The Western and Pacific Child Welfare Implementation Center, is one of five regionally-based Implementation Centers established by the Children’s Bureau in 2008, to expand and complement other resources available in the Children’s Bureau Training and Technical Assistance Network by providing in-depth and long-term technical assistance and consultation  to counties, states and tribes.

The Western and Pacific Child Welfare Implementation Center has entered into formal partnerships with selected projects that are intended to achieve sustainable, systemic change that improves the safety, permanency, and well-being for children, youth, and families involved in child welfare in Regions IX and X.

Long-term, intensive technical assistance is designed to:

• Promote organizational readiness for change
• Improve cross-system collaboration and promote shared accountability for child welfare outcomes
• Engage families and youth in defining and achieving systems change
• Integrate cultural and linguistic competence to minimize disparate child welfare outcomes
• Facilitate desired organizational and systemic change in child welfare systems

Our Model for Systems Change
Changing systems is complex and requires shifts in attitudes, behaviors and relationships across  the system.  We have identified five key elements that are critical for sustainable systems change.

Our Process for Implementing Change
While each system has unique strengths and issues, the process for supporting systems change is consistent.  there are common steps that many systems go through in achieving sustainable systems change.

WPIC Logic Model 
Our Logic Model for Systems Change in Region IX and X.

Partners, Staff, and Consultants

Who We Are
The Center is comprised of five partner agencies that collectively perform and evaluate the Center’s outreach, networking and technical assistance activities (Contact List  ).