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A Closer Look
This series of short reports provides information that communities nationwide can use in planning, implementing, and evaluating effective child welfare driven systems of care, and is intended as a tool for administrators and policymakers leading systems change initiatives.

Child Welfare Matters
This newsletter provides information on implementing change at the local level, and offers some strategies and resources for success.

Critical Factors in Systems of Care Implementation
This issue brief presents cross-site patterns of system implementation. These patterns emerged from the analysis of locally identified implementation factors that stakeholders considered critical to system of care development, and are grouped into four categories: Values and Beliefs Factors, Goals Factors, Structures Factors, and Information Factors.

Disparity and Disproportionality Guidance
This guidance define racial and ethnic disparities and disproportionality and discusses the relationship between the two within the field of public child welfare.

Guiding Sustainable Community Change: An Introduction to Coaching
This guidebook provides an introduction to both the concept and the practice of coaching for community change, which is defined as, “an adaptive process tailored to unique community contexts to guide systemic change via participant empowerment.”

Improving Child Welfare Outcomes Through Systems of Care: Building the Infrastructure
This user-friendly book looks in-depth at various components of infrastructure (e.g., governance, service array, policy, finance, etc.) and how to implement change within each component.

Improving Child Welfare Outcomes Through Systems of Care: Systems of Care: Guide for Strategic Planning
This document presents procedures any community can use to support the planning and development process for designing a system of care. This document is a useful tool for strategic planning.