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Readiness Video Series

The readiness webinar provides an overview of how to assess agency readiness to put new programs and practices in place. The companion guide contains activities designed to help agency teams explore how they might use the strategies presented in the recorded webinar to assess agency readiness and plan next steps.

Motivation and Capacity: Factors That Influence Organizational Readiness

Change and Implementation in Practice: Readiness Webinar

The readiness webinar summarizes the process of assessing agency readiness for a child welfare change and implementation process. It includes an overview of how an agency might facilitate the process of assessing readiness to put new programs and practices in place,as well as stories from the field on what assessing readiness looks like in practice.
 

Readiness Discussion and Activity Guide

Readiness Videos

These Readiness videos can help you gain a deeper understanding of assessing organizational readiness for the change and implementation process. As you watch, record your ideas and questions in the related workbook to help you apply what you are learning to your own practice.

Readiness Video Workbook

Video 1: Why Do a Readiness Assessment?

Examines why teams should understand the factors influencing readiness, use a structured approach to develop and conduct readiness assessments, and analyze results. This video helps teams understand what needs to be in place before assessing readiness and sets up teams for success as part of a change and implementation process at a child welfare agency.

Video 2: Consider Factors That Contribute to Readiness

Explores how the factors of motivation, general capacity, and intervention-specific capacity influence agency readiness for change. This video provides examples of and considerations for conducting readiness assessments.

Video 3: Developing an Assessment Approach

Presents factors that may impact plans to conduct an assessment, how teams can clearly communicate the need for the readiness assessment, and what teams need to consider before conducting an assessment.

Video 4: Conduct the Readiness Assessment

Explores how the factors of motivation, general capacity, and intervention-specific capacity influence agency readiness for change. This video provides examples of and considerations for conducting readiness assessments.

Video 5: Analyze Results and Determine Next Steps

Reviews the final tasks of assessing agency readiness: analyzing results and determining next steps. This video explores how teams analyze assessment results, what conditions or connections help determine next steps, and why teams should reassess over time and at multiple points in the process.