Strategic Planning Resources • Strategic Planning T/TA • Strategic Planning Tools

In addition to on-site technical assistance and training, we have covered strategic planning topics in many of our teleconferences, newsletters and publications.

Teleconferences – Strategic Planning

To order teleconference tapes and handouts, take note of the stock number after the • and order these, along with any publications, using our order form. (Note: the stock number indicates the date of the call: T040104 was held on 4/1/04.)

Planning
Strategic Planning: How to Move Your Agency Toward Improved Outcomes through Strategic Planning • T021204
Strategic Planning: How to Move Your Agency Toward Improved Outcomes through Strategic Planning • T030204
Program Improvement Planning: What Have We Learned from the First Year of PIP Implementation? • T040804
PIP Measurement Strategies • T041304
Child and Family Services Reviews—Lessons Learned • T032003
Engaging Stakeholders in Program Improvements • T032703
Developing Program Improvement Plans: A Federal Update • T040803
Program Improvement Planning for Systemic Change in Child Welfare Practice – Part I • T041503
Program Improvement Planning for Systemic Change in Child Welfare Practice – Part II • T041703
Measuring and Reporting Progress on Program Improvement Plans • T042203
Overcoming Systemic Barriers to Concurrent Planning • T042903

Organizational Improvement Strategies
Using Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA) Resources Strategically to Improve Your Agency • T051205
So Your PIP Is Over: Ongoing Program Improvement • T050505
Investing In Front End Services• T042904
Getting Providers on Board: Outcomes Focused Contracting• T091604
Supporting Permanent Placements: Post-Permanency Services• T061004

Systemic Change/Leadership
Leadership Teleconference • T101805
Engaging Providers in Systems Reform • T111005
Successful Media Strategies: Working with the Media to Improve the Image of Child Welfare • T051804
Making and Sustaining Cultural Change • T060104
Child Welfare Leadership’s Use of Data and Information • T090904
Managing Child Welfare Agencies in a Time of Limited Resources • T052003

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Managing Care Newsletters – Strategic Planning

Implementing Program Improvement Plans (Winter 2004)
Vermont • Oklahoma * Resources * QI Corner

Effective Strategies for Leaders: Interviews with Departing Directors (Spring/Summer, 2003)
Recommended Reading • Resources • Agency Inventory and Assessment Tool • QA Corner

Strategic Planning for Child Welfare Agencies (Spring. 2002)
The Nebraska Family Portrait: Making a Difference for Children and Families • How Program Improvement Plans Can Build on the Title IV-B Child and Family Services Planning Process • Checklist for Strategic Planning for Child Welfare Agencies• Technical Assistance on Strategic Planning from the Resource Center and Other Resources

Publications – Strategic Planning

For a full description and information on ordering these publications, go to publications. If the publication is underlined, click on the title to download it.

Strategic Planning for Child Welfare Agencies (2004)

The Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA)Training Series:

• ASFA and the Child and Family Services Review (CFSR): Using Outcomes to Achieve Results (2003)
• Action Planning: A Problem Solving Tool (2003)
• Collaboration with Native American Tribes: ICWA and ASFA (2003)
• Using Data to Measure Success (2003)
• Change is All Around Us: Tools to Build Commitment to Change (2003)
• Collaboration with Courts (2004)

Bringing Together the Child Welfare Team (2002)
Managing for Outcomes in Child Welfare: Trainer's Manual (2002)
Using Information Management to Support the Goals of Safety, Permanency and Well Being (2000)
Implementing Concurrent Planning: A Handbook for Child Welfare Administrators (2001)
Overcoming Barriers to Permanence (1993)
Creating Kinship (1996)
Creating Kinship: A Journey with the Kinship Alliance (video, 1996)