for Organizational Improvement
A service of the Children's Bureau, US Department of Health and Human Services
T/TA Related to the Child and Family Services Review (CFSR) Process • Fact Sheet • CFSR/CFSP Peer Network • Resources and Publications
The National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement (NRCOI) has worked with other national resource centers (NRCs) to develop a CFSR training and technical assistance (T/TA) package. This material will help agencies successfully prepare for the second round of the CFSR, enhance leadership and management capacity, and achieve better outcomes through systemic change.
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NOW AVAILABLE: CFSR Training and Technical
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The T/TA should begin as States start planning for their second CFSR (or at any other time a State determines) with the approval of the Federal Regional Office.
Each State agency can select any of the focus areas offered and the NRCOI will help modify the material to fit its unique needs. Regardless of the level and type of adaptation an agency wants to make to this material, the NRCOI will work with senior agency administrators, including child welfare directors, to keep them fully engaged in this process and help them customize the material.
Each working session has a distinct focus and combines a presentation of content with active planning by participants for the State's implementation of the content. You can download key materials for each focus area below:
Strategic Planning focuses on the “nuts
and bolts” of strategic planning and the implications for practice.
Because agencies have various planning requirements, it also emphasizes
developing integrated plans.
Synopsis • Facilitator's
Guide • Participant
Workbook • PowerPoint
Presentation
Strengthening Child Welfare Supervision as a Key Practice Change Strategy helps State leaders and supervisors understand supervisors’ critical roles as change agents and develop plans to implement these roles.
Unit 1: Helping Child Welfare Leaders Re-Conceptualize Supervision
Synopsis • Facilitator's Guide • Participant Workbook • PowerPoint PresentationUnit 2: Preparing to Redesign Child Welfare Supervision
Synopsis • Facilitator's Guide • Participant Workbook • PowerPoint Presentation
Engaging Community Stakeholders and Building
Community Partnerships facilitates stakeholder involvement as
a way of life for the agency, and teaches participants how to establish
and sustain these important relationships.
Synopsis • Facilitator's
Guide • Participant
Workbook • PowerPoint
Presentation
Three sub-areas help States engage specific stakeholder groups whose involvement will be emphasized in the second round of CFSRs.
a. Engaging Courts and the Legal System illustrates how agencies, the courts and the legal system can work together with a clear understanding of the expectations, roles, and responsibilities of each partner. This focus area was developed by the National Child Welfare Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues.
Synopsis • Facilitator's Guide • Participant Workbook • PowerPoint Presentationb. State-Tribal Partnerships focuses on improving State-Tribal relations, including partnership in the CFSR process. As sovereign nations, Tribal governments need to be full partners with the State child welfare agency, both to share responsibility for Native children and families and to fully comply with the Indian Child Welfare Act. The National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) helped develop this focus area.
Synopsis • Facilitator's Guide • Participant Workbook • PowerPoint Presentationc. Engaging Birth Parents, Family Caregivers and Youth shows participants how to improve the involvement of birth parents, family caregivers, and youth in the agency’s work, including youth who are or who have been in the child welfare system. Materials developed by the National Child Welfare Resource Center for Youth Development and the National Child Welfare Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice and Permanency Planning are incorporated into this focus area.
Synopsis • Facilitator's Guide • Participant Workbook • PowerPoint Presentation
Using Information and Data in Planning and Measuring
Progress addresses key issues in using data, data quality, and
methods of measuring improvement. All are essential to the CFSR process
and to agency planning, decision making and monitoring. This focus area
was developed by the National Resource Center for Child Welfare Data and
Technology.
Synopsis • Facilitator's
Guide • Participant
Workbook • PowerPoint
Presentation
CFSR Kick Off provides an opportunity
to build the agency team, engage community partners, and plan how to use
the CFSR process to achieve system change.
Synopsis • CFSR Planning Calls Summary Matrix • Sample Stakeholder Invitation • Guidelines for State Workgroups • Planning Group Worksheet • Reference Examples for Evaluative Statewide Assessments
Presentation Templates:
• CFSR Process Overview Presentation
• Statewide Assessment Lessons Learned Presentation
• Elements of a Successful Statewide Assessment
Program Improvement Planning helps
the State maintain momentum by bringing key stakeholders together to develop
the PIP soon after the CFSR onsite visit.
Synopsis • PIP Planning Calls Summary Matrix • Sample Stakeholder Invitation • Guidelines for States for Workgroups and Facilitators • PIP Development Worksheet #1 • PIP Development Worksheet #2
Presentation Templates:
• PIP State Findings PowerPoint Presentation Template
• PIP Process and Expectations PowerPoint Presentation for Stakeholders Example #1
• PIP Process and Expectations PowerPoint Presentation for Stakeholders Example #2
• PIP Process PowerPoint Presentation for States
