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CWLA National Blueprint – Strategies for

Excellence in Child Welfare and How to

Apply Them

September 8, 2017

2017 Biennial Conference:

Implementing Evidence-Supported Services

for Children and Families e

PRESENTERS

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Julie Collins, MSW, LCSW

• VP Practice Excellence, CWLA, Washington DC

Nancy Gagliano, MSW

• Assistant Director, Office of Strategic Development, NJ Department of Children & Families, Trenton, NJ

* Permission has been given by NIRN for the use of their slides in this

presentation – they are adapted from Bringing the CWLA National Blueprint to Life

– using what we know works from Implementation Science, March 30, 2017 CWLA

National Conference co-presented by Allison Metz , Director, National

Implementation Research Network (NIRN), and Senior Scientist. Frank Porter

Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

OBJECTIVES

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Increase participant knowledge of CWLA Blueprint

Increase general understanding of Implementation

Increase ability to use implementation principles to

unpack the CWLA Blueprint

Increase understanding of CWLA’s next steps to

support implementation of the Blueprint

Checking the Room Pulse

Who in the room provides direct service?

Manages an organization?

Supervises staff that provides direct service?

Who has seen the National Blueprint For Excellence in Child

Welfare?

Who is using the National Blueprint?

Who in the room has utilized implementation science principles

when integrating new or modifying existing programming?

Who in the room is interested in changing the way they work to

better serve families?

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CWLA Mission and Vision

CWLA leads and engages its network of public

and private agencies and partners to advance

policies, best practices and collaborative

strategies that result in better outcomes for

children, youth and families that are vulnerable.

Our vision is that every child will grow up in a

safe, loving, and stable family.

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Formed by a group of public and private organizations

Focus is on standard setting and advocacy

Also provide training, consultation and publications.

Celebrates 100th birthday in 2020

Mission has not changed but the way it is carried out has evolved over the years

CHILD WELFARE LEAGUE OF AMERICA

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In 1925 created standards for foster care placements

In 1938 issued first set of minimum standards for temporary vs. permanent placements

After 1955 initiated more ambitious program of standardization

Standards of Excellence done for each practice area

CWLA Standard Setting History

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Presents a vision for the future of child welfare

Child Welfare has a specific role but everyone shares responsibility for the well- being of children.

National Blueprint applies to all children

Designed as foundation on which all can create the greatest opportunities for all children and youth to succeed and flourish

National Blueprint for Excellence in Child

Welfare

CWLA STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE

CWLA National Blueprint for Excellence in Child Welfare

The foundation for CWLA Standards of Excellence and a

framework for all children, youth, and families to flourish.

CWLA Standards of Excellence for Management and

Governance of Child Welfare Services

Core volume - provides the organizational foundation for the

program-specific volumes.

Program-Specific volumes

Describe key components of the specific service.

Describe best practices with specific populations/type of

service (i.e.: pregnant and parenting adolescents, family foster

care - in a family, agency, and community context.)

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CWLA STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE

Provide values and principles that underlie services

Describes:

core elements/components of the service,

how the service connects with other services,

key worker tasks and activities

resources, staffing, and organizational supports to ensure

service quality.

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THE CWLA NATIONAL BLUEPRINT

The foundation for

CWLA Standards of

Excellence and a

framework for all

children, youth, and

families to flourish.

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VISION

All children will grow up

safely, in loving families

and supportive

communities, with

everything they need to

flourish—and with

connections to their

culture, ethnicity, race,

and language.

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CORE VALUES

We believe in integrity, fairness, social justice, dignity, & honesty.

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Children, Youth,

Families and Communities

Service

Humility

Inclusiveness

Collaboration

Trust Flexibility

Innovation

Competence

Respect

CWLA National Blueprint Principles

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Children, youth,

&families

flourish

Rights of Children

Shared Resp & leadership

Engagement

/Participation

Workforce

Quality Improvement

Supports & Services

Race, Ethnicity & Culture

Funding & Resources

Implementing Evidence-Supported

Services

Social Impact –strategies for ensuring that evidence-supported

programming realizes its potential for positive population outcomes.

Funding – strategies for ensuring that evidence-supported

programming is adequately funded.

Policy and Practice - Strategies for ensuring that policy is in service

to the evidence-supported programming.

Guidelines for Treatment and Services - Strategies for ensuring the

infrastructure and supports are in place and “in service” to the

evidence supported programming.

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I.12 Children are protected from discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, disability, gender, familial status, religion, sexual

orientation, gender identity, genetic information, language, religion, national, ethnic or social origin, political beliefs, or citizenship.

I.15 Children are protected from corporal punishment.

IV.5 Children, youth, and families have ample opportunities for safe, positive social connections within their own

communities.

National Blueprint Example of

Social Impact

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IV.14 Each entity has clearly articulated policies and procedures for assessment and service planning.

III.5 People with experience as service recipients or family members of service recipients serve as mentors; help to educate those working with children, youth,

and families; and serve on governing and/or advisory boards.

III.4 Each entity fully engages youth and families in all aspects of the work, including program design and development, policy and procedure development, hiring, staff orientation and training, practice guidelines, evaluation, and quality

improvement processes.

National Blueprint Examples of Policy and

Practice

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VIII.3 Funders collaborate with each other, with communities, and with providers to identify needs and shared priorities, promote sensible

application and eligibility criteria, identify obstacles, and allocate funds and other resources wisely.

VIII.4 Funders promote and fund concepts and strategies that are consistent with the CWLA National Blueprint’s vision, values,

principles, and standards

VIII.9 Entities with contractual and funding relationships work together to be jointly accountable and to ensure that funding for supports and services for children, youth, and families is adequate, equitable, and

that there is the wisest possible use of public and private funds.

National Blueprint Examples of Funding

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VI.14 Each person has opportunities to engage in formal and informal learning, on the job, through continuing education,

coaching or mentoring, and through collaboration with peers.

VI.7 The performance of each employee and volunteer is evaluated at least annually.

V.6 Each entity collects meaningful data to support its ability to make decisions; improve proactively; and help children, youth, and

families to achieve identified outcomes.

National Blueprint Examples of

Guidelines for Treatment and Services

Successes and Challenges

Nationally

Successes

Public Agency Leaders using it as a tool for discussion

with their community partners around how they can help

and vice versa

In Strategic Planning Process

In Advocacy with State Legislature

Community Collaborative to Assess Performance to Help

Public Child Welfare Agency Outcomes

Challenges –

Where to start

What should the outcome measures be to determine if

they have gotten there

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Successes and Challenges

For You

For those of you that have tried or been using the

National Blueprint what were some of the

challenges?

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It’s a Big World

(and a big Blueprint )

Where do I begin?

Applying the National Blueprint

o Where do I start?

o How do I make this usable?

o Is there a step by step guide?

o How do I map this out?

o Is there an organized way to use the blueprint to

get to the CW outcomes we want?

How do we shift the way we work to better serve families?

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“The systematic study of specified activities designed to put into practice activities or programs of known dimensions”

National Implementation Research Network

What?

Implementation Science

Active Implementation

Active Implementation

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Active Implementation

What works, for

whom, why, and

in what

circumstances?

Contextual fit is the match

between the strategies,

procedures, or elements of an

intervention and the values,

needs, skills and resources of

those who implement and

experience the intervention.

(Horner, Blitz & Ross, 2014)

Active Implementation

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Active Implementation

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Developing visible supports

Supports throughout the

system

and for multiple programs

-Competency Supports

-Organizational Supports

-Leadership Supports

What does Prena need to support her practice?

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• Competency Supports

Selection Process

Training Process

Coaching Process

Fidelity Assessment

Decision Support

Data Systems

Facilitative

Administration

Systems

Intervention

• Organizational Supports

• Leadership Supports

Active Implementation

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Active Implementation

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Collaboration and Teams

Communication, Learning and CQI

Active Implementation

Collaboration and Teams

Working in complex systems

requires the engagement and

influence of multiple stakeholders.

This requires a different kind of

leadership- moving from solo heroes

to collaboration and teamwork.

Active Implementation

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Implementation Team

A group of

stakeholders that oversees, attends to, and is accountable for, key functions in the selection and

implementation of an intervention by

ensuring:

Families and community members are

engaged

The practice is defined and

operationalized

Implementation supports are in place

Implementation is measured and

monitored

Outcomes are achieved and sustained

Active Implementation

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Implementation Team

What it is not!

• An advisory body

• A group that provides only

periodic input or meets during

crisis

• Technical work group

• Learning collaborative

Active Implementation

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Communication, Learning and CQI

Operational learning should be a core

value of the implementation setting

(Chambers, Glasgow, & Stange, 2014)

Dedicating time for reflecting or debriefing

before, during, and after implementation

is one way to promote shared learning

and improvements along the way

(Damschroder et al., 2009)

Active Implementation

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Communication

and Learning

Program Management

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Active IActive Implementationtation

Effective

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Enabling

Context

Improved

Outcomes

Implementation Defined. (n.d.).

Retrieved November 22, 2016, from

http://nirn.fpg.unc.edu/learn-

implementation/implementation-

defined

Intervention

Selection Teams

Data &

Communication

Drivers

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CWLA National Blueprint for

Excellence in Child Welfare!

APPLYING ACTIVE IMPLEMENTATION

UNPACKING A STANDARD USING

ACTIVE IMPLEMENTATION

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USING STANDARD III.4

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Effective

Implementation

Enabling

Context

Effective

Intervention

Socially Significant Outcome YOUTH AND FAMILY INVOLVEMENT

PROGRAMS THAT:

Engage Youth &

Families in

Programming

* participation as partners

* leadership skills

* participation in case

and/or issues of advocacy

* ask how they want to be

involved/ what constitutes

meaningful involvement.

* Communicate

engagement to

stakeholders

Focus on Youth &

Family Advocacy

INFRASTRUCTURE THAT IS IN

SERVICE TO THE INTERVENTION

(DRIVERS)

Fully engage Y & F in:

* HIRING

* TRAINING (and orientation)

* TRAINING Engagement Strategies

* COACHING - MISSING

* PERFORMANCE ASSMT - MISSING

* Evaluation (DSDS)

* FACILITATIVE ADMINISTRATION

** in policy & procedure development.

** has P & Y participation process

* SYSTEMS: communicate P & Y

participation, leadership, and advocacy

and meaningful involvement to

stakeholders and to the general public

* LEADERSHIP- MISSING

CONTEXT THAT IS

ENABLING

Conditions such as:

* Engagement of Y & F

communicated to

stakeholders and to the

general public.

* Y & F are engaged in

Quality Improvement

Processes

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Do we have to do this for every

standard in order to implement the

blueprint?

We Hope Not!

We are working on securing funding

for an Implementation Guide where

this will be done for you!

IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE

Unpacking the National Blueprint Around Active Implementation!

• Socially Significant Outcomes

• Interventions

• Implementation Supports

• Competency focused - hiring, training, coaching

• Organizational focused– data systems, facilitative administration, systems

• Leadership focused

• Enabling Context

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MAKING LIFE EASIER

An Implementation Guide that REALLY Guides

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Start with the outcomes – what are you trying to achieve?

Identify Interventions to Get to those Outcomes

Identify Implementation Supports that are “in service to” the Intervention

Identify Conditions that will Enable the Intervention to Thrive

LOOK AT THAT!

The Blueprint is Very Active

Implementation Informed!

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Next Steps - Implementation Guide

CWLA Advisory Group Overseeing Development

of the Implementation Guide

Seeking funding to complete the guide and test it

in the field

Identifying Existing and Developing New

Resources

Dissemination – Sometime next year

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Buy the National Blueprint -http://www.cwla.org/our-work/cwla-standards-of-excellence/national-blueprint-for-excellence-in-child-

welfare/

Look for the Readiness Assessment Tool – by end of 2017

Attend the CWLA National Conference in Washington, DC April 26-28, 2018 http://www.cwla.org/resilience2018/

Become a CWLA member and join the National Blueprint Community of Practice - http://www.cwla.org/membership/

What You Can Do Now

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RAFFLE!

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CONTACT INFORMATION

Julie Collins MSW LCSW

VP Practice Excellence

CWLA

jcollins@cwla.org

www.cwla.org

Nancy Gagliano, MSW

Assistant Director, Strategic Development

NJ Department of Children & Families

Nancy.gagliano@dcf.state.nj.us

www.state.nj.us/dcf