing Racial Equity, Community Engagement, Family-Centered Practice, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Practice Supports, System Reform | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| TeamFirst A Field Guide for Safe, Reliable, and Effective Child Welfare Teams | A reference book for safe, reliable and more effective teamwork. Readers will find descriptions of specific team-based strategies and tactics … | Change Implementation, Organizational Culture and Climate, Practice Models, Practice Supports, Supervision, Work Conditions and Benefits, Workforce Development Planning | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2019 |
| Safe & Connected™ Practice Model | A model of practice that includes a research-informed framework, engaged assessments based on strengths, needs and risks, analytical decision making … | Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Family-Centered Practice, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Practice Models, Practice Supports, System Reform, Trauma-informed Practice | Overview/Summary | 2022 |
| Putting Family First: Developing an Evidence-Based Child Welfare Preventive Practice Model | This paper provides guidance for state child welfare agencies on what to consider when developing a preventive practice model that … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Education/Professional Development, Evidence-Based Practice, Family-Centered Practice, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Practice Models, Practice Supports, Prevention/Early Intervention, System Reform, Training | Report/Paper | 2020 |
| Kids Count Data Center | A project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation and a premier source of data on children and families. Each year, … | Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Data-Driven Decision Making, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity | Website | 2022 |
| Annie E. Casey Family First Communication Toolkit | A downloadable toolkit to help child welfare leaders, providers, advocates, and others talk about how the Family First Prevention Services … | Change Implementation, Communication, Education/Professional Development, Family-Centered Practice, Practice Supports, Prevention/Early Intervention, System Reform, Training | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2019 |
| Family First Toolkit Part 3: Evaluating & Improving Quality | The tools in this kit align with the second phase of Family First Implementation: evaluating and improving quality. These tools … | Change Implementation, Continuous Quality Improvement, Data-Driven Decision Making, Evidence-Based Practice, Family-Centered Practice, Policy Impact, Practice Supports, Prevention/Early Intervention, System Reform | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Family First Toolkit Part 2: Implementation & Change Management | The tools in this kit align with the second phase of Family First Implementation: implementation and change management. These Chapin … | Change Implementation, Education/Professional Development, Evidence-Based Practice, Family-Centered Practice, Policy Impact, Practice Supports, Prevention/Early Intervention, System Reform, Training | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Family First Toolkit Part 1: Planning & Readiness | The tools in this kit align with the first phase of Family First Implementation: planning and readiness. These tools from … | Change Implementation, Education/Professional Development, Evidence-Based Practice, Family-Centered Practice, Policy Impact, Practice Supports, Prevention/Early Intervention, System Reform, Training | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| System Transformation Through Community Leadership: Strategies for building effective partnerships with Black and Brown communities | Chapin Hall has compiled key findings into five system transformation equity bulletins and a toolkit to make lessons from the … | Adaptive Leadership, Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, Evidence-Based Practice, Family-Centered Practice, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Practice Supports, System Reform | Tool/Guide/Manual, Website | |
| Elevating Culturally Specific Evidence-Based Practices | This brief provides an overview of ten culturally specific programs and two culturally responsive interventions, the evidence for each, and … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, Data-Driven Decision Making, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Practice Supports, Tribal Child Welfare | Report/Paper | 2021 |
| Family Engagement Playbook | A collection of research-based actionable resources to strengthen individual competencies and organizational support for meaningful family engagement. | Change Implementation, Coaching, Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, Family-Centered Practice, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Organizational Culture and Climate, Practice Supports, System Reform | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2019 |
| Methods and Emerging Strategies to Engage People with Lived Experience: Improving Federal Research, Policy, and Practice | This brief identifies lessons learned and key considerations from a range of methods for engaging individuals with lived experience to … | Community Engagement, Data-Driven Decision Making, Family-Centered Practice, Policy Impact, Practice Supports, System Reform | Report/Paper | 2021 |
| Kansas Racial Equity Collaborative | The Racial Equity Collaborative is a Kansas statewide effort to understand the history of racial inequities in child welfare and … | Advancing Racial Equity, Community Engagement, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, System Reform | Video, Webinar/Presentation | 2022 |
| Undoing Racism Through Social Work: NASW Report to the Profession on Racial Justice Priorities and Action | As part of NASW’s collaborative five year social change initiative to strengthen their efforts to end racism in the social … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Policy Impact, System Reform | Report/Paper | 2021 |
| Promoting Antiracist Child Welfare Practice: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This 1-pager summarizes a study where authors interviewed 16 regional- and state-level public child welfare agency administrators representing 13 states … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Cultural Responsiveness, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, System Reform, Workforce Development Planning | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2022 |
| QIC-WD Three Keys to Implementation | According to QIC-WD sites the keys to good implementation are to slow down, gain buy-in, and build a strong implementation … | Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Continuous Quality Improvement, Workforce Development Planning | Video | |
| An Overview of the QIC-WD | The Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development (QIC-WD) is dedicated to understanding how to improve child welfare workforce outcomes. | Recruitment, Recruitment and Selection, Retention, Work Conditions and Benefits, Workforce Development Planning, Workload | Video | |
| Connecting HR and Child Welfare Data | Child welfare and human resources (HR) data need to be connected to answer important workforce questions. This video highlights some … | Change Implementation, Continuous Quality Improvement, Data-Driven Decision Making, Retention, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | Video | |
| Organizational Change in Action | The Division of Milwaukee Child Protective Services worked with the QIC-WD to address organizational culture and climate. This video highlights … | Continuous Quality Improvement, Organizational Culture and Climate, Vision, Mission, and Values, Work Conditions and Benefits | Video | |
| The Challenge of Measuring Turnover in Child Welfare | To address the challenge of turnover in child welfare it is important to understand why people leave, when they leave, … | Data-Driven Decision Making, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | Video | |
| Untapped Potential for Child Welfare Administrative Data | Although a lot of data are captured through child welfare management information systems, there is much we still need to … | Data-Driven Decision Making, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | Overview/Summary | 2021 |
| Worker Turnover is a Persistent Child Welfare Challenge – So is Measuring It | The QIC-WD team has spent five years working with public child welfare agencies to implement and study efforts to address … | Data-Driven Decision Making, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | Overview/Summary | 2022 |
| How Can Public Child Welfare Agencies Get and Keep a Great Workforce? | The following tips were compiled based on the experience of QIC-WD sites. They are intended to help child welfare administrators, … | Data-Driven Decision Making, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | Overview/Summary | 2021 |
| How Can Child Welfare Agencies Leverage Data to Address Important Workforce Questions? | Child welfare agencies experience workforce turnover (14-20% annually) that can be costly and result in poorer outcomes for children and … | Data-Driven Decision Making, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | Overview/Summary | 2021 |
| Generations in the Workplace | An overview of generational differences in the workplace and strategies organizations can take to address it. | Cultural Responsiveness, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Supervision, Workforce Development Planning | Overview/Summary | 2021 |
| AFCARS Reports | The Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) collects case-level information on all children in foster care and … | Change Implementation, Data-Driven Decision Making, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity | Report/Paper, Website | 2022 |
| Rethinking Child Welfare Recruitment | This brief discusses the current workforce crisis and provides recommendations on ways child welfare programs can enhance their recruitment efforts. | Communication, Education/Professional Development, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Job Analysis and Position Requirements, Organizational Culture and Climate, Recruitment, Recruitment and Selection, Retention, Screening and Selection, University Partnerships, Work Conditions and Benefits, Workforce Development Planning, Workload | NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Using a Culturally Responsive Leadership Framework: NCWWI 1-page Summary | The authors developed a culturally responsive leadership framework (CRLF) to address context, distributive leadership, and cultural responsiveness. Examining these elements … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, Education/Professional Development, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Supervision, Training, Vision, Mission, and Values, Workforce Development Planning | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2022 |
| Centering Child Welfare Worker Well-being | This infographic describes how child welfare organizations can center child welfare worker well-being to better support children and families. | Advancing Racial Equity, Burnout, Education/Professional Development, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, Supervision, Training, Trauma-informed Practice, Work Conditions and Benefits, Workforce Development Planning | Infographic, NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2022 |
| Safe and Sound: Creating and Nurturing a Culture of Safety | This flyer provides an overview of the Connecticut Safe and Sound Culture, including definitions of the Five Rs of Safe … | Communication, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, System Reform, Trauma-informed Practice, Vision, Mission, and Values, Workforce Development Planning | Overview/Summary | 2021 |
| Learning, Leading, Changing: Engaging Emerging Leaders as a Retention Strategy | Held on May 26, 2022, this learning exchange focused on how universities and agencies engage social work students and graduates … | Cultural Responsiveness, Education/Professional Development, Leadership, Mentoring, Retention, University Partnerships, Workforce Development Planning | NCWWI-Product, Webinar/Presentation | 2022 |
| Overrepresentation of Black Children in Child Welfare: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This document summarizes a systematic review that confirmed racial disparities and overrepresentation of Black youth, ages 10-17, involved with the … | Data-Driven Decision Making, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, System Reform | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2022 |
| Leadership Academy Evaluation Guide | This guide provides an overview of evaluation activities and resources that a state, county, tribal, or private child welfare agency … | Change Implementation, Continuous Quality Improvement, Data-Driven Decision Making, Leadership, Workforce Development Planning | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Learning, Leading, Changing: Advancing Workplace Equity | This learning exchange, held on April 19, 2022, focused on how participants can advance workplace equity in child welfare. Panelists … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Data-Driven Decision Making, Education/Professional Development, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, University Partnerships, Workforce Development Planning | NCWWI-Product, Webinar/Presentation | 2022 |
| Calculating Turnover | In this video, Megan Paul, QIC-WD Workforce Team Lead, discusses how to calculate turnover in a child welfare agency. | Change Implementation, Data-Driven Decision Making, Retention, Workforce Development Planning | Video | 2017 |
| The Indian Self-Determination Act and Social Work Practice | This infographic describes how the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (ISDEAA) applies to child welfare social work practice with … | Change Implementation, Cultural Responsiveness, Education/Professional Development, Tribal Child Welfare, University Partnerships | Infographic, NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2022 |
| Indian Child Welfare Timeline | This infographic provides a timeline for Indian Child Welfare from 1820 to present | Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Education/Professional Development, Tribal Child Welfare | Infographic, NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2022 |
| Advancing Equity and Inclusion Through the Child and Family Services Reviews | This document provides guidelines and suggestions for how to integrate a focus on equity and inclusion into the stages and … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Continuous Quality Improvement, Data-Driven Decision Making, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| What Did Child Welfare Learn from 2020: upEnding Systemic Racism | This podcast episode is part of a series that examines what the child welfare field learned during 2020. It features … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Inclusivity/Racial Equity | Podcast | 2021 |
| Reimagining Child Welfare: Oregon’s Vision for Transformation | This podcast episode features one jurisdiction moving from discussion to action. Oregon’s Child Welfare Division has released its Vision for … | Change Implementation | Podcast | 2021 |
| We Are Child Welfare Campaign: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to improve public perceptions of the organization and build deeper consensus with the public by … | Change Implementation, Communication, Community Engagement, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Town Hall Meeting: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to improve understanding of the political situation as it relates to the program by bringing … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Costing Out Turnover: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to assess the justification for a retention program by evaluating the costs of turnover. It … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| What’s My Conflict Style: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to become aware of your conflict management style and how it potentially influences conflictual situations. … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Regulate the Conflict Temperature: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to encourage creative tension with a group (e.g., team, organization) by implementing strategies to bring … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Structured Sharing: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to build consensus in a group by influencing and negotiating through use of structured sharing … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Seeking to Understand: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to gain a more thorough understanding of alternative viewpoints and the rationale behind them. It … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Applying a Political Perspective: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to understand how political perspectives affect the organization’s functioning and reality. It is a part … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Agency Shadow Tour: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to increase sensitivity to and respect for others by becoming better acquainted with people at … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Solutions in Rounds: Learning Circles: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to engage in a dialogue to identify and analyze relevant unit or organization issues and … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Dissecting a Decision: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to improve decision-making by studying a previously made decision, the decision-making process, and the impact … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Tech-Out Planning & Organizing: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to use technology to plan and organize a project or initiative to increase communication and … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Data Storytelling: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to capture the story behind the data and facilitate the connection between the staff’s work … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Data Comparison: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to understand data more holistically by comparing differences among unit, office, or county and then … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Dig Deeper in Data: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to understand the significance of organization data for improving outcomes. It is a part of … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Jump-Start Diversity Initiative: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to foster a more diverse workplace. It is a part of the NCWWI Leadership Tool … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Diversity Assessment: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to become aware of strategies to diversify your program, unit, division, or organization. It is … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Privilege Walk: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to understand privilege and explore the ways it is experienced based on being a member … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Is Yours a Learning Organization?: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to build an organizational culture that promotes and supports learning. It is a part of … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Taking it Higher: Elevating Morale: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to applaud resilience within the unit, division, or organization through a strategic approach to improving … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Why People Stay Interviews: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to understand why people stay with the organization, especially how they overcame obstacles to remain. … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Way to Go!: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to validate employees’ efforts through a formal reward and recognition program. It is a part … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Building Resiliency: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to increase awareness of how to build resiliency and provide resources and information to staff. … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Group Learning Club: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to create a culture of continuous learning. It is a part of the NCWWI Leadership … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Welcome Aboard!: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to model interpersonal relations by developing a program exhibiting an inclusive, hospitable, and friendly environment. … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| The Sunny Side: Strengths Assessment: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to assess strengths within your organization so you understand areas that are lacking and/or build … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Team Scorecard: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to apply competencies to facilitate improved cooperation and goal orientation. It is a part of … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Team Building/Team Unifying: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to apply competencies in fostering team cohesion and motivation. It is a part of the … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| My Flexibility Quotient: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to assess your ability to change and be open to new information and changing conditions. … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Best Practice Approach Lunch & Learn: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to explore new ideas and innovations to address organization issues. It is a part of … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Technology Transfer: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to explore the latest innovations in technology and their application to the organization. It is … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Child Welfare in the News: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to consider current issues and trends relevant to child welfare in the United States and … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Upside Down, Inside Out: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to develop new insights by analyzing and reviewing existing tasks, activities, and systems. It is … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Implementation Science Applied: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to apply implementation science to a current initiative, program, policy, or practice to plan and … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Listening to the Family Voice: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to develop new insights about organization programs to promote innovative practice. It is a part … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Got Change?: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to understand an individual’s or team’s readiness for change, bring awareness to the process, promote … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Through an Adaptive Lens: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to analyze an issue through an adaptive lens to more thoroughly understand an issue situation … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Purposeful Mission and Vision Integration: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to reinforce that all organization initiatives are connected to the organization’s vision and mission. It … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Logic Modeling: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to think through how an initiative will achieve its ultimate goal through an incremental process. … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Living By The Code: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to understand how the Social Work Code of Ethics manifests in organization behavior. It is … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Values Assessment: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to compare personal and organization values to better understand and align values. It is a … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| My Vision Statement: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to understand your personal leadership vision so you can manifest it more intentionally through leadership … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Host Racial Equity Deep Discussion: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to facilitate deep discussions about racial equity leading to action. It is a part of … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Dial in a New Communication Channel: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to employ new communication channels to increase transparency and information sharing. It is a part … | Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Reflecting on Racial Equity and Inclusion | These short (one minute or less) videos provide reflection questions and link to a racial equity and inclusion resource. We … | Advancing Racial Equity, Cultural Responsiveness, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, System Reform | NCWWI-Product, Video | 2022 |
| Self Care By Example: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you model self-care to others. It is a part of the NCWWI Leadership Tool Kit. | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Intentional Inclusion: Creating Equity in the Workplace | Child welfare systems should foster a healthy organizational culture and climate and improve the well-being of the child welfare workforce. … | Advancing Racial Equity, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, System Reform, Workforce Development Planning | Video | 2021 |
| How Case Severity and Workplace Resources Impact Worker Retention: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This document summarizes a study that used survey and administrative data from 485 Oregon Department of Human Services caseworkers to … | Retention, Workforce Development Planning | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2021 |
| Pandemic Posed Challenges, but also Created Opportunities for Agencies to Enhance Future Operations | This report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) examines how child welfare agencies responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and … | Change Implementation, Practice Supports, Work Conditions and Benefits | Report/Paper | 2021 |
| Child Welfare Systems Change: NCWWI Advisory Board Recommendations | The NCWWI Advisory Board was charged to “reimagine” the child welfare system by focusing on promoting child and family well-being. … | Change Implementation, System Reform, Vision, Mission, and Values | NCWWI-Product, Report/Paper | 2022 |
| Introducing the Tribal Comprehensive Organizational Health Assessment (TCOHA) | This short video introduces the TCOHA to Tribal Workforce Excellence Sites. It also serves as an example for other sites … | Workforce Development Planning | NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2021 |
| Introducing the Comprehensive Organizational Health Assessment (COHA) | This one minute video introduces the COHA to Workforce Excellence Sites. It also serves as an example for other sites … | Workforce Development Planning | NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2021 |
| How can child welfare leaders and providers reimagine support for children and families? | Child welfare systems across the country are looking for opportunities to move upstream and offer proactive support to children and … | System Reform | Overview/Summary | 2021 |
| COVID-19 Workforce Needs Assessment (WNA) Cross site Report For Workforce Excellence Public Child Welfare Sites | This report provides the results of the Coronavirus-19 Workforce Needs Assessment (COVID-19 WNA) that was conducted in two state and … | Workforce Development Planning | NCWWI-Product, Report/Paper | 2020 |
| Critical Workforce Needs 2020 | This document provides an overview of cricital workforce needs across both public and tribal child welfare programs and organized using … | Workforce Development Planning | NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2020 |
| Utah’s Family First Plan Approved | The Utah Department of Human Services’ (DHS) Family First Prevention Services Act plan, approved by the Federal Children’s Bureau will … | System Reform | Report/Paper | 2019 |
| Washington State Family First Prevention (IV-E Program) Services Plan | Washington State submitted their Family First Prevention Plan on December 20, 2019. | System Reform | Report/Paper | 2020 |
| NCWWI Communications Guide: How to Advance Organizational Goals through Effective Messaging, Storytelling, and Public Relations | The NCWWI Communications Guide (the Guide) helps child welfare programs’ initiate or improve their existing communications strategies to build public … | Change Implementation, Communication, Community Engagement, Leadership | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2020 |
| Comprehensive Organizational Health Assessment Public Workforce Excellence Sites Cross-Site Summary Report | This is a cross-site summary report of results from NCWWI’s four public (two county and two state) Workforce Excellence (WE) … | Workforce Development Planning | NCWWI-Product, Report/Paper | 2020 |
| 2020 Child Welfare Recognition Event “I am…” Participant Responses | This document lists participant responses to an activity that asked them to complete the sentences, “I am a leader beacuse…”, … | Workforce Development Planning | Overview/Summary, Voices from the Field | 2020 |
| The Evidence Decision-Makers Want | The Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) works to promote the use of evidence in decision-making by leaders … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Overview/Summary | 2019 |
| Three Branch ToolKit & Webinar | The Three Branch Toolkit and Webinar describe how a three-branch approach takes an intentional step back from governing as usual … | System Reform | Tool/Guide/Manual, Webinar/Presentation | 2019 |
| Through their Lens: Case Managers’ Experiences of the Child Welfare System | Case managers play a significant role in the child welfare system. Although previous studies have examined the multiple demands and … | Workforce Development Planning | Overview/Summary | 2017 |
| Tool for Engaging the Legal Community in Implementing Family First | This tool lays the groundwork for state and local child welfare agencies to partner with the legal community to identify … | System Reform | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2020 |
| 12 Tips for Small Counties around Implementation | This blog post provides a list of recommendations for small counties to consider when implementing a new initiative. | System Reform | Website | 2020 |
| Building Community Resilience Policy and Advocacy Guide | The BCR Policy Guide is intended to assist organizations in becoming effective policy advocates and educators. It provides guidance to … | Change Implementation | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2018 |
| Child Welfare and Pandemics Literature Scan | This literature scan identifies and synthesizes existing literature examining the effects of pandemics and the identification of policy solutions to … | System Reform | Report/Paper | 2020 |
| Applying a Racial Equity Lens to a Change Project | This worksheet provides a list of questions to ask before implementing any change project, to ensure your agency is a … | System Reform | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2020 |
| Examining Internal and External Job Resources in Child Welfare: Protecting Against Caseworker Burnout | A central goal of this study was to understand internal and external resources that can mitigate the relationship between job … | Workforce Development Planning | Overview/Summary | 2018 |
| Family First Prevention Services Act Of 2018 | The role of the courts in implementation of Families First. | System Reform | Report/Paper | 2019 |
| Indiana Department of Child Services Child Welfare Title IV-E Waiver Demonstration Project Final Report | This report describes how, during Title IV-E Waiver demonstration period, Indiana was able to spend dollars more flexibly to expand … | System Reform | Report/Paper | 2018 |
| Listening to the Voices of Children in Foster Care: Youths Speak Out About Child Welfare Workforce Turnover and Selection | Recruitment and retention of an experienced workforce is a problem for most child welfare systems and service providers. High staff … | Workforce Development Planning | Overview/Summary | 2010 |
| Arkansas Title IV-E Prevention Program | Arkansas’s Families First Implementation plan | System Reform | Report/Paper | 2019 |
| Change and Implementation in Practice | The Change and Implementation in Practice series is a collection of research-informed and user-friendly resources that can help agencies achieve … | System Reform | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2019 |
| Change and Implementation in Practice: Teaming | Child welfare agency leaders, managers, change and implementation teams, continuous quality improvement teams, and other stakeholders can use the resources … | System Reform | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2018 |
| Five Steps to a Stronger Child Welfare Workforce Podcast | This podcast episode explores the key components and requirements of a five-step process developed by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. | Workforce Development Planning | Podcast | 2019 |
| Tips for Implementation Teams | The purpose of this resource is to highlight some important considerations for systems and organizations to think about before they … | Change Implementation | Overview/Summary | 2018 |
| Drivers Best Practices Assessment | The purpose of the Drivers Best Practices Assessment (DBPA) is to assist organizations in assessing their current supports and resources … | Change Implementation | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2018 |
| Evaluation Plan Development Tip Sheet | The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services designed this tip sheet to assist child welfare professionals in developing strong … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2019 |
| Families First: Readiness Assessment, Planning and Implementation | The Chapin Hall suite of tools, readiness assessment, and planning framework provide a phased approach to preparing for successful implementation. … | System Reform | Overview/Summary | 2018 |
| Drivers Best Practices Assessment | The purpose of the Drivers Best Practices Assessment (DBPA) is to assist organizations in assessing their current supports and resources for … | Change Implementation | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2019 |
| Resources for Healthy Generations | Change Implementation | Overview/Summary | 2019 | |
| Toward a High Quality Child Welfare Workforce: Six Doable Steps | This paper describes a number of promising practices used across the country to improve the working conditions and quality of … | Workforce Development Planning | Overview/Summary | 2006 |
| Tracking and Using Implementation and Outcome Data (W/Tip Sheet) | This document shares important best practices in building capacity to track and use data for practice model decision making. | Data-Driven Decision Making | Overview/Summary | 2016 |
| Use of Research Evidence: Building Two-Way Streets | This video challenges the traditional paradigm of moving from “research to practice,” suggesting that researchers and evaluators need to think … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Video | 2014 |
| Using Child Welfare Administrative Data in the Permanency Innovations Initiative Evaluation | This brief discusses the use of administrative data in the Permanency Innovations Initiative (PII) evaluation. The brief begins by defining … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Overview/Summary | 2016 |
| Using Data to Measure Performance: A new framework for assessing the effectiveness of home visiting | This report provides information to support state and local managers in collecting, analyzing, and using data to gain a clear … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Report/Paper | 2015 |
| Using Data: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This document highlights the findings of a study identifying the organizational factors that influence data use among child welfare employees in … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product | 2016 |
| Using Integrated Data Systems to Improve Child Welfare Outcomes | This document highlights the use of integrated data systems by Wisconsin and Washington to evaluate and understand how child support … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Report/Paper | 2017 |
| Video series: A Framework to Design, Test, Spread, and Sustain Effective Practice in Child Welfare | This video series complements “A Framework to Design, Test, Spread, and Sustain Effective Practice in Child Welfare,” a publication for … | Change Implementation | Video | 2014 |
| What are Predictive Analytics in Child Welfare? | This Prezi presentation defines predictive analytics, provides examples of how to use existing data sets in order to determine patterns … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Webinar/Presentation | 2014 |
| What’s the Difference? Constructing Meaningful Comparison Groups | This video explains why it is important to use comparison groups to identify problems and understand whether practices and programs … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Video | 2014 |
| Who Cares about Data Sharing: Making the Case to the Courts | This video discusses the importance of courts and child welfare agencies utilizing practical performance measurement and data sharing to avoid … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Video | 2014 |
| Why the Workforce Matters Infographic | This infographic visually describes why the workforce matters. It includes information on the challenges of child welfare work, the cost … | Workforce Development Planning | NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2016 |
| Workforce and Outsourcing Issues Key to Reducing Fatalities: Comments for the CECANF | This document addresses outsourcing, caseloads and workloads, professional development, and workplace safety issues as key to reducing fatalities; and provides … | Workforce Development Planning | Overview/Summary | 2015 |
| Workforce Demographics & Job Satisfaction: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This paper summarizes article, “Child Welfare Worker Characteristics and Job Satisfaction: A National Study,” which discusses the results and implications … | Workforce Development Planning | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product | 2012 |
| Workforce Development Foundations (3 minute microlearning) | This three minute module focuses on the center of the NCWWI Workforce Development Framework (WDF) to highlight the strategies to … | Workforce Development Planning | Curricula/Training Material, NCWWI-Product | 2016 |
| Workforce Development in Child Welfare: Summary of Research, State Initatives and Other Innovations | This report provides information on workforce development initiatives in child welfare and in other fields with an emphasis on recruitment, … | Workforce Development Planning | Overview/Summary | 2012 |
| Workforce Excellence in Missouri | The Missouri Children’s Division faced big challenges prior to 2014. Too many children were in out-of-home care, child welfare workers … | Workforce Development Planning | NCWWI-Product, Video | 2018 |
| Workforce Planning and Development Final Report (Arizona) | Workforce Development Planning | Report/Paper | 2011 | |
| Workforce Planning and Development Final Report (Arizona) | Workforce Development Planning | Report/Paper | 2011 | |
| Workforce Planning and Development Final Report (Arizona) | This report provides context for the technical assistance offered under the Human Services Workforce Initiative, shares the accomplishments, and includes the … | Workforce Development Planning | Report/Paper | 2011 |
| Workforce Planning Checklist – GA | This checklist developed by Georgia State Personnel Administrationis a step-by-step checklist for effective workforce planning. | Workforce Development Planning | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2012 |
| Workforce Planning Desk & Reference Guide (Alaska) | This guide is intended for managers and supervisors anticipating recruitment and retentions challenges, and to assist agencies in carefully preparing … | Workforce Development Planning | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2008 |
| Workforce Planning Guidelines – GA | This guidelinedeveloped by Georgia State Personnel Administration provides a framework to implement and sustain effective workforce planning. The presentation outlines … | Workforce Development Planning | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2012 |
| Workforce Planning Model & Guide (California) | This guide was developed to assist State departments take a strategic approach to workforce planning as opposed a reactionary approach … | Workforce Development Planning | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2008 |
| Workforce Planning Resource Guide for Public Sector Human Resource Professionals | This guide focuses on how workforce planning can meet the unique needs of public sector HR professionals at any level … | Change Implementation | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2002 |
| Workforce Planning Training – GA | This presentation developed by Georgia State Personnel Administration provides a framework to implement and sustain effective workforce planning. The presentation … | Workforce Development Planning | Webinar/Presentation | 2012 |
| Workforce Planning Training – GA | Workforce Development Planning | Webinar/Presentation | 2012 | |
| Working Together: The Paloma-Welleseley Guide to Participatory Program Evaluation | This guide provides a framework and process that support a participatory evaluation from beginning to end. The information and data … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2010 |
| NJ DCF Workforce Report: A Commitment to Child Welfare Excellence through Comprehensive Workforce & Leadership Development | This report provides an in-depth review of key indicators of performance and related strategies that reflect the New Jersey Department … | Workforce Development Planning | Report/Paper | 2016 |
| On Equal Footing: The Importance of Baseline Equivalence in Measuring Program Effectiveness | This brief explains the role of baseline equivalence when measuring a home visiting program’s effectiveness, how to measure similarity of … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Overview/Summary | 2014 |
| Partnerships, Evaluation, and Partnerships, Evaluation, and Effective Practice in Child Welfare: Introducing a New Framework (Part 1) | This video introduces a practical guide for strengthening child welfare systems called “A Framework to Design, Test, Spread, and Sustain … | Change Implementation | Video | 2014 |
| Permanency Planning Today – CQI | This issue of Permanency Planning Today provides basic foundational information on evidence-based practice and points the readership toward resources and … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Overview/Summary | 2014 |
| Planning for Your Program’s Child Welfare Data System | This two-page resource offers concise guiding questions for programs to consider as they develop or enhance a data system. Data … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Overview/Summary | 2018 |
| Policy Matters: Setting and Measuring Benchmarks for State Policies | This paper puts forth an approach to setting benchmarks for a state policy agenda to encourage stronger family relationships. The … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Report/Paper | 2009 |
| Positioning Public Child Welfare Guidance: Workforce | This guide is intended for child welfare agency teams charged by agency leadership with developing and maintaining a high-performing workforce … | Workforce Development Planning | Report/Paper | 2010 |
| Predictive Analytics and Child Protection: Constraints and Opportunities | This webinar discusses increasing efforts to leverage predictive analytics for better decision making in child protection. It reviews past experiences, … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Webinar/Presentation | 2015 |
| Preparing for Tomorrow’s State and Local Government Workforce | This eBook looks at how state and local governments across the country are using innovative practices to recruit, develop, and … | Workforce Development Planning | Report/Paper | 2016 |
| Profile of the Social Work Workforce | This report presents the size of the workforce, demographic and educational background, work setting, compensation, and geographical distribution. ( | Workforce Development Planning | Report/Paper | 2017 |
| Quality Assurance Review of the Division of Children, Youth and Families: New Hampshire Department of Children, Youth and Families | This report examines how well laws, policies, and practices protect children who come to the attention of the New Hampshire’s … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Report/Paper | 2016 |
| Quality Assurance Review of the Division of Children, Youth and Families: New Hampshire Department of Children, Youth and Families | This report examines how well laws, policies, and practices protect children who come to the attention of the New Hampshire’s … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Report/Paper | 2016 |
| Quality Service Review: Protocol for Review of Current Status of Children & Families & the Performance of Key System Functions (Tennessee) | This document is designed for use in a case-based Quality Service Review (QSR) process and is used for conducting a … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2011 |
| Real Stories from the Field Tool Kit | This toolkit features real stories and supports discussions with staff, students, and/or community members about innovative workforce development initiatives to … | Workforce Development Planning | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2018 |
| Self-Assessment Workbook for Building a Stable Quality Child Welfare Workforce | This workbook provides guidance to child welfare administrators on innovative human resource management policies and practices. The workbook allows administrators … | Workforce Development Planning | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2006 |
| Sharing Data for Better Results: A Guide to Building Integrated Data Systems Compatible with Federal Privacy Laws | This toolkit helps agency leaders and staff use integrated data to improve city services, and provides information to find the … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2014 |
| Strategic Workforce Planning Manual – Fairfax, Virginia | This manual defines fundamental steps to develop and implement a workforce plan, provides information and processes that can be applied … | Workforce Development Planning | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2003 |
| Success Beyond 18: Re-Examining the Foster Care Review Process: Extended Foster Care as a Catalyst for Improved Practices and Better Outcomes | This paper focuses on the role of courts in establishing case oversight and review processes that include youth in developmentally … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Report/Paper | 2013 |
| Succession Planning for Government | This document explores talent management practices best to support a larger, more strategic role for HR in a rapidly changing … | Workforce Development Planning | Report/Paper | 2014 |
| Succession Planning Process | This document details the six-step process for effective succession planning and several factors typically found in successful succession planning initiatives. | Workforce Development Planning | Overview/Summary | 2005 |
| Supervisors’ Guide to Developing Operational Workforce Plans (Washington) | The guide is designed as a practical tool to be used by supervisors and those who support supervisors with unit-level … | Workforce Development Planning | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2008 |
| Systems of Care Policy Action Guide | Change Implementation | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2019 | |
| Systems of Care Strategic Planning Toolkit | This toolkit addresses key issues and processes involved in formulating a strategic plan to guide infrastructure development, discusses related activities, … | Change Implementation | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2010 |
| Taking Action: Keys to Using Data & Information | Data-Driven Decision Making | Overview/Summary | 2010 | |
| The 21st Century Public Service Workforce: Eight Lessons from the Literature | This paper summarizes eight lessons from the academic and policy literature on public service change and how change is impacting … | Workforce Development Planning | Overview/Summary | 2014 |
| The National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW): Implications for Child Welfare Evaluations | This video illustrates ways that the NSCAW- which provides nationally representative, longitudinal data on children and families that have been … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Video | 2014 |
| The Power of Data for Learning and Changing | This is the story of 3 graduate students from the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare who were able to … | Data-Driven Decision Making | NCWWI-Product, Podcast | 2018 |
| The Quality Services Review Process | This training course provides an overview of the Quality Service Review (QSR) process, the QSR Protocol, and the responsibilities of … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Curricula/Training Material | 2016 |
| Three Examples of Predictive Analytics in Child Protection | This webinar discusses how predictive analytics operates in the real world and the implications it has for child protective services. … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Webinar/Presentation | 2015 |
| Mind the Gap #5: Transforming Child Welfare Decision-making through Modern Technology & Data Analytics | This webinar explores how child welfare organizations can leverage modern technology, data and information to support and transform frontline child … | Data-Driven Decision Making | NCWWI-Product, Webinar/Presentation | 2015 |
| Minnesota Child Welfare Workforce Stabilization Study: Child Protection Summary Report | This summary specifically focuses on the child protection workforce to better understand the state of Minnesota in order to develop … | Workforce Development Planning | Overview/Summary | 2016 |
| Monitoring Child Welfare Programs – Performance Improvement in a CQI Context | This paper describes a continuous quality improvement (CQI) process in which the central elements are outcomes, baseline data, goal-setting, a … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Report/Paper | 2007 |
| National Data Archive on Child Abuse & Neglect | This website, for The National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN), promotes scholarly exchange among researchers in the … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Website | 2019 |
| Navigating Rough Waters: Lessons Learned & Challenges to Avoid When Planning a Tribal Child Welfare Data System | When programs journey through the river of data, knowing how to navigate rough waters and overcome challenges can make a … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Overview/Summary | 2018 |
| NCWWI Workforce Development Framework Brief | This document outlines NCWWI’s Workforce Development Framework (WDF) which is intended to help agency leaders understand best and promising practices … | Workforce Development Planning | NCWWI-Product, Report/Paper | 2019 |
| New Jersey DCF Workforce: Preliminary Highlights 2014-2015 | This report summarizes the demographics and characteristics of the current child welfare workforce and highlights a variety of indicators of … | Workforce Development Planning | Report/Paper | 2015 |
| New Jersey Fellows: Building Capacity in “Managing by Data” to Improve Leadership, Frontline Practice & Case Outcomes | This webinar showcases an innovative program at the New Jersey Department of Children and Families (NJ DCF) to build capacity … | Data-Driven Decision Making, Leadership | NCWWI-Product, Webinar/Presentation | 2012 |
| New Jersey Fellows: Building Capacity in “Managing by Data” to Improve Leadership, Frontline Practice & Case Outcomes (1-page Summary) | This document summarizes a NCWWI webinar that showcases an innovative program to build capacity in “managing by data” to support … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product | 2012 |
| New Jersey Workforce Report: Annual Update 2016-2017 | workforce and leadership functioning as well as system reform benchmarks in its commitment to the safety and well-being of children … | Workforce Development Planning | Report/Paper | 2017 |
| New York State Department of Civil Services: Workforce & Succession Planning | This webpage provides State agencies with guidance and a forum to share information on Workforce and Succession Planning. | Workforce Development Planning | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2016 |
| Get the Data, Share the Data, Use the Data | This report summarizes the importance of data gathering, sharing and use between child welfare and education systems across three states: … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Report/Paper | 2015 |
| Getting it Done: Partnering to Overcome Concerns about Data Sharing | This video follows a child welfare director as she takes a moment to investigate some common barriers to data sharing … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Video | 2014 |
| Guide to Developing Strategic Workforce Plans (Washington) | This guide is to explain the process of strategic workforce planning. This guide is designed as a practical tool for … | Workforce Development Planning | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2008 |
| Guide to Results-Based Planning and Facilitation: Achieving Results and Equity for Vulnerable Children and Youth | This guide explains how to use a proven strategic planning discipline -Results-Based Accountability (RBA) – to achieve population level results, … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2014 |
| Harnessing Big Data for Social Good: A Grand Challenge for Social Work | This paper focuses on the potential of big data and data science to produce novel types of information to inform … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Report/Paper | 2015 |
| Improving the Welfare of Native Children by Using & Managing Data | Covering the basics of data, this brief resource includes information on how data can be used to address issues and … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Overview/Summary | 2018 |
| In Pursuit of Better Outcomes – Putting CQI in North Carolina’s Child Welfare Toolbox | This issue of Training Matters provides an overview of the state’s system of CQI, REAP (Reaching for Accountability and Excellence … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Overview/Summary | 2012 |
| Kansas Child Welfare Comprehensive Workforce Plan | The report presents results of a state-wide assessment and preliminary plan to address agency and systems-level workforce issues. | Workforce Development Planning | Report/Paper | 2010 |
| Keeping Track of Our Most Valuable Resource: Using Workforce Data to Improve Child Welfare Programs | Keeping Track of Our Most Valuable Resource: | Workforce Development Planning | Video | 2014 |
| Knowing the Numbers: Accessing and Using Child Welfare Data | This brief provides an overview of data sources that are useful to the child welfare community specifically, including the major … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Overview/Summary | 2014 |
| Learning, Leading, Changing | For decades, the approach to workforce issues in child welfare was crisis-driven. Workers were not sufficiently supported, and states struggled … | Workforce Development Planning | NCWWI-Product, Video | 2018 |
| Learning, Leading, Changing and Making a Difference | The video provides an overview of NCWWI through the perspectives of NCWWI’s diverse partners. It explains how NCWWI’s workforce development … | Adaptive Leadership, Change Implementation | NCWWI-Product, Video | 2014 |
| Lessons from the Field: Assessing and Improving CQI Systems in Child Welfare | This issue of Child Welfare Matters profiles a CQI assessment approach the NRCOI designed and implemented in partnership with State … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Overview/Summary | 2014 |
| Levels of Research Evidence and Benefit-Cost Data for Title IV-E Waiver Interventions | This research brief describes the Title IV-E demonstration interventions used by the complete set of Title IV-E Waiver states and … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Report/Paper | 2015 |
| Logic Model Builder | This webpage helps users create logic models for Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention/Family Support and Postadoption Services Programs, guiding the … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2019 |
| Making a Difference #1: Evaluation Findings, Strategies and Lessons Learned | This webinar offers an overview of what we learned through our evaluation and highlights findings from our research examining factors … | Workforce Development Planning | NCWWI-Product, Webinar/Presentation | 2014 |
| Making Decisions in Child Welfare | This issue of Practice Notes addresses new ways to ensure decisions are fair, well-informed, and lead to the best possible … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Overview/Summary | 2017 |
| Measurement Matters: How Should My Program Measure Changes in Child Well-Being? | This video presents guidance about issues to consider when attempting to measure changes in well-being outcomes for children and families … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Video | 2014 |
| Measuring Child Welfare Outcomes: A Compendium of Standardized Instruments | This document serves as a compendium of common child-, caregiver-, family-, and organization-level instruments that have been used by discretionary … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2015 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Qualitative Case Review | This webpage contains resources describing the general process of qualitative case review and includes State and local examples that describe … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Reference/Resource List | 2019 |
| Child Welfare Outcomes 2010-2013 Report to Congress | This report to Congress provides information on the performance of states in seven outcome categories and also includes data on … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Report/Paper | 2016 |
| Child Welfare Outcomes 2010–2013: Report to Congress Executive Summary | This document summarizes the Child Welfare Outcomes 2010–2013 Report to Congress which provides information on the performance of states in seven … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Overview/Summary | 2016 |
| Child Welfare Practice & Data: Making the Connection | This issue of Practice Notes explores how using data can enhance child welfare practice. | Data-Driven Decision Making | Overview/Summary | 2009 |
| Child Welfare Workforce Demographic Trends | This document offers a general snapshot of frontline child welfare caseworkers in the Unites States based on findings of various … | Workforce Development Planning | NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2010 |
| Child Welfare Workforce: Implications for the Private Nonprofit Sector | This paper provides recommendations of actions that private, public, and academic organizations can undertake individually and collaboratively to create state … | Workforce Development Planning | Report/Paper | 2006 |
| ChildStat Video Training – A Case Practice Accountability Tool (NYC) | This video introduces ChildStat, a case practice accountability tool, explores the core features and the process of conducting a review, … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Video | 2013 |
| ChildStat: Leading Systems-level Improvements based on Case-level Experiences (1-page Summary) | This webinar showcases the development, implementation and outcomes of ChildStat, a creative, data-driven, systemic leadership initiative implemented in 2006 by … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Video | 2013 |
| ChildStat: Leading Systems-level Improvements based on Case-level Experiences (1-page Summary) | This document summarizes a NCWWI webinar that showcases the development, implementation, and outcomes of ChildStat, a creative, data-driven, systemic leadership … | Change Implementation, Data-Driven Decision Making, Organizational Culture and Climate | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product | 2011 |
| Collaborating to Collect and use Data to Inform Quality Contacts | This tip sheet offers considerations and collaborative strategies related to the collection, analysis, and use of quality contact data. | Data-Driven Decision Making | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2018 |
| Collaborative & Effective Evaluation in Tribal Communities: The Roles and Voices of Key Stakeholders | This video describes the roles of key stakeholders to create a new narrative for evaluation in Tribal communities and reflects … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Video | 2014 |
| Competency Menu Rating Worksheet | This form provides a menu of competencies that may be appropriate for a wide array of human service jobs to … | Workforce Development Planning | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2014 |
| Competency-based Workforce Development: A Synthesis of Current Approaches | This paper defines and explains a competency-based approach, the rationale for using competency models, the history of competency models, a … | Performance Management, Workforce Development Planning | NCWWI-Product, Report/Paper | 2015 |
| Components of an Effective Child Workforce to Improve Outcomes For Children and Families: What Does the Research Tell Us? | Workforce Development Planning | Report/Paper | 2006 | |
| Confidentiality Toolkit: A Resource Tool from the ACF Interoperability Initiative | This toolkit, developed by Administration for Children and Families (ACF), is intended to help jurisdictions successfully navigate the delicate balance … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2014 |
| Considering Outcomes in the Children’s System of Care | This brief serves as a primer for programs and agencies that are considering initiating work towards the measurement and management … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Overview/Summary | 2016 |
| Continuous Quality Improvement: FRIENDS Online Learning Center Course | This training builds on the basics about Continuous Quality Improvement and what agencies and staff are doing towards creating a … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Curricula/Training Material, eLearning Module | 2009 |
| Cost Analysis in Program Evaluation | This two part video discusses how cost analysis can be a helpful when performing program evaluation, and reviews steps in … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Video | 2014 |
| Counting is Not enough: Investing in Quality Service Reviews | This report examines the practices of more than 20 jurisdictions, gathers insight from national experts and presents recommendations for improving … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Report/Paper | 2011 |
| Creating a New Narrative: Collaborative and Effective Evaluation in Tribal Communities | This video describes historical experiences of intrusive research and judgmental evaluations that have caused harm to many American Indian and … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Video | 2014 |
| CWIG Workforce Podcast Series Episode 1: The Workforce Development Framework | This podcast, hosted by the Child Welfare Information Gateway (CWIG), gives listeners an opportunity to hear about how addressing your … | Workforce Development Planning | NCWWI-Product, Podcast | 2018 |
| Data Strategies: Measuring Racial Disparities in Child Welfare | This webinar helps agency leaders, managers and data staff identify at which decision points children of different races experience inequitable … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Webinar/Presentation | 2016 |
| Data-Driven Decision Making Toolkit (Los Angeles) | This guide provides key information and practical tools for consistent integration of Data-driven Decision Making (DDDM) principles and strategies into … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2013 |
| Data-driven Performance Improvement: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This paper summarizes the article “Use Of Data to Assess Performance And Promote Outcome Achievement by Public and Private Child … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product | 2013 |
| Dismantling Racial Inequity #3: A Data-Driven Approach to Improving Outcomes for Black Girls in Child Welfare | This third session of “Dismantling Racial Inequity Through Child Welfare Systems Change” webinar series will highlight how Allegheny County Department … | Data-Driven Decision Making, Disproportionality & Disparities | NCWWI-Product, Webinar/Presentation | 2017 |
| Effective Succession Strategies | vThis document describes common characteristics of effective succession planning efforts and strategies that promote effective succession planning. | Workforce Development Planning | Overview/Summary | 2005 |
| Findings, Practice and Policy Implications from LONGSCAN: the 20-year Longitudinal Studies of Child Abuse and Neglect | This document provides an introduction to LONGSCAN, a project which was funded in part by the Children’s Bureau for two … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Overview/Summary | 2011 |
| Foster Conversations about Results With Data Walks | This video demonstrates how you can rely on data walks to get stakeholders to work together to assess and improve … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Video | 2016 |
| Framework for Managing with Data to Achieve Outcomes in Child Welfare | This five-step framework assists agencies in: engaging staff at all levels and community partners throughout the process; clarifying and focusing … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2014 |
| Front-Line Practice: Define, Assess, Plan, Implement and Monitor | This paper discusses the Define, Assess, Plan, Implement and Monitor (DAPIM) model as a continuous improvement tool that promotes strategic … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2009 |
| Child and Family Services Review (CFSR) E-Training Platform | This online training is designed to provide state review teams, partners, and stakeholders with information relevant to the onsite reviews … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Curricula/Training Material | 2016 |
| Child and Family Services Review (CFSR) Round 3 Resources | This webpage offers the resources on Round 3 of the CFSRs for states participating in the process. | Continuous Quality Improvement | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2016 |
| Child Protective Investigator and Child Protective Investigator Supervisor Educational Qualifications, Turnover, and Working Conditions Status Report: Annual Report (Florida) | This report provides a status on educational qualifications, turnover rates, and working conditions for the Department’s child protective investigators, child … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Report/Paper | 2015 |
| Child Welfare & Technology | Data-Driven Decision Making | Report/Paper | 2011 | |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Information Systems & Data | This webpage offers resources that address the use of information systems and data in child welfare, including planning and implementing … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Reference/Resource List | 2019 |
| A Framework to Design, Test, Spread, and Sustain Effective Child Welfare Practice: Tying It All Together (Part 5) | This video illustrates all five phases of the framework through a single case example. It also discusses how subsidized guardianship … | Change Implementation | Video | 2014 |
| A Guide to Build Capacity for Child Welfare Using the CQI Process | This report discusses guidelines for increasing the capacity of child welfare agencies through the use of their continuous CQI systems. … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2014 |
| A Results-Oriented Culture (7 minute microlearning) | Leaders in a results-oriented culture look at data, interpret it, and take action to make changes to improve outcomes based … | Data-Driven Decision Making | eLearning Module, NCWWI-Product | 2017 |
| A Review of Child Welfare Services at DSS SC | This report reviews various issues pertaining to child welfare services, procurement, and agency management at the South Carolina Department of … | Workforce Development Planning | Report/Paper | 2014 |
| Accountability | This issue of A Closer Look, examines the process of “accountability” as a valuable tool for building and sustaining effective … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Overview/Summary | 2010 |
| Allegheny County Data Warehouse | This webpage highlights a human service agency’s data warehouse that provides the central repository of social services data, allows DHS … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Website | 2019 |
| Applying Predictive Analytics to Child Welfare | This module discuss how predictive analytics might inform, assist, and improve decision making in child protection. | Data-Driven Decision Making | Webinar/Presentation | 2015 |
| Being a Good Consumer of Predictive Analytics in Child Protection | This webinar discusses what questions organizations considering predictive analytics should be asking–both of themselves and of researchers. | Data-Driven Decision Making | Webinar/Presentation | 2015 |
| Better Data, Better Outcomes: Engaging Users in Performance Management | This paper explores some of the issues affecting data quality in child welfare case management systems and their underlying causes; … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Report/Paper | 2010 |
| Building Data Driven Child Welfare Practice: An Evaluation of the Manage by Data Initiative | This report presents findings from the evaluation of Manage by Data which sought to identify implementation challenges and solutions, presenting … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Report/Paper | 2013 |
| Building Evaluation Capacity: Collecting & Using Data in Cross-project Evaluations (Guide II) | These guides addresses data collection, reporting, and use, examining ways to build data-collection capacity among projects; rationales, sources, and measures … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2008 |
| Building Leaderful Organizations: Succession Planning for Nonprofits | This publication presents alternative models of succession planning designed particularly for nonprofits: (1) Pursuing the agency’s mission and service goals … | Workforce Development Planning | Report/Paper | 2008 |
| Building Workforce Capacity through a Child Welfare Practice Model: Lessons from the Field | This paper shares specific and targeted strategies employed by states for improving supervision and front line practice, quality assurance, as … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Report/Paper | 2012 |
| CalSWEC’s Ecological Model for Workforce Development | This model was developed as a guide for workforce development evaluation and research activities. The model depicts the contributions of education, in-service … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2014 |
| Casework and Evaluation: Learning From My Success Story | This video features a caseworker who explains the unexpected role that evaluation played in delivering the services and supports that … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Video | 2014 |
| 10 Practices: A Child Welfare Leader’s Desk Guide to Building a High-Performing Agency | This two-part guide presents (1) targeted information on 10 practices, including 10 outcomes and 15 measures that are arguably the … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2015 |
| 7 Lessons Learned from the Western Workforce Project | This document explains seven lessons learned after conducting Comprehensive Organizational Health Assessments (COHA) at four child welfare sites in Colorado, … | Workforce Development Planning | Overview/Summary | 2014 |
| A Blueprint for Using Data to Reduce Disparities/Disproportionalities in Human Services & Behavioral Health | This guide shows how to use data to help achieve racial equity in human and behavioral health care services policy, … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Report/Paper | 2013 |
| A Comprehensive Workforce Strategy to Advance Child Welfare Outcomes | This report is a compilation of input from leaders and universities in 28 U. S. states and counties. The group … | Workforce Development Planning | NCWWI-Product, Report/Paper | 2013 |
| A Framework to Design, Test, Spread, and Sustain Effective Child Welfare Practice: Develop & Test and Compare & Learn (Part 3) | This video introduces two additional phases of the framework: Develop & Test and Compare & Learn. It describes how agencies … | Change Implementation | Video | 2014 |
| A Framework to Design, Test, Spread, and Sustain Effective Child Welfare Practice: Identify & Explore (Part 2) | This video explains the process of building evidence and spreading effective practice in child welfare begins with investigating a problem, … | Change Implementation | Video | 2014 |
| A Framework to Design, Test, Spread, and Sustain Effective Child Welfare Practice: Replicate & Adapt and Apply & Improve (Part 4) | This video describes the Replicate & Adapt and Apply & Improve phases of the framework, explains how agencies can apply … | Change Implementation | Video | 2014 |
| CalSWEC’s Ecological Model for Workforce Development | This model was developed as a guide for workforce development evaluation and research activities. The model depicts the contributions of education, in-service … | Workforce Development Planning | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2014 |
| Systems of Care Communication Toolkit | This toolkit incorporates successful communication strategies, communication products that supported the execution of these strategies, and lessons learned by various … | Change Implementation, Communication, Community Engagement | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2019 |
| The Utility of Trouble – From Crisis to Opportunity: Child Welfare Reform in MA | This report provides an outside perspective and examples of effective strategies implemented by states and jurisdictions who struggle with ways … | System Reform | Report/Paper | 2014 |
| Toolkit for Expanding the System of Care Approach | This toolkit provides resources that guide work to expand and sustain systems of care throughout states, tribes, territories, and communities. … | System Reform | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2015 |
| We All Need Somebody: Supporting Children, Families & the Workforce in Connecticut’s Family Foster Care System (CT) | This report describes the systems change efforts to better utilize and support the State of Connecticut’s existing foster families, through … | System Reform | Report/Paper | 2011 |
| What Works in Child Welfare Reform: Reducing Reliance on Congregate Care in Tennessee (TN) | This report explores the factors that enabled Tennessee to make and sustain dramatic declines in the number of children placed … | System Reform | Report/Paper | 2011 |
| Modification to Sunset Issue 2 on the Department of Family and Protective Services (TX) | This report highlights the changes and recommendations proposed by the CPS Operational Review and Sunset Commission to address the issues … | System Reform | Report/Paper | 2015 |
| On the Frontline: Improving Child Protective Services Investigations | This webinar provides an outline of On the Frontline, an Annie E. Casey Foundation initiative to strengthen child protection and … | System Reform | Webinar/Presentation | 2014 |
| Report to the Sunset Advisory Commission: Child Protective Services Transformation | This report summarizes the progress of Texas Department of Family and Protective Services’ (DFPS) to reform Child Protective Servicesto include … | System Reform | Report/Paper | 2014 |
| Statewide Implementation of a Family Centered Practice Model: Increasing Readiness & Managing Change (MS) | This overview of the Mississippi Change Management Implementation Project highlights the institutionalization of a family-centered practice culture in the Mississippi … | System Reform | Webinar/Presentation | 2010 |
| Sunset Advisory Commission: Staff Report with Final Results | This report summarizes the actions taken by the Sunset Commission and the Texas’ 84th Legislature after a two year review … | System Reform | Report/Paper | 2015 |
| Supporting Change in Child Welfare: An Evaluation of Training and Technical Assistance | This report presents the key findings and primary implications of an evaluation of Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA) delivery and … | System Reform | Report/Paper | 2015 |
| Systems of Care Policy Action Guide | This guide is a capacity building tool that supports the process of identifying and advancing policy strategies to improve child … | System Reform | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2011 |
| Texas DFPS CPS Operational Review – The Stephen Group | This operational review of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS), Child Protective Services (CPS) identifies ways in … | System Reform | Report/Paper | 2014 |
| The Development, Implementation, and Assessment Approach | This document describes an approach which delivers best practices in implementation science, helping public, private, and Tribal child welfare organizations … | System Reform | Overview/Summary | 2015 |
| Beyond Quick Fixes: Agency Priorities – Keep Focused and Don’t get Lost in the Chaos! | This document features a series of articles regarding the status of child protection services in the United States and proposals … | System Reform | Report/Paper | 2014 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Building & Sustaining System Reform Efforts | This webpage includes resources that provide data, knowledge, strategies, and tools for administrators and program managers as they plan, implement, … | System Reform | Reference/Resource List | 2016 |
| Child Welfare Practice: Creating a Successful Climate for Change | This report presents the findings of an institutional analysis in Los Angeles, CA, of the policies and practices that may … | System Reform | Report/Paper | 2012 |
| Child Welfare Reform – CW360 | This issue of CW360° explores the evolution of child welfare reform in the United States, introduces common catalysts for change … | System Reform | Report/Paper | 2016 |
| Congregate Care Rightsizing and Redesign (CT) | This report provides an overview of congregate care in Connecticut, describes levers of change in four practice areas, profiles younger … | System Reform | Report/Paper | 2011 |
| Crisis and Opportunity in Delaware’s Child Welfare System | This report explains, Outcomes Matter, an initiative that boosted morale among caseworkers and gave kids and families a critical voice … | System Reform | Report/Paper | 2016 |
| Direct Service Workers’ Recommendations for Child Welfare Financing and System Reform | This report summarizes frontline workers’ and supervisors’ survey responses and analyzes the implications their answers have on continuing efforts to … | System Reform | Report/Paper | 2012 |
| Findings and Resources from an Evaluation of Training and Technical Assistance | This webpage summarizes a five year evaluation of two groups of Training and Technical Assistance providers –regional Child Welfare Implementation … | System Reform | Website | 2015 |
| For the Welfare of Children: Lessons Learned from Class Action Litigation | This document presents a series of papers evaluating the use of class action litigation to reform public child welfare systems. … | System Reform | Report/Paper | 2012 |
| Georgia Child Welfare Reform Council Final Report to the Governor | This report contains the Child Welfare Reform Council recommendations for how to reform Georgia’s child welfare system in order to … | System Reform | Report/Paper | 2015 |
| Governor’s Task Force on the Protection of Children Final Report and Recommendations (MN) | This report advise the governor and legislature on system and practice improvements in the child protection system at all levels … | System Reform | Report/Paper | 2015 |
| Guide to Developing, Implementing, and Assessing an Innovation | This series of documents provides guidance on the use of the Development, Implementation, and Assessment approach and includes links to … | System Reform | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2016 |
| Guide to Developing, Implementing, and Assessing an Innovation: Introduction | This document provides background information and instructions for using the Guide to Developing, Implementing, and Assessing an Innovation, along with … | System Reform | Overview/Summary | 2016 |
| Guide to Developing, Implementing, and Assessing an Innovation: Volume 1 Teaming and Communication Linkages | This document includes activities to assist with organizational elements that begin prior to the exploration stage and continue throughout the … | Communication, System Reform | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2016 |
| Guide to Developing, Implementing, and Assessing an Innovation: Volume 2 Exploration | This document includes activities that help define the target population and desired outcomes of change, create and promote buy-in for … | System Reform | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2016 |
| Guide to Developing, Implementing, and Assessing an Innovation: Volume 3 Installation | This document provides guidance for developing protocols for staff selection, training, coaching, and fidelity assessments; and describes activities that are … | System Reform | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2016 |
| Guide to Developing, Implementing, and Assessing an Innovation: Volume 4 Initial Implementation | This document provides guidance on testing critical elements and modifying components to improve innovation processes and ensure that implementation supports … | System Reform | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2016 |
| Guide to Developing, Implementing, and Assessing an Innovation: Volume 5 Full Implementation | This document includes activities that help ensure teams are in place, continuously improving and sustaining the innovation, and the environment … | System Reform | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2016 |
| Hand in Hand: How One of the Nation’s Largest Child Welfare Agencies Transformed Itself for Better Outcomes for Children (Los Angeles, CA) | This special report details the comprehensive service delivery system that has revolutionized child welfare in L.A. County, reducing reliance on … | System Reform | Overview/Summary | 2009 |
| Innovations in NYC Health and Human Services Policy: Child Welfare Policy | This policy brief focuses on the child welfare reforms implemented in New York City from 2002 and 2013 that many … | System Reform | Report/Paper | 2014 |
| Lessons Learned through the Application of Implementation Science Concepts to Children’s Bureau Discretionary Grant Programs | This report explores the organizational characteristics, activities, and processes that facilitate the successful implementation of innovative CB discretionary grant projects, … | System Reform | Report/Paper | 2013 |
| A Guide to the Implementation Process: Stages, Steps & Activities | This guide is based on a review of the literature of implementation science and the collective experiences of federally funded … | Change Implementation | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2014 |
| The Active Implementation Hub | Change Implementation | Curricula/Training Material | 2019 | |
| Positioning Public Child Welfare Guidance: Strategy Guidance | This guide provides strategies and key processes for developing and executing a strategic plan, and practices for establishing and implementing … | Change Implementation | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2010 |
| Positioning Public Child Welfare Guidance: Change Management | This guide provides strategies, key processes, and practices for establishing and implementing change management to support everyone in an agency … | Change Implementation | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2010 |
| California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare: Implementation Resources Section | Change Implementation | Website | 2019 | |
| National Implementation Research Network | Change Implementation | Website | 2019 | |
| Balancing Head & Heart California’s Child Welfare Workforce | This newsletter from the California Child Welfare Co-Investment Partnership examines the valuable and complex work performed by California’s child welfare … | Workforce Development Planning | Report/Paper | 2017 |
| Governor’s Task Force on the Protection of Children Final Report and Recommendations (MN) | This report advise the governor and legislature on system and practice improvements in the child protection system at all levels … | Workforce Development Planning | Report/Paper | 2015 |
| Findings and Resources from an Evaluation of Training and Technical Assistance | This webpage summarizes a five year evaluation of two groups of Training and Technical Assistance providers –regional Child Welfare Implementation … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Website | 2015 |
| Weaving Together Agency Staff Around Organizational Change | Change Implementation | NCWWI-Product, Video | 2018 | |
| ChildStat: Leading Systems-level Improvements based on Case-level Experiences | ChildStat: Leading Systems-level Improvements based on Case-level Experiences | Change Implementation, Data-Driven Decision Making, Organizational Culture and Climate | NCWWI-Product, Webinar/Presentation | 2011 |
| CWIG Workforce Podcast Series Episode 4: Creating Change at the Local Level | Change Implementation | NCWWI-Product, Podcast | 2018 | |
| Gaining Buy-In from the Front Line During Times of Change | This brief examines the critical role of frontline staff in implementing change, outlines key steps and strategies for engaging staff, … | Change Implementation | Overview/Summary | 2011 |
| Change & the Roles People Play (2 minute microlearning) | At just over two minutes, this microlearning course provides an overview of the roles people play during different stages of … | Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Organizational Culture and Climate | eLearning Module, NCWWI-Product | 2017 |
| Theory of Change: A Practical Tool for Action, Results and Learning | This manual, created for the Casey Foundation’s Making Connections initiative, defines theory of change using Casey’s impact, influence and leverage … | Change Implementation | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2004 |
| Logic Model Development Guide: W.K. Kellogg Foundation | This guide focuses on the development and use of the program logic model and provides an orientation to the underlying … | Change Implementation | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2004 |
| Framing Program Evaluation: Tinkering With Theories of Change and Logic Models | This article explores how three organizations developed their program’s theory of change and logic model. | Change Implementation | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2015 |
| Everything You Wanted to Know About Logic Models but Were Afraid to Ask | This paper provides a basic overview of logic models – what they are, their benefits and suggestions for level of … | Change Implementation | Overview/Summary | 1999 |
| Implementation Process Measure (IPM) | This measure is intended to track the processes that state, county, and tribal jurisdictions use to implement systems changes during … | Change Implementation | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2011 |
| From Automated to Comprehensive: What child welfare organizations need to succeed | This report provides insights into how agencies can optimally meet the key provisions of Comprehensive Child Welfare Information Systems (CCWIS) … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Report/Paper | 2016 |
| The PII Approach: Building Implementation and Evaluation Capacity in Child Welfare | This report describes Permanency Innovations Initiative’s collaborative approach to implementation and evaluation. | Data-Driven Decision Making | Report/Paper | 2013 |
| The Permanency Innovations Initiative Approach to Evaluation | This brief describes the overall evaluation approach, including an explanation of the evaluation framework and a description of both pre-evaluation … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Overview/Summary | 2015 |
| Human Resources as a Strategic Partner for Health and Human Services | This report proposes a variety of strategies for consideration by health and human service leaders in partnership with their human … | Workforce Development Planning | Report/Paper | 2016 |
| When Preparation Meets Opportunity | Anne Graham, a child welfare middle manager from New Hampshire, developed a much needed change initiative during her participation in … | Change Implementation | NCWWI-Product, Podcast | 2018 |
| Implementing Change (9 minute microlearning) | When working in an environment of constant change, it is helpful to use a framework to help us navigate the turbulence … | Change Implementation | eLearning Module, NCWWI-Product | 2018 |
| Stages of Change | This guide for systems change outlines the five stages of change and provides brief user-friendly information with links to additional … | Change Implementation | Overview/Summary | 2018 |
| 2018 Annual Progress and Services Report: New Hampshire Division for Children, Youth and Families | This report provides updates on the continued implementation of New Hampshire’s Practice Model and key goals and initiatives outlined in … | Change Implementation | Report/Paper | 2018 |
| 2015–2019 Child and Family Services Plan: New Hampshire Division for Children, Youth and Families | This report focuses on New Hampshire’s implementation of a statewide Practice Model and key goals and initiatives used to strengthen … | Change Implementation | Report/Paper | 2016 |
| Implementation Oversight for Evidence-Based Programs: A Policymaker’s Guide to Effective Program Delivery | This brief identifies four key steps that state and local governments can take to strengthen their implementation efforts. | Change Implementation | Report/Paper | 2016 |
| Building Capacity to Manage Change and Improve Child Welfare Practice | This paper describes the Child Welfare Capacity Building Collaborative’s evidence-informed approach to the change and implementation process. This process has … | Change Implementation | Overview/Summary | 2015 |
| 4 Ways Implementation Support Centers Assist in the Delivery of Evidence-Based Programs | This fact sheet highlights four ways implementation support centers can support more effective implementation of evidence-based programs, thereby increasing the … | Change Implementation | Overview/Summary | 2017 |
| CWIG Workforce Podcast Series Episode 2: A State’s Approach to Change | This podcast, hosted by the Child Welfare Information Gateway (CWIG), shares an example of how one state changed its approach … | Change Implementation | NCWWI-Product, Podcast | 2018 |
| Context Matters: Recommendations for Funders & Program Developers Supporting Implementation in Rural Communities | This paper explores how funders and program developers can partner with rural communities to achieve improved outcomes for individuals and … | Change Implementation | Report/Paper | 2017 |
| 3 Tools To Guide Change Efforts (2 minute microlearning) | This microlearning explains the 3 most popular tools used by those managing change efforts at their agency. | Change Implementation | eLearning Module, NCWWI-Product | 2017 |
| Leadership and Organizational Change for Implementation | This webinar describes the work on leadership for implementing evidence-based practices (EBPs) in child welfare and other service settings, issues … | Change Implementation | Webinar/Presentation | 2017 |
| Stages of Implementation (9 minute course) | This short course (9 minutes) reviews the stages of implementation as described in the framework developed by the National Implementation Research Network … | Change Implementation | eLearning Module, NCWWI-Product | 2017 |
| Systems of Care System Management Toolkit | This toolkit provides guidance for developing the day-to-day activities of those who are overseeing the system of care and provides … | Change Implementation | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2010 |
| Providing Technical Assistance to Build Implementation Capacity in Child Welfare: A Manual Based on the Development, Implementation, and Assessment Approach | This document provides guidance to T/TA providers who are building the implementation capacity of child welfare organizations that use the … | Change Implementation | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2016 |
| Learning from Practice: Evaluation and Improvement Science Syllabus | This guide focuses on the development and use of the program logic model, and provides an orientation to the underlying … | Continuous Quality Improvement | Curricula/Training Material | 2015 |
| Leading in Permanent Whitewater (7 minute microlearning) | Change is constant in our environment and in child welfare, in particular. Just under 8 minutes, this Quickbit describes the … | Adaptive Leadership, Change Implementation, Leadership, Vision, Mission, and Values | Curricula/Training Material, eLearning Module, NCWWI-Product | 2015 |
| Dismantling Racial Inequity #1: Using an Institutional Analysis to Identify Core Issues and Spur Change | This webinar is the first session of “Dismantling Racial Inequity Through Child Welfare Systems Change” webinar series and shares key … | Change Implementation, Disproportionality & Disparities | NCWWI-Product, Webinar/Presentation | 2017 |