In 2001, Casey Family Programs launched its first Breakthrough Series Collaborative (BSC), an innovative model of quality improvement and systems change, to focus on prevailing issues in child welfare. In a BSC, Casey convenes teams from around the country to test strategies and tools on a small scale in target sites, then share lessons learned and implement the most successful strategies throughout their systems. Casey has held the following BSCs to date:
- Improving Health Care for Children in Foster Care
- Recruiting and Retaining Resource Families
- Differential Response
- Kinship Care
- Reducing Disproportionality and Disparate Outcomes for Children and Families of Color in the Child Welfare System
This four-page briefing describes how Casey adapted the BSC methodology from the health care field, how it has used the BSC to address a variety of challenging issues in child welfare, and the results of the BSC in bridging the gaps between knowledge and practice.
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