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.
This document provides examples of competencies and related behavioral indicators that are designed to reflect the knowledge and skills representative of excellence in child welfare practice.
The Council of Social Work Education (CSWE) sets national standards for the identification and assessment of competencies in the education of social work students through the Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS). This document details the competencies within EPAS for Title IV-E stipend recipients within California.
This collection of syllabi from the NCWWI Traineeships reflect examples of new courses that focus on child welfare practice as well as longstanding courses where child welfare information has been infused into existing content. The collection is intended to be a resource for undergraduate and graduate social work programs illustrating of the range of approaches …
This document provides information on what states have been doing to train and support child welfare supervisors, along with available curricula and materials.
This webpage offers a comprehensive listing of all the competencies required for child welfare staff to do their jobs, which are the criteria used to assess individual training needs from which aggregate training needs for an agency, county, region, or the whole state are determined.
The video provides an overview of the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute (NCWWI) through the perspectives of NCWWI’s diverse partnerships. It explains how NCWWI’s workforce development activities promote learning, leading and changing, as well as how NCWWI’s data-driven capacity building, education, and professional development prepares and supports the commitment of leaders to pursue excellence and …
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This survey contains a list of competencies specific to the child welfare field, and used by new workers and their supervisors to help track individual learning needs with the ultimate goal of developing proficiency in the job.
This graph outlines practice competencies for those working in child protective services.
This webpage offers a comprehensive listing of all the competencies required for child welfare staff to do their jobs, which are the criteria used to assess individual training needs from which aggregate training needs for an agency, county, region, or the whole state are determined.
