Western and Pacific Child Welfare Implementation Center

a service of The Children's Bureau
a member of the Children's Bureau Training and Technical Assistance Network

Welcome to the Western and Pacific Child Welfare Implementation Center (WPIC). The Center partners with public child welfare systems to implement strategies designed to improve the quality and effectiveness of child welfare services for children, youth and families in Regions IX (Arizona, California, Nevada, Hawaii, American Samoa, and Guam) and X (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Alaska). Learn more about us.

Promoting Systems Change

WPIC provides long term, intensive training and technical assistance to overcome barriers to systems change, accelerate the pace of change, and operationalize core values system-wide to transform policy and practice. Learn aboutkey considerations for implementing change.

Training and Technical Assistance Activities of the Center:

• Implementing Systems Change: Learn about the process used for selecting, planning and implementing strategic, long-term, individualized technical assistance partnership to support systems change, and find out about sites that are implementing multi-year projects. Approved projects include:
• Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska
• Los Angeles County
• Navajo Nation

• Peer Networking: Learn from others about planning and implementing systems change in child welfare by viewing previous webinars. Participate in a variety of training opportunities and sign up for the email list to receive a quarterly Center update.
• Resources/Best Practices on Systems Change: Find the most recent research, publications and tools for implementing successful systems change in child welfare.

A service of the Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Member of the Children’s Bureau Training and Technical Assistance Network.