Leadership Academy

Through the impetus of the Children’s Bureau, systemic changes in child welfare are occurring, prompted by CFSR principles and guided by Systems of Care values. More imperative now than ever before is skilled leadership that will ensure the ongoing improvement and sustainability of these positive systems change efforts. Our leadership training and development approach will enhance the ability of supervisors and middle managers to initiate and support organizational transformations that lead to improved outcomes for children, families, and communities.

This service of the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute is called a Leadership Academy because its evidence-based approach builds on current leadership and adult learning theories as well as evaluation data and best practices. The Academy’s purpose is to develop and implement a distributive, adaptive, and inclusive child welfare leadership training model for Supervisors and middle managers that will complement existing workforce and professional development initiatives in the field and promote transfer of learning to the workplace.