NCWWI Webinar Series

Past Webinar Series

During this 3-part learning exchange series panelists and participants explore how universities and child welfare programs collaborate to enhance ICWA knowledge and practice, advance workplace equity, and engage emerging leaders as a retention strategy.

Collaborating to Enhance ICWA Knowledge and Practice (March 2022)
Advancing Workplace Equity (April 2022)
Engaging Emerging Leaders as a Retention Strategy (May 2022)

This 5-part discussion series addresses how child welfare leaders have supported their workforce in building resiliency during the pandemic.

Providing Operational Workforce Supports

Leveraging Key Partnerships

Understanding Moral Distress

Supporting Self-care at the System Level

Connecting to Cultural Ways

This series of Innovations Exchanges, held monthly from July through November 2020, builds on NCWWI’s Supporting the Virtual Workforce webinar series by providing child welfare leaders (supervisors, managers, directors, and administrators) a forum to discuss what we’ve learned and share best practices.

Leadership and Supervision
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Inclusivity, Racial Equity, and Community Engagement
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Practice Supports
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Work Conditions, Benefits, and Organizational Culture/Climate
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Education and Professional Development
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Child welfare programs are scrambling to address the new reality of a virtual workforce by converting existing workforce development activities to online formats while planning to maintain high quality services for families and job satisfaction for employees. NCWWI will host a series of 75-minute webinars, providing a platform for child welfare colleagues to exchange ideas, innovations, and resources for supporting a workforce that has now become virtual. NCWWI facilitators will help participants to share what they are learning about this new environment and ask questions of those who have already moved into these virtual spaces.

Webinar Recording

Held on Thursday, September 26, 2019, in this webinar you will learn about NCWWI’s newly revised workforce development framework as applied to the State of Indiana. Meaningful workforce development implies more than just a quick-fix, but a long-term, robust, and sustainable approach to workforce development that really makes a difference. Hear LaTrece Thompson, Deputy Director of Staff Development, describe Indiana’s journey to improve their workforce development approach through the lens of the NCWWI framework, exploring various workforce development components and a phased implementation approach that can also be applied to your jurisdiction.