ABSTRACT
This concluding chapter highlights critical themes that emerged from the book and provides a conceptual framework for transformation: the “Transformation Equation.” The editors then call on the field to make the 2020’s the “Decade of Residential Best Practice.” The field is challenged to take change to the next level; to identify, address and reach a host of big aspirational goals for the new decade, including a commitment to focus on permanency, youth and family engagement, equity, diversity and inclusion, workforce development and training, data collection and analysis and expanding the evidence base. The chapter and book conclude with a family member story of transformation and hope.
