How are child protection agencies navigating and addressing workforce challenges?
Learn how several jurisdictions are implementing strategies to recruit and retain a strong child welfare workforce.
Education/Professional Development
What Makes a Good Learning Culture: NCWWI 1-page Summary
Researchers drew on social learning theory (SLT) to study the relationship between learning culture and preparation for work and professional development among child welfare caseworkers (n = 1,790) using secondary organizational health survey data collected through a multi-site child welfare workforce project.
Preventing Childhood Toxic Stress: Partnering With Families and Communities to Promote Relational Health
This policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics describes how relational health can be employed to build resilience and mitigate childhood toxic stress by partnering with families and communities. A paradigm shift from a problem-focused model to a solution-based approach would actively engage youth and their families in developing strategies to cope with current …
What Works Cities Certification
The What Works Cities is a certification that city governments can receive for making strides toward improving quality of life for their residents. Giving special attention to communities and their needs is paramount to achieving this certification and included qualities like implementing permanent housing for homeless individuals, empowering residents to have a voice in improving …
Community Prevention Initiative
The Community Prevention Initiative (CPI) provides substance use disorder prevention (SUD Pv) training and technical assistance and capacity building services to support SUD Pv workforce development throughout California. CPI seeks to empower people to successfully respond to the dynamic, complex, and shifting SUD Pv needs across the state.
30 Years of Knowledge Building for an Effective Kin-First Culture: A Natural Family Resource for Children in and out of the Child Welfare System
An examination of how child welfare policy in this country has failed children, youth, families, and their communities for decades and Black families since 1619. The timeline pictured gives the reader an outline of the failed policies impacting the poor, Black, and Brown families who have and are touching the child welfare system. Second, the …
Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI) – Prop 64 Roadmap
In this roadmap created by the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI), advocates and academics lay out how marijuana tax revenues can be invested into communities and vulnerable youth, as well as families and caregivers. By emphasizing a healing-centered and trauma-informed approach, the roadmap describes how stable relationships, coaching for local organizations, cross-sector collaboration, …
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The Potential of Motivational Interviewing
With MI now an approved practice for federal funding under the Family First Prevention Services Act, Chapin Hall is committed to helping agencies implement this practice with fidelity to ensure the best outcomes for families. This guide provides a roadmap through the MI planning and implementation process including: planning and readiness, implementation and change management, …
The Data Equity Framework
The Data Equity Framework is a systematic process that provides you with a set of tools, checklists, and practices that allow you to identify and understand each place in your work where you are embedding a worldview or prioritizing a lived experience. It equips you and your team to make those choices intentionally in a …
Peer Groups
The Center for States offers opportunities for child welfare professionals to connect virtually with peers working in similar practice areas or on common initiatives through networks called peer groups. This page provides an overview of these peer groups and steps to request membership.