How Do We Build Organizational Capacity in Child Welfare?

This is the third of three briefs about organizational capacity in child welfare.

It explores models for building capacity that have been applied in child welfare organizations, including the American Public Human Services Association’s Organizational Effectiveness Capacity Building Model, the Interactive Systems Framework, and the Children’s Bureau’s Capacity Building Collaborative approach.

The first brief in the series, What Is Organizational Capacity and What Does It Look Like in Child Welfare?, describes key capacities including resources, infrastructure, knowledge and skills, organizational culture and climate, and engagement and partnership. The second brief, How Can Organizational Capacity be Measured?, reviews measures of those capacities found in the literature.