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Beyond Child Welfare Education & Training: Pennsylvania’s Dynamic University-Agency Partnership for Transfer of Learning, Quality Improvement & Organizational Effectiveness (1-page Summary)
This document summarizes a NCWWI webinar that highlights the array of workforce development strategies implemented through this dynamic university-agency partnership.…
Biases: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This document describes the biases that can create barriers to organizational change and gives pointed recommendations for confronting and changing…
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Building a Culturally Responsive Workforce: The Texas Model for Undoing Disproportionality & Disparities in Child Welfare (1-page Summary)
This document summarizes a NCWWI webinar that highlights a collection of strategies for building a culturally responsive workforce based upon…
Caseload/Workload Studies: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This paper summarizes the three research briefs which provides information summarizing recent studies and reports that underscore the importance of…
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Casework Teaming to Manage Workload, Enhance Effectiveness and Boost Morale (1-page Summary)
This document summarizes a NCWWI webinar on casework teaming designed reduce caseworker isolation and workload; improve workforce retention; and strengthen…
Child Welfare Staff Engagement & Retention in Washington DC: Alternative Work Schedules, Telecommuting & Other Supports (1-page Summary)
This document summarizes a NCWWI webinar that shares essential elements for employee engagement and retention strategies. Link to webinar is…
ChildStat: Leading Systems-level Improvements based on Case-level Experiences (1-page Summary)
This document summarizes a NCWWI webinar that showcases the development, implementation, and outcomes of ChildStat, a creative, data-driven, systemic leadership…
Citizen Involvement in Child Welfare: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This document summarizes the article “What Do We Know About Strategies for Involving Citizens in Public Child Welfare: A Review…
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Coaching to Support Solution-based Casework in Child Welfare (1-page Summary)
This document summarizes a NCWWI webinar that highlights the core elements of a solution-based casework coaching model necessary to support…
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Cohort Effect: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This article reports findings from an evaluation of a university-based child welfare training program focusedon increasing the retention of knowledgeable,…
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Commitment in Public Child Welfare: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This document summarizes three journal articles that highlight findings of research exploring influences on recruitment and retention of public and…
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Competency-based Recruitment, Screening & Selection: Strengthening Workforce Capacity, Retention & Organizational Resiliency (1-page Summary)
This document summarizes a NCWWI webinar that highlights multiple strategies and interventions to enhance an agency’s capacity to recruit, select,…
Cultural Competence: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This document summarizes the article “Beyond Cultural Competence: What Child Protection Managers Need to Know and Do” which addresses issues…
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Cultural Responsiveness: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This document summarizes an article that discusses the initiative "The Diversity Scorecard" being implemented in higher education to address closing the achievement…
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Culturally Competent Systems of Care: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This paper summarizes the article, “Culturally Competent Systems Of Care with Latino Children and Families”, which describes an evaluation of…
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Data-driven Performance Improvement: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This paper summarizes the article “Use Of Data to Assess Performance And Promote Outcome Achievement by Public and Private Child…
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Decision-making in Child Protection: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This paper summarizes a study focused on the second cohort of the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being that…
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Design Teams & Learning Circles: Agency- & Unit-level Interventions for Improving Organizational Climate & Culture (1-page Summary)
This document summarizes a NCWWI webinar that shares two innovative methods supported by the Western Workforce Project sites in Denver,…
Distance Education: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This document summarizes assessment data on a workforce development strategy (Pathways Program) which provides accredited social work education, beginning with advising…
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Diversity in Leadership: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This paper shares findings from two studies that examined the influence of racial similarity/dissimilarity on supervisor and subordinate relationships and…
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Educational Preparation: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This document summarizes an article addressing the use of Title IV-E funding in both BSW and MSW programs and looks…
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Emotional Intelligence for Leaders: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This paper summarizes the chapter, “On Leadership” by D. Goleman which describes that while intellect, big picture thinking, and long-term…
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Evidence-based Practice Implementation Model: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This paper summarizes the article “Advancing a Conceptual Model of Evidence-Based Practice Implementation in Public Service Sectors,” which proposes a…
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Evidence-based Practice Implementation: NCWWI 1-Page Summary
This 1-page summary provides an overview of the three core components of organizational readiness for evidence-based practices identified in the…
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Evidence-based Practice: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This document summarizes an article examining the ways in which evidence-based practice (EBP) implementation has been shaped by organizational context and processes…
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Evidence-based Practices in Child Welfare: Opportunities & Challenges for the Workforce (1-page Summary)
This document summarizes a NCWWI webinar that provides an in-depth overview of evidence-based practices (EBP) in child welfare. Link to…
Impact of Public Perceptions on Child Welfare Workers: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This paper summarizes the article, “Measuring the impact of public perceptions on child welfare workers” which explores how societal perceptions…
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Implementing Evidence-based interventions: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This paper summarizes the article, “Overcoming Challenges to Implementing and Evaluating Evidence-Based Interventions in Child Welfare: A Matter of Necessity,”…
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Implications of Mindfulness-Informed Interventions for Trauma-Focused Practice: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This resource summarizes a study that evaluated the results of providing mindfulness training sessions to parents. (2019)
Improving Supervision by Collaboration, Transparency & Accountability: The Impact of Missouri's Supervision Advisory Committee (1-page Summary)
This document summarizes a NCWWI webinar that highlights action steps and strategies taken to organize, develop and sustain the Supervision…
Inclusive Organizations: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This document summarizes contemporary research across the social sciences to provide evidence-based recommendations for leveraging diversity and the individual-level (employees…
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Internal and External Job Resources:1-page Summary
This document summarizes a study that used the Job Demands and Resources (JD-R) Model with 1,917 caseworkers from three states…
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Leadership and Inclusion: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This document explores the role of authentic leadership (AL) in enhancing perceptions of inclusion and also examines two outcomes potentially related…
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Learning & Living the NCWWI Leadership Model (1-page Summary)
This document summarizes a NCWWI webinar that provides an in-depth exploration of the NCWWI’s Leadership Model for child welfare. Link…
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Learning Organizations: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This paper summarizes the article “Strategies for Transforming Human Service Organizations into Learning Organizations: Knowledge Management and the Transfer of…
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Meaningful Family Involvement: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This document summarizes the article “New Roles for Families in Child Welfare” which examines the strategies and approaches child welfare…
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Mentoring Child Welfare Staff: NCWWI 1-page Summary
The paper summarizes the article “Initiating and Sustaining a Mentoring Program for Child Welfare Staff,” which describes an evaluation of…
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Microaggressions (1-page Summary)
This document summarizes an article that evaluates microaggressions and proposes possible approaches to handling situations in which microaggressions occur. The…
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Microaggressions in the Child Welfare Workplace: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This resource summarizes the qualitative responses on the topic of microaggressions in the workplace from 30 social workers who identified…
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Moderating Abusive Supervision: NCWWI 1-page Summary
According to research, almost 60% of employees will experience an abusive supervisor in their workplace. This article summary looks at the…
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New Jersey Fellows: Building Capacity in "Managing by Data" to Improve Leadership, Frontline Practice & Case Outcomes (1-page Summary)
This document summarizes a NCWWI webinar that showcases an innovative program to build capacity in “managing by data” to support…
Organizational Climate Interventions: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This paper summarizes two research studies provide information regarding the impact of two targeted organizational interventions on caseworker turnover and…
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Organizational Culture: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This paper summarizes two research studies that address the impact of individual, supervisory, and organizational factors on organizational culture and…
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Organizational Environment: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This document summarizes a journal article that examines the direct and indirect effects of climate and culture on outcomes for…
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Organizational Leadership: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This paper summarizes the article “Organizational Leadership and Its Impact on Social Workers’ Job Satisfaction: A National Study”, which reports…
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Organizational Readiness: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This paper provides a summary of the new 7-factor model that reflects the items that most contribute to organizational readiness…
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Organizational Social Context: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This paper summarizes the article “Assessing the Organizational Social Context (OSC) of Child Welfare Systems: Implications for Research and Practice,”…
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Organizational Support and Turnover Intention: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This paper summarizes an article exploring the roles of leader–member exchange (LMX, or the relationship between supervisor and caseworker) and…
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Performance Measurement: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This document summarizes findings from a collaborative initiative and qualitative study that examined the experiences of four nonprofit human service…
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Promoting Racial Equity Through Workforce and Organizational Actions Infographic
This infographic visually describes what racial equity is in child welfare, why we need to take action, and provides suggestions…
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