UNIVERSAL TA
Knowledge Into Action
The National Center connects systems, builds workforce capacity, and expands access to adoption competent mental health care so children, youth, and families can achieve greater stability, permanency, and well-being.
Universal TA is Knowledge Management and Dissemination.
Knowledge management and dissemination help capture lessons learned, best practices, and participant feedback. It provides the analytical lens to evaluate what’s working, what’s not, and what needs to change.
Knowledge management and dissemination accelerates planning by reducing reinvention and encouraging knowledge reuse.
Change often requires new skills, systems, or behaviors. Knowledge management and dissemination ensures that knowledge is not just available but contextual, easily accessible, and aligned with real-time needs. It ensures that new processes, knowledge, and behaviors are institutionalized. It keeps the knowledge fresh, socialized, and part of the organizational fabric through continuous updates, communities of practice, and knowledge-sharing rituals.
Knowledge management and dissemination is the secret weapon that ensures your change initiatives stick.
The Knowledge Hub
The National Center’s Knowledge Hub serves as its universal technical assistance platform, providing accessible, high-quality resources and tools that strengthen the adoption competent mental health workforce and support evidence-informed child welfare and mental health systems.
Key National Center Resources
Adoption Competence Primers for Various Audiences
Adoption Competent Therapy and Trauma-Informed Care
National Center and Cross-System Collaboration
From ACES to Action
Strengthening CCBHC Workforce Capacity:
Looking for Additional Resources?
Visit the Knowledge Hub to access models of intervention, training resources, and practical tools to strengthen cross-system collaboration and improve outcomes for children, youth, and families.