9 Proven Strategies to Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Your Workplace
This article lists 9 ways to improve DEIB within your workplace.
Document Category: Recruitment and Selection
Championing the Role of Child Welfare Professionals
A brief summary of how some states are working with communities to create an organizational climate that champions social work in ways that improve outcomes for children. Tips for success are outlined.
NCWWI Recruitment and Selection Reference List
This comprehensive reference list includes a compilation of papers, reports, peer-reviewed journal articles and other relevant resources addressing Recruitment, Screening and Selection.
QIC-WD Workforce Interventions
This video describes common challenges and the important role workers had in selecting a workforce intervention to test as part of the QIC-WD project. It also summarizes the interventions selected to address a variety of workforce strategies.
Louisiana: Redesigning the Child Welfare Worker Job
The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services redesigned the child welfare worker job to strengthen their workforce and reduce worker turnover. DCFS worked with the QIC-WD to create a new job, the Child Welfare Team Specialist, and reorganize workers into Permanency and Prevention teams. This video discusses the challenges DCFS faced related to turnover …
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An Overview of the QIC-WD
The Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development (QIC-WD) is dedicated to understanding how to improve child welfare workforce outcomes.
Virginia Case-Supportive Technology
The Virginia Department of Social Services and select local child welfare agencies implemented a case-supportive technology intervention to strengthen their child welfare workforce. This video, recorded virtually, highlights the experience of workers and supervisors that used transcription services and a mobile application to improve their ability to work outside the office.
Standardized Competency-based Hiring Process
The Oklahoma Department of Human Services, worked with the QIC-WD to standardize their child welfare hiring practices. This video highlights how they created their new competency-based selection process and shares the experiences of staff and leaders who’ve participated in the new process.
Recruitment
An overview of recruitment, its value, and how recruitment efforts can be improved.
Realistic Job Previews
An overview of realistic job previews, their value, and how they work.