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| Title | Content | Categories | Year:Custom Field 1:Year |
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| Interdisciplinary Education Reference List | This reference list provides resources on interdisciplinary approaches that support children and their families. Learn more at ncwwi.org/interdisciplinary-education-projects. | Education/Professional Development | 2024 |
| Interdisciplinary Education Skills Infographic | Review this infographic to learn the skills you can develop to support an interdisciplinary approach at your organization. Learn more … | Education/Professional Development | 2024 |
| NCWWI Interdisciplinary Education Projects | In July 2021, NCWWI partnered with three sites to expand or enhance a current interdisciplinary education program designed to prepare … | Education/Professional Development | 2024 |
| Integrated Curriculum Guide for Social Work Practice With American Indians and Alaska Natives in Child Welfare | This guide provides a curricular framework based upon the Council on Social Work Education’s (CSWE) Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards … | Cultural Responsiveness, Education/Professional Development, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Tribal Child Welfare, Tribal Sovereignty | 2024 |
| Intercultural Development Inventory Overview Video | This video will help you learn more about the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) and how it can help you learn … | Advancing Racial Equity, Cultural Responsiveness, Inclusivity/Racial Equity | 2024 |
| Why Engaging People with Lived Experience is Critical to Systems Change | This infographic describes why engaging people with lived experience is critical to systems change and provides themes and actions that … | Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, System Reform | 2024 |
| Essential Communication Skills: A Foundation for Success | This learning series is designed to elevate your communication skills, specifically empowering you to build robust public support, drive sustainable … | Change Implementation, Communication, System Reform | 2024 |
| NCWWI University Partnerships Cross-Site Final Evaluation Report | This evaluation report provides an assessment of grants awarded to nine schools of social work and partnering agencies or partnering … | Change Implementation, Education/Professional Development, University Partnerships | 2024 |
| Workforce Excellence (WE) Initiative Implementation Evaluation: Final Cross-Site Report for Public Sites | This report is a mixed-methods evaluation of NCWWI’s efforts to support the design and implementation of Workforce Excellence (WE) initiatives … | Change Implementation, Workforce Development Planning | 2024 |
| NCWWI University Partnerships 2022 Stipend Alumni Study Report | From 2009 to 2019, the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute (NCWWI) awarded child welfare stipends to 649 BSW and MSW … | Education/Professional Development, University Partnerships, Work Conditions and Benefits, Workforce Development Planning | 2024 |
| The Little Things that Make a Big Difference: NCWWI Breakthrough Series Collaborative Public Site Evaluation Report | This is an evaluation report for the NCWWI Breakthrough Series Collaborative (BSC) aimed at cultivating a sustainable workforce within organizations … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Continuous Quality Improvement, Data-Driven Decision Making, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Workforce Development Planning | 2024 |
| Comprehensive Organizational Health Assessment (COHA) Public Workforce Excellence Sites 2019-2023 Cross-Site Summary Report | From June to August of 2019, NCWWI evaluators conducted Comprehensive Organizational Health Assessments (COHAs) and Tribal Comprehensive Organizational Health Assessments … | Change Implementation, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Recruitment and Selection, Supervision, Work Conditions and Benefits, Workforce Development Planning | 2024 |
| Child Welfare Training Manual for Engaging With American Indian Alaska Native (AIAN) Children and Families | The training’s main purpose is to better equip public and tribal child welfare workers for competent practice and meaningful engagement … | Cultural Responsiveness, Education/Professional Development, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Training, Trauma-informed Practice, Tribal Child Welfare, Tribal Sovereignty | 2024 |
| NCWWI Education and Professional Development Reference List | This comprehensive reference list includes a compilation of papers, reports, peer-reviewed journal articles and other relevant resources addressing Professional Development. | Education/Professional Development | 2023 |
| 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 … | Recruitment | 2023 |
| NCWWI Supervision and Performance Management Reference List | This comprehensive reference list includes a compilation of papers, reports, peer-reviewed journal articles and other relevant resources addressing Supervision and … | Supervision | 2023 |
| NCWWI Workload Reference List | This comprehensive reference list includes a compilation of papers, reports, peer-reviewed journal articles and other relevant resources addressing workload | Workload | 2023 |
| NCWWI Work Conditions and Benefits Reference List | This comprehensive reference list includes a compilation of papers, reports, peer-reviewed journal articles and other relevant resources addressing work conditions … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2023 |
| NCWWI Practice Supports Reference List | This comprehensive reference list includes a compilation of papers, reports, peer-reviewed journal articles and other relevant resources addressing Practice Supports | Practice Supports | 2023 |
| NCWWI Organizational Culture and Climate Reference List | This comprehensive reference list includes a compilation of papers, reports, peer-reviewed journal articles and other relevant resources addressing organizational culture … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2023 |
| NCWWI Inclusivity and Racial Equity Reference List | This comprehensive reference list includes a compilation of papers, reports, peer-reviewed journal articles and other relevant resources addressing inclusivity and … | Inclusivity/Racial Equity | 2023 |
| NCWWI Community Engagement Reference List | This comprehensive reference list includes a compilation of papers, reports, peer-reviewed journal articles and other relevant resources addressing community engagement. | Community Engagement | 2023 |
| Assessing Trauma in American Indian/Alaska Native Parents as an ICWA Active Effort: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This summary examines the correlation between American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) parents who are involved in ICWA cases, their exposure to … | Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, Trauma-informed Practice, Tribal Child Welfare, Tribal Sovereignty | 2023 |
| COVID-19 Lessons Learned for Child Welfare: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This resource explores child welfare caseworkers’ perspectives on how organizational changes during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic affected … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, Work Conditions and Benefits, Workforce Development Planning | 2023 |
| The Impact of Turnover on Families Involved in Child Welfare | This brief consists of thirty resources divided into three sections (Impact, Community Voice, and Systems Transformation) that examine the impact … | Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Data-Driven Decision Making, Policy Impact, System Reform, Turnover, Workforce Development Planning | 2023 |
| The Center for Regional and Tribal Welfare Studies: Systems Change Through a Relational Anishinaabe Worldview: NCWWI 1-page Summary | As the third paper in a series of three, this article presents a study on the Anishinaabe worldview perspectives of … | Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Education/Professional Development, Tribal Child Welfare, Tribal Sovereignty | 2023 |
| NCWWI Leadership Academy: Cross-site final evaluation report, pre-training to 6-month follow-up | Evaluators from NCWWI conducted a longitudinal assessment of Leadership Academy participant experience (satisfaction, relevance, knowledge gains and application, change project, … | Adaptive Leadership, Change Implementation, Coaching, Education/Professional Development, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Performance Management, Supervision, Training, Workforce Development Planning | 2023 |
| Measuring Child Welfare Workers Physiological Stress: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This study explores physiological stress among child welfare professionals before and after the removal of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions in June … | Burnout, Data-Driven Decision Making, Education/Professional Development, Organizational Culture and Climate, Policy Impact, Retention, Trauma-informed Practice, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2023 |
| Why Addressing STS in the Workforce is Important | Discusses the importance of organizations making space for staff discussion, well-being, and working at the organizational level to address Secondary … | Burnout, Retention, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2023 |
| Workforce Well-being—Centering Yourself to Better Support Others | Dr. Amelia Franck Meyer presents practical tips and tools for us to integrate well-being into our lives, our work, and … | Burnout, Retention, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2023 |
| Peer Groups | The Center for States offers opportunities for child welfare professionals to connect virtually with peers working in similar practice areas … | Education/Professional Development, Organizational Culture and Climate, Training | 2023 |
| Resources to Support Title IV-E Prevention Program Planning | Find resources to put plans into action and navigate both the technical and adaptive challenges of prevention planning and implementation … | Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Prevention/Early Intervention | 2023 |
| Programs and Services in Approved State Prevention Program Plans | Find out where evidence-based programs and services are being implemented to prevent children from entering foster care. | Policy Impact, Prevention/Early Intervention | 2023 |
| Prevention Planning Into Action | Use this collection of resources to support your agency’s prevention planning efforts. | Prevention/Early Intervention | 2023 |
| Resilient Wisconsin | This webpage provided by the Wisconsin state government provides information about building resiliencies within ourselves, relationships, and communities, including how … | Practice Supports, Prevention/Early Intervention, Trauma-informed Practice | 2023 |
| New Study to Apply Race Equity Lens to Federal Child Welfare Data | In a new project funded by the federal government, Chapin Hall and partners at Georgia State University will apply a … | Advancing Racial Equity, Cultural Responsiveness, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity | 2023 |
| When Children are Not Safe in Out-of-Home Care | This project will be the first to use national data to take a comprehensive look at the incidence of child … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2023 |
| What is Community Engaged Research (CER)? | Community engaged research is a process that incorporates input from people who the research outcomes will impact and involves such … | Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Data-Driven Decision Making, Family-Centered Practice, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Organizational Culture and Climate, Practice Supports | 2023 |
| Thriving Families Safer Children Equitable Compensation Taskforce Report | The Thriving Families Safer Children (TFSC) movement includes 22 sites nationwide as well as lived expert leaders and five national … | Change Implementation, Coaching, Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, Disproportionality & Disparities, Family-Centered Practice, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Organizational Culture and Climate, Practice Models, Practice Supports, Prevention/Early Intervention, Supervision, System Reform, Trauma-informed Practice, Vision, Mission, and Values | 2023 |
| #WeHealUs | #WeHealUs is a grassroots campaign that amplifies hard work in building resilience and healing as more individuals, organizations, and governments … | Prevention/Early Intervention, Trauma-informed Practice | 2023 |
| Bikers Against Child Abuse | Bikers Against Child Abuse is an organization that was created in order to provide a safe environment for children who … | Community Engagement | 2023 |
| Cape Fear Collective | The Cape Fear Collective is an organization driving systemic change in southeastern North Carolina through partnerships with community organizations and … | Advancing Racial Equity, Community Engagement, Prevention/Early Intervention | 2023 |
| Community Prevention Initiative | The Community Prevention Initiative (CPI) provides substance use disorder prevention (SUD Pv) training and technical assistance and capacity building services … | Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, Education/Professional Development, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Prevention/Early Intervention, Training, Trauma-informed Practice | 2023 |
| Trauma-Informed Libraries | This webpage is a PACEs Connection community of library professionals and library supporters who seek to share ACEs Science with … | Cultural Responsiveness, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Prevention/Early Intervention, Trauma-informed Practice | 2023 |
| What Works Cities Certification | The What Works Cities is a certification that city governments can receive for making strides toward improving quality of life … | Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Continuous Quality Improvement, Data-Driven Decision Making, Evidence-Based Practice | 2023 |
| Connect Our Kids | Connect Our Kids is a non profit that offers a free family finding technology platform that is reconnecting youth in … | Family-Centered Practice, Practice Supports | 2023 |
| Compassion in Action Podcast | In this podcast series, Fritzi Horstman converses with experts about bringing trauma-informed approaches to the forefront. | Trauma-informed Practice | 2023 |
| Compassionate Inquiry | Dr. Gabor Maté discusses a psychotherapeutic method he developed called compassionate inquiry. It utilizes science and compassion to understand unconscious … | Practice Supports, Trauma-informed Practice | 2023 |
| Think of Us | This organization is dedicated to transforming the child welfare system to center lived experiences. They operate as a research and … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Continuous Quality Improvement, Cultural Responsiveness, Data-Driven Decision Making, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Policy Impact, Prevention/Early Intervention, System Reform, Trauma-informed Practice | 2023 |
| National Youth Employment Coalition | The National Youth Employment Coalition represents organizations that serve and study opportunity youth. The coalition keeps the field up to … | Community Engagement, Policy Impact, Trauma-informed Practice | 2023 |
| 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 … | Education/Professional Development, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Training | 2023 |
| Why Coaching is Worth Your Investment | This infographic describes why it is important for child welfare programs to invest in coaching to support employees and their … | Coaching, Leadership, Supervision, Workforce Development Planning | 2023 |
| 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. | Advancing Racial Equity, Burnout, Disproportionality & Disparities, Education/Professional Development, Practice Supports, Recruitment, Recruitment and Selection, Retention, Supervision, Training, Turnover, University Partnerships, Work Conditions and Benefits, Workload | 2023 |
| How does turnover in the child welfare workforce impact children and families? | Learn about child welfare workforce turnover, its challenges to child protection agencies, and the impact it has on children and … | Advancing Racial Equity, Disproportionality & Disparities, Retention, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits, Workload | 2023 |
| Work with Purpose Child Welfare Professional Recruitment Toolkit | The Work with Purpose recruitment campaign – and the information and materials in this toolkit – is intended to support … | Communication, Recruitment, Recruitment and Selection | 2023 |
| Knowledge and Attitudes of Implementation Support Practitioners: NCWWI 1-page Summary | Implementation Support Practitioners (ISPs) like facilitators, technical assistance providers, knowledge brokers, coaches, and consultants provide expert help to plan and … | Change Implementation | 2023 |
| Mental Health and the Child Welfare Workforce | This infographic describes the workforce mental health crisis, the impacts of not supporting employees’ well-being, and how child welfare organizations … | Burnout, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, Trauma-informed Practice, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2023 |
| Child Welfare Systems Change: NCWWI Advisory Board Recommendations | The NCWWI Advisory Board was charged to “reimagine” the child welfare system by focusing on promoting child and family well-being. … | Change Implementation, System Reform, Vision, Mission, and Values | 2022 |
| Learning & Living Leadership Tool Kit | This tool kit is your opportunity to develop and practice your leadership skills so that you can positively impact children, … | Adaptive Leadership, Coaching, Leadership, Training | 2022 |
| Self Care By Example: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you model self-care to others. It is a part of the NCWWI Leadership Tool Kit. | Communication, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities, Organizational Culture and Climate | 2022 |
| Reflecting on Racial Equity and Inclusion | These short (one minute or less) videos provide reflection questions and link to a racial equity and inclusion resource. We … | Advancing Racial Equity, Cultural Responsiveness, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, System Reform | 2022 |
| Dial in a New Communication Channel: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to employ new communication channels to increase transparency and information sharing. It is a part … | Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Host Racial Equity Deep Discussion: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to facilitate deep discussions about racial equity leading to action. It is a part of … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| My Vision Statement: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to understand your personal leadership vision so you can manifest it more intentionally through leadership … | Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Values Assessment: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to compare personal and organization values to better understand and align values. It is a … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Living By The Code: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to understand how the Social Work Code of Ethics manifests in organization behavior. It is … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Logic Modeling: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to think through how an initiative will achieve its ultimate goal through an incremental process. … | Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Purposeful Mission and Vision Integration: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to reinforce that all organization initiatives are connected to the organization’s vision and mission. It … | Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Through an Adaptive Lens: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to analyze an issue through an adaptive lens to more thoroughly understand an issue situation … | Adaptive Leadership, Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Got Change?: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to understand an individual’s or team’s readiness for change, bring awareness to the process, promote … | Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Listening to the Family Voice: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to develop new insights about organization programs to promote innovative practice. It is a part … | Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Implementation Science Applied: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to apply implementation science to a current initiative, program, policy, or practice to plan and … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Upside Down, Inside Out: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to develop new insights by analyzing and reviewing existing tasks, activities, and systems. It is … | Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Child Welfare in the News: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to consider current issues and trends relevant to child welfare in the United States and … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Technology Transfer: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to explore the latest innovations in technology and their application to the organization. It is … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Best Practice Approach Lunch & Learn: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to explore new ideas and innovations to address organization issues. It is a part of … | Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| My Flexibility Quotient: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to assess your ability to change and be open to new information and changing conditions. … | Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Team Building/Team Unifying: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to apply competencies in fostering team cohesion and motivation. It is a part of the … | Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Team Scorecard: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to apply competencies to facilitate improved cooperation and goal orientation. It is a part of … | Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| The Sunny Side: Strengths Assessment: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to assess strengths within your organization so you understand areas that are lacking and/or build … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Welcome Aboard!: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to model interpersonal relations by developing a program exhibiting an inclusive, hospitable, and friendly environment. … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Group Learning Club: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to create a culture of continuous learning. It is a part of the NCWWI Leadership … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Building Resiliency: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to increase awareness of how to build resiliency and provide resources and information to staff. … | Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Way to Go!: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to validate employees’ efforts through a formal reward and recognition program. It is a part … | Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Why People Stay Interviews: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to understand why people stay with the organization, especially how they overcame obstacles to remain. … | Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Taking it Higher: Elevating Morale: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to applaud resilience within the unit, division, or organization through a strategic approach to improving … | Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Is Yours a Learning Organization?: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to build an organizational culture that promotes and supports learning. It is a part of … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Privilege Walk: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to understand privilege and explore the ways it is experienced based on being a member … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Diversity Assessment: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to become aware of strategies to diversify your program, unit, division, or organization. It is … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Jump-Start Diversity Initiative: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to foster a more diverse workplace. It is a part of the NCWWI Leadership Tool … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Dig Deeper in Data: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to understand the significance of organization data for improving outcomes. It is a part of … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Data Comparison: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to understand data more holistically by comparing differences among unit, office, or county and then … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Data Storytelling: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to capture the story behind the data and facilitate the connection between the staff’s work … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Tech-Out Planning & Organizing: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to use technology to plan and organize a project or initiative to increase communication and … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Dissecting a Decision: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to improve decision-making by studying a previously made decision, the decision-making process, and the impact … | Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Solutions in Rounds: Learning Circles: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to engage in a dialogue to identify and analyze relevant unit or organization issues and … | Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Agency Shadow Tour: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to increase sensitivity to and respect for others by becoming better acquainted with people at … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Applying a Political Perspective: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to understand how political perspectives affect the organization’s functioning and reality. It is a part … | Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Seeking to Understand: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to gain a more thorough understanding of alternative viewpoints and the rationale behind them. It … | Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Structured Sharing: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to build consensus in a group by influencing and negotiating through use of structured sharing … | Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Regulate the Conflict Temperature: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to encourage creative tension with a group (e.g., team, organization) by implementing strategies to bring … | Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| What’s My Conflict Style: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to become aware of your conflict management style and how it potentially influences conflictual situations. … | Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Costing Out Turnover: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to assess the justification for a retention program by evaluating the costs of turnover. It … | Change Implementation, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Town Hall Meeting: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to improve understanding of the political situation as it relates to the program by bringing … | Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| We Are Child Welfare Campaign: Leadership Tool Kit Activity | This activity will help you to improve public perceptions of the organization and build deeper consensus with the public by … | Change Implementation, Communication, Community Engagement, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Advancing Equity and Inclusion Through the Child and Family Services Reviews | This document provides guidelines and suggestions for how to integrate a focus on equity and inclusion into the stages and … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Continuous Quality Improvement, Data-Driven Decision Making, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity | 2022 |
| Indian Child Welfare Timeline | This infographic provides a timeline for Indian Child Welfare from 1820 to present | Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Education/Professional Development, Tribal Child Welfare | 2022 |
| The Indian Self-Determination Act and Social Work Practice | This infographic describes how the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (ISDEAA) applies to child welfare social work practice with … | Change Implementation, Cultural Responsiveness, Education/Professional Development, Tribal Child Welfare, University Partnerships | 2022 |
| Learning, Leading, Changing: Collaborating to Enhance ICWA Knowledge and Practice | Held on March 21, 2022, this learning exchange focused on enhancing knowledge and understanding of ICWA and tribal sovereignty through … | Advancing Racial Equity, Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, Education/Professional Development, Tribal Child Welfare, University Partnerships | 2022 |
| Learning, Leading, Changing: Advancing Workplace Equity | This learning exchange, held on April 19, 2022, focused on how participants can advance workplace equity in child welfare. Panelists … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Communication, Data-Driven Decision Making, Education/Professional Development, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, University Partnerships, Workforce Development Planning | 2022 |
| Leadership Academy Evaluation Guide | This guide provides an overview of evaluation activities and resources that a state, county, tribal, or private child welfare agency … | Change Implementation, Continuous Quality Improvement, Data-Driven Decision Making, Leadership, Workforce Development Planning | 2022 |
| Overrepresentation of Black Children in Child Welfare: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This document summarizes a systematic review that confirmed racial disparities and overrepresentation of Black youth, ages 10-17, involved with the … | Data-Driven Decision Making, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, System Reform | 2022 |
| American Indian/Alaska Natives Curriculum Content Evaluation Guide | In keeping with the Council on Social Work Education’s competency-based education standards and social work competencies this curriculum content guide … | Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, Education/Professional Development, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Tribal Child Welfare, University Partnerships | 2022 |
| Learning, Leading, Changing: Engaging Emerging Leaders as a Retention Strategy | Held on May 26, 2022, this learning exchange focused on how universities and agencies engage social work students and graduates … | Cultural Responsiveness, Education/Professional Development, Leadership, Mentoring, Retention, University Partnerships, Workforce Development Planning | 2022 |
| ICWA Inquiry and Notification | This overview from the Capacity Building Center for Tribes explains the process for inquiry and notification in ICWA cases and … | Community Engagement, Evidence-Based Practice, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Practice Supports, Tribal Child Welfare | 2022 |
| ICWA Online Guide: Qualified Expert Witness | This brief from the Capacity Building Center for Tribes explains the role of Qualified Expert Witnesses (QEW) in ICWA cases. … | Community Engagement, Evidence-Based Practice, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Practice Supports, Tribal Child Welfare | 2022 |
| ICWA Placement Preferences | This brief from the Capacity Building Center for Tribes explains the law and regulations for following preferred placement preferences with … | Community Engagement, Evidence-Based Practice, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Practice Supports, Tribal Child Welfare | 2022 |
| ICWA Active Efforts | This brief by the Capacity Building Center for Tribes provides an explanation of Active Efforts as they relate to the … | Community Engagement, Evidence-Based Practice, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Practice Supports, Tribal Child Welfare | 2022 |
| How Peer Support Can Reduce Burnout and Improve Worker Well-being | This infographic describes how peer support can reduce burnout and improve worker well-being, including how organizations can champion peer support … | Burnout, Coaching, Education/Professional Development, Leadership, Mentoring, Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, Supervision, Training, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2022 |
| How Hope and Resilience Can Lower Burnout Among Child Welfare Workers: NCWWI 1-page Summary | Burnout is a significant concern among child welfare professionals, leading to high turnover and reducing service quality. This document summarizes … | Burnout, Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, Trauma-informed Practice, Turnover, Vision, Mission, and Values | 2022 |
| Holding Retention Reviews: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This product summarizes how leaders can use retention reviews to collect ideas on how to improve employees’ work experiences and … | Burnout, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, Supervision, Turnover | 2022 |
| Centering Child Welfare Worker Well-being | This infographic describes how child welfare organizations can center child welfare worker well-being to better support children and families. | Advancing Racial Equity, Burnout, Education/Professional Development, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, Supervision, Training, Trauma-informed Practice, Work Conditions and Benefits, Workforce Development Planning | 2022 |
| Students’ Experiences of an Anishinaabe-Centered Social Work Education Program: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This article, which is the second in a series of three, examines the social work education program at the Center … | Advancing Racial Equity, Cultural Responsiveness, Education/Professional Development, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Training, Tribal Child Welfare, University Partnerships | 2022 |
| Using a Culturally Responsive Leadership Framework: NCWWI 1-page Summary | The authors developed a culturally responsive leadership framework (CRLF) to address context, distributive leadership, and cultural responsiveness. Examining these elements … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, Education/Professional Development, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Supervision, Training, Vision, Mission, and Values, Workforce Development Planning | 2022 |
| Rethinking Child Welfare Recruitment | This brief discusses the current workforce crisis and provides recommendations on ways child welfare programs can enhance their recruitment efforts. | Communication, Education/Professional Development, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Job Analysis and Position Requirements, Organizational Culture and Climate, Recruitment, Recruitment and Selection, Retention, Screening and Selection, University Partnerships, Work Conditions and Benefits, Workforce Development Planning, Workload | 2022 |
| AFCARS Reports | The Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) collects case-level information on all children in foster care and … | Change Implementation, Data-Driven Decision Making, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity | 2022 |
| National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative | NTI has developed two state-of-the-art, standardized, web-based trainings to build the capacity of child welfare and mental health professionals in … | Education/Professional Development, Practice Supports, Trauma-informed Practice | 2022 |
| The Prevention Services Clearinghouse | A database of placement prevention services that are classified as well-supported, supported, promising, or does not currently meet criteria. Family … | Evidence-Based Practice, Practice Supports, Prevention/Early Intervention | 2022 |
| Work Family Conflict | An overview of work-family conflict, work interference with family, and family interference with work. | Burnout, Retention, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2022 |
| Work Family Enrichment | An overview of work-family enrichment, work to family enrichment and family to work enrichment. | Burnout, Retention, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2022 |
| Role Stress | An overview of three types of role stress: role ambiguity, role conflict, and role overload. | Job Analysis and Position Requirements, Recruitment and Selection, Retention, Supervision, Work Conditions and Benefits, Workload | 2022 |
| Transformational Leadership | An overview of the four facets of transformational leadership: idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration. | Leadership, Supervision | 2022 |
| Leader Member Exchange | An overview of the quality of the dyadic relationship formed between a leader and follower, otherwise known as leader member … | Leadership, Performance Improvement, Retention, Supervision, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2022 |
| Learning Styles | An overview of learning styles and their importance. | Education/Professional Development, Training | 2022 |
| Political Skill | An overview of the ability to effectively understand others at work, and to use such knowledge to influence others to … | Burnout, Leadership, Mentoring, Retention, Supervision, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2022 |
| Trainee Reactions | An overview of trainee reactions to training and its’ uses. | Education/Professional Development, Training | 2022 |
| Compensation | An overview of pay and pay satisfaction and its value as well as compensation-related intervention strategies. | Retention, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2022 |
| Diversity and Inclusion Climates | An overview of diversity and inclusion climates and how they can be improved. | Advancing Racial Equity, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2022 |
| Workplace Incivility | An overview of workplace incivility and ways to improve it. | Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2022 |
| Addressing the Disconnects Between HR and Child Welfare | When it comes to efforts to improve workforce outcomes, how would you describe the relationship between human resources (HR) and … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2022 |
| Supervision in a Virtual Workplace | The QIC-WD sites, like other child welfare agencies around the country, pivoted to virtual supervision quickly due to the pandemic. … | Supervision, Workload | 2022 |
| Worker Turnover is a Persistent Child Welfare Challenge – So is Measuring It | The QIC-WD team has spent five years working with public child welfare agencies to implement and study efforts to address … | Data-Driven Decision Making, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2022 |
| Promoting Antiracist Child Welfare Practice: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This 1-pager summarizes a study where authors interviewed 16 regional- and state-level public child welfare agency administrators representing 13 states … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Cultural Responsiveness, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, System Reform, Workforce Development Planning | 2022 |
| Most Popular Self-Care Resources of 2022 | A list of self-care resources to support individuals in creating a self-care plan. | Burnout, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2022 |
| Kansas Racial Equity Collaborative | The Racial Equity Collaborative is a Kansas statewide effort to understand the history of racial inequities in child welfare and … | Advancing Racial Equity, Community Engagement, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, System Reform | 2022 |
| Family First Toolkit Part 1: Planning & Readiness | The tools in this kit align with the first phase of Family First Implementation: planning and readiness. These tools from … | Change Implementation, Education/Professional Development, Evidence-Based Practice, Family-Centered Practice, Policy Impact, Practice Supports, Prevention/Early Intervention, System Reform, Training | 2022 |
| Family First Toolkit Part 2: Implementation & Change Management | The tools in this kit align with the second phase of Family First Implementation: implementation and change management. These Chapin … | Change Implementation, Education/Professional Development, Evidence-Based Practice, Family-Centered Practice, Policy Impact, Practice Supports, Prevention/Early Intervention, System Reform, Training | 2022 |
| Family First Toolkit Part 3: Evaluating & Improving Quality | The tools in this kit align with the second phase of Family First Implementation: evaluating and improving quality. These tools … | Change Implementation, Continuous Quality Improvement, Data-Driven Decision Making, Evidence-Based Practice, Family-Centered Practice, Policy Impact, Practice Supports, Prevention/Early Intervention, System Reform | 2022 |
| Kids Count Data Center | A project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation and a premier source of data on children and families. Each year, … | Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Data-Driven Decision Making, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity | 2022 |
| Integrating Positive Youth Development and Racial Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Approaches Across the Child Welfare and Justice Systems | This paper explores why systems need a new emphasis on Positive Youth Development (PYD) approaches that incorporate racial equity and … | Advancing Racial Equity, Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Practice Models, Practice Supports | 2022 |
| Safe & Connected™ Practice Model | A model of practice that includes a research-informed framework, engaged assessments based on strengths, needs and risks, analytical decision making … | Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Family-Centered Practice, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Practice Models, Practice Supports, System Reform, Trauma-informed Practice | 2022 |
| The Indian Child Welfare Act – What We Need to Know on “Active Efforts” | A video sharing the history of ICWA as well as the present state of ICWA. Practice considerations and practice examples … | Advancing Racial Equity, Cultural Responsiveness, Disproportionality & Disparities, Family-Centered Practice, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Practice Supports, Tribal Child Welfare, Tribal Sovereignty | 2022 |
| Dear Leaders Tool | This resource includes starting points for child welfare leaders who seek to bring family voice and power into the system. | Adaptive Leadership, Advancing Racial Equity, Community Engagement, Family-Centered Practice, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Practice Supports, System Reform | 2022 |
| 9 Proven Strategies to Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Your Workplace | This article lists 9 ways to improve DEIB within your workplace. | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Continuous Quality Improvement, Cultural Responsiveness, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Recruitment, Recruitment and Selection, System Reform, Workforce Development Planning | 2022 |
| Leadership Academy Coaching Materials | NCWWI has found that coaching leads to higher competency gains and supports the application of leadership skills in the workplace. … | Coaching, Education/Professional Development, Leadership | 2022 |
| Learning and Living Leadership Tool Kit Webinar | Leadership can happen from “every seat,” and you’ll need to be at your very best to lead into the future. … | Adaptive Leadership, Leadership, Leadership Toolkit Activities | 2022 |
| Supporting a Culture of Wellness for Emerging Leaders | NCWWI, the Child Welfare League of America, and CWLA’s Emerging Leaders Committee partnered to provide this webinar focused on wellness … | Adaptive Leadership, Leadership, Retention, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2022 |
| Caseload and Workload Management | Large caseloads and excessive workloads in many jurisdictions can make it difficult for child welfare caseworkers to serve families effectively, … | Leadership, Supervision, Work Conditions and Benefits, Workload | 2022 |
| Strategic Planning in Child Welfare | The resources in this series can help identify opportunities to align federal and internal agency processes, including the Child and … | Community Engagement, Practice Models, Practice Supports | 2022 |
| System Transformation Through Community Leadership Webinar | During the webinar, panelists explore how systems can learn from and center youth, families, and community members whose lives are … | Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Practice Models, Practice Supports, System Reform | 2022 |
| 2022 Signature Report, Investing in Equity: Sustaining hope for children and families | Casey Family Programs recognizes that the safety and well-being of children must be seen in the context of their families, … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Continuous Quality Improvement, Cultural Responsiveness, Data-Driven Decision Making, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Vision, Mission, and Values | 2022 |
| FOCUS on Workforce Wellness | A newsletter with multiple articles focused on worker wellness. One article provides practical actions coworkers can engage in with one … | Retention, Trauma-informed Practice, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2022 |
| A Key Connection: Economic Stability and Family Well-being | Chapin Hall experts have brought together evidence about the connections between economic and concrete supports and involvement with child welfare. … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Cultural Responsiveness, Disproportionality & Disparities, Family-Centered Practice, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Practice Supports, Prevention/Early Intervention, System Reform, Trauma-informed Practice | 2022 |
| The Nebraska Foster Care Review Office Annual Report | This report contains the Foster Care Review Office’s (FCRO) independent data and analysis of the child welfare system with recommendations … | Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Policy Impact | 2022 |
| The role of economic and concrete supports in child maltreatment prevention | Senior Policy Fellow Clare Anderson and Senior Policy Analyst Yasmin Grewal-Kok give a fast-paced and broad overview of evidence about … | Change Implementation, Family-Centered Practice, Practice Supports, Prevention/Early Intervention, System Reform | 2022 |
| Overloaded: Understanding Neglect | Join host Luke Waldo, Director of Program Design and Community Engagement at the Institute for Child and Family Well-being, as … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Cultural Responsiveness, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Policy Impact, Prevention/Early Intervention, System Reform | 2022 |
| 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 … | Adaptive Leadership, Education/Professional Development, Leadership, Training | 2022 |
| Evidence2Success Framework Shapes Services for Black Youth in Miami | Liberty City is one of five communities across the country carrying out the Foundation’s Evidence2Success® framework, a multi-step approach that … | Advancing Racial Equity, Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, Inclusivity/Racial Equity | 2022 |
| Reimagining Black Families’ Cultural Assets Can Inform Policies and Practices That Enhance Their Well-being | This brief is part of a larger effort by Child Trends researchers to expand knowledge about Black children and families. … | Advancing Racial Equity, Cultural Responsiveness, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity | 2022 |
| 11 Suggested Actions Towards Anti-Racism | Actions your organization or unit can take towards addressing structural racism. | Advancing Racial Equity, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Organizational Culture and Climate, Practice Supports | 2022 |
| 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 … | Advancing Racial Equity, Community Engagement, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Policy Impact, System Reform, University Partnerships | 2022 |
| ACEs Matter | ACEs Matter is an organization whose mission is to start conversations about ACEs in every community that wants to break … | Practice Supports, Prevention/Early Intervention, Trauma-informed Practice | 2022 |
| How One State Achieved Breakthrough Improvements in a Highly Stressed Foster Care System | This webinar discusses Restore Hope Arkansas’ work in transforming Arkansas’ foster care system and highlights the process of creating and … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, Disproportionality & Disparities, Family-Centered Practice, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Organizational Culture and Climate, Practice Models, Practice Supports, Prevention/Early Intervention, System Reform, Trauma-informed Practice, Vision, Mission, and Values | 2022 |
| Press On — A Coalition of Coalitions to Move the Trauma-Informed Movement Forward | Press On is a national coalition of local trauma-informed coalitions, formed to create a unified voice for trauma-informed advocacy across … | Community Engagement, Practice Supports, Trauma-informed Practice | 2022 |
| Structural Racism Booklet: Research and Policy Analyses | The National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives has consolidated a 40-page booklet of factsheets documenting evidence of for structural … | Advancing Racial Equity, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity | 2022 |
| Human Centered Innovation for Intergenerational Impact (itotheN) | itotheN is an international development consulting organization that focuses on research, thought leadership, strategic partnerships, and science-informed solutions to emphasize … | Data-Driven Decision Making, Trauma-informed Practice | 2022 |
| Family Engagement: Partnering with Families to Improve Child Welfare Outcomes | This bulletin for professionals provides an overview of the foundational elements of the family engagement approach, followed by strategies and … | Community Engagement, Family-Centered Practice, Practice Supports | 2021 |
| University Partnership Transition to Work Strategies | This document lists strategies to support transition to work and the long-term retention of traineeship graduates. | University Partnerships | 2021 |
| Thank You for Showing Up | During the 2020 Child Welfare Worker Recognition Event, National Child Welfare Advocate, Victor Sims, gave an inspirational talk on how … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2021 |
| Showing Up Makes All The Difference | During the 2020 Child Welfare Worker Recognition Event, National Child Welfare Advocate, Courtney Canova, gave an inspirational talk on how … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2021 |
| Moral Distress: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This summary describes the findings of a study that examined moral distress experiences among 1,879 public child welfare caseworkers and … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2021 |
| One Journey: National Child Welfare Workforce Institute Racial Equity Team | This document describes how and why NCWWI created a Racial Equity Team. It includes considerations for developing and structuring the … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2021 |
| Resource List: Free, Online Training for Child Welfare Staff | This resource list identifies organizations that offer training activities with defined learning objectives that may include a range of modalities, … | Training | 2021 |
| Advancing Inclusivity by Caucusing: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This document summarizes experiences successfully implementing racial identity-based caucusing in an MSW program social justice class at a large public … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2021 |
| Trauma-Informed Organizational Change Manual | The purpose of the manual is to guide organizations and systems in planning for, implementing and sustaining a trauma-informed organizational … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2021 |
| Diverse Populations and Communities | Child welfare professionals across the country work with children, youth, and families from varied backgrounds and communities with their own … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2021 |
| Cultural Responsiveness | Resources to help workers, agencies, and systems better understand and enhance their cultural competence. Includes information on working with children, … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2021 |
| Preparing the Child Welfare Workforce: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This document summarizes a ten-year retrospective study of a child welfare stipend program involving four university social work programs in … | University Partnerships | 2021 |
| Introducing the Tribal Comprehensive Organizational Health Assessment (TCOHA) | This short video introduces the TCOHA to Tribal Workforce Excellence Sites. It also serves as an example for other sites … | Workforce Development Planning | 2021 |
| Introducing the Comprehensive Organizational Health Assessment (COHA) | This one minute video introduces the COHA to Workforce Excellence Sites. It also serves as an example for other sites … | Workforce Development Planning | 2021 |
| Supporting Transition to Work as a Child Welfare Retention Strategy | This infographic describes how to support graduates’ transition to work as a child welfare retention strategy. | Education/Professional Development | 2021 |
| Key Takeaways from Building a Resilient Workforce to Address Trauma and Enhance Well-being: Operational workforce supports | This document lists the key takeaways identified by participants in the NCWWI Discussion Series event, Building a Resilient Workforce to … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2021 |
| Racism as Trauma: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This document examines results from a study exploring the experiences of 13 Indigenous child protection practitioners in Queensland, Australia, working … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2021 |
| Intersectionality in Child Welfare Infographic | This infographic describes intersectionality in child welfare, why racial equity is not enough, and how to improve the system for … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2021 |
| Key Takeaways from Building a Resilient Workforce to Address Trauma and Enhance Well-being: Leveraging Key Partnerships | This document lists the key takeaways identified by participants in the NCWWI Discussion Series event, Building a Resilient Workforce to … | Community Engagement | 2021 |
| Tanam Awaa Our Community’s Work: Trauma-Informed Benchbook for Tribal Justice Systems | This benchbook for tribal justice systems covers topics of historical trauma and how it can be overcome through healing models … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2021 |
| Tanam Awaa Our Community’s Work: Trauma-Informed Benchbook for Tribal Justice Systems | This benchbook for tribal justice systems covers topics of historical trauma and how it can be overcome through healing models … | Tribal Child Welfare | 2021 |
| How do some child protection agencies approach coaching? | The following jurisdictional snapshots spotlight 12 different state, county, and national models and approaches to coaching child protection agency staff. | Coaching, Education/Professional Development | 2021 |
| What has been New York’s experience with casework teaming? | For more than a decade, the New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OFCS) has implemented casework teaming … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2021 |
| How have counties in New York approached implementation of casework teaming? | In this brief, New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) caseworker staff, as well as supervisors who … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2021 |
| How can child welfare leaders and providers reimagine support for children and families? | Child welfare systems across the country are looking for opportunities to move upstream and offer proactive support to children and … | System Reform | 2021 |
| How can child welfare leaders and providers reimagine support for children and families? | Child welfare systems across the country are looking for opportunities to move upstream and offer proactive support to children and … | Leadership | 2021 |
| How did the blind removal process in Nassau County, N.Y., reduce disparity among children entering care? | This brief describes how Nassau County, NY reduced disparity among children entering foster care by implementing a blind removal process. | Advancing Racial Equity | 2021 |
| The Path to Racial Equity in Child Welfare: Valuing family and community | This policy summit report provides a history of racial equity in child welfare nad includes policy recommendations for reform. | Advancing Racial Equity | 2021 |
| Advancing Racial Equity Webinar Series Discussion Guide | The Advancing Racial Equity webinar series takes an in-depth look at racism as a driving force of the social determinants … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2021 |
| Tool for Building Stamina in Anti-Racism Practice: Moving from Protection to Connection | This Tool for Building Stamina (inspired by Robin DiAngelo’s book, White Fragility* and grounded in our understanding of the biology … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2021 |
| Native Land Territory Acknowledgement | Territory acknowledgement is a way that people insert an awareness of Indigenous presence and land rights in everyday life. This … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2021 |
| Native Land Territory Acknowledgement | Territory acknowledgement is a way that people insert an awareness of Indigenous presence and land rights in everyday life. This … | Tribal Child Welfare | 2021 |
| Key Takeaways from Building a Resilient Workforce to Address Trauma and Enhance Well-being: Understanding Moral Distress | This document lists the key takeaways identified by participants in the NCWWI Discussion Series event, Building a Resilient Workforce to … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2021 |
| Social Work Degrees Are Leading the Child Welfare Workforce: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This 1-pager provides a summary of the research on how individuals with social work degrees perform in child welfare. | Education/Professional Development | 2021 |
| Child Welfare Practice to Address Racial Disproportionality and Disparity | This bulletin provides a brief overview of the problem of racial and ethnic disproportionality and disparity in the child welfare … | Advancing Racial Equity, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Organizational Culture and Climate | 2021 |
| Racial Equity Resources for Child Welfare Professionals | This website lists resources to support child welfare and related professionals in recognizing individual biases and dismantling systemic racism. | Advancing Racial Equity | 2021 |
| Racial Equity Resources for Child Welfare Systems | This webpage lists resources about implementing anti-racism practices and working with diverse populations at a systems level. | Advancing Racial Equity | 2021 |
| Disproportionality | This section of the Child Welfare Information Gateway includes issues such as overrepresentation in the child welfare system, underrepresentation in … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2021 |
| The Indian Child Welfare Act: A Primer for Child Welfare Professionals | The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) of 1978 is one of the key components to protecting the rights and culture … | Tribal Child Welfare | 2021 |
| Decolonizing Tribal Child Welfare: NICWA’s Culturally Based Review Process to Support Tribal Child Welfare Redesign | This PowerPoint presentation defines and describes why decolonizing child welfare is important, highlights Touchstones of Hope, and explains NICWA’s approach … | Tribal Child Welfare | 2021 |
| Key Takeaways from Building a Resilient Workforce to Address Trauma and Enhance Well-being: Supporting Self-Care at the System Level | This document lists the key takeaways identified by participants in the NCWWI Discussion Series event, Building a Resilient Workforce to … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2021 |
| A Holistic Framework for Child Welfare Worker Well Being: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This document describes a holistic child welfare worker well-being framework, identifies the three key dimensions that make up worker well-being … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2021 |
| Key Takeaways from Building a Resilient Workforce to Address Trauma and Enhance Well-being: Connecting to Cultural Ways | This document lists the key takeaways identified by participants in the NCWWI Discussion Series event, Building a Resilient Workforce to … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2021 |
| A Checklist for Emerging Leaders | This infographic provides tips and resources to promote the development of emerging leaders’ critical leadership skills, and ways child welfare … | Education/Professional Development, Leadership | 2021 |
| Empowering the Child Welfare Workforce and its Emerging Leaders | On September 28, 2021. a panel hosted by NCWWI and CWLA presented helpful steps that emerging leaders can take to … | Leadership | 2021 |
| Active Efforts: Public Child Welfare ICWA Best Practices: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This 1-pager defines and explains active efforts according to the 2016 Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) final rule. Information includes … | Practice Supports, Tribal Child Welfare | 2021 |
| Pandemic Posed Challenges, but also Created Opportunities for Agencies to Enhance Future Operations | This report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) examines how child welfare agencies responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and … | Change Implementation, Practice Supports, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2021 |
| How Case Severity and Workplace Resources Impact Worker Retention: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This document summarizes a study that used survey and administrative data from 485 Oregon Department of Human Services caseworkers to … | Retention, Workforce Development Planning | 2021 |
| Everyday Workplace Discrimination: NCWWI 1-page Summary | Utilizing the Psychological Stressor-Strain theory, this study assessed the associations between everyday workplace discrimination, racial/ethnic identities, and psychological well-being among … | Advancing Racial Equity, Communication, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Organizational Culture and Climate | 2021 |
| Intentional Inclusion: Creating Equity in the Workplace | Child welfare systems should foster a healthy organizational culture and climate and improve the well-being of the child welfare workforce. … | Advancing Racial Equity, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, System Reform, Workforce Development Planning | 2021 |
| Top 10 Self-Care Resources of 2021 | Click the links to access the top 10 self-care resources shared on NCWWI social media during 2021 | Burnout, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2021 |
| Reimagining Child Welfare: Oregon’s Vision for Transformation | This podcast episode features one jurisdiction moving from discussion to action. Oregon’s Child Welfare Division has released its Vision for … | Change Implementation | 2021 |
| What Did Child Welfare Learn from 2020: upEnding Systemic Racism | This podcast episode is part of a series that examines what the child welfare field learned during 2020. It features … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Inclusivity/Racial Equity | 2021 |
| Parenting in Racially and Culturally Diverse Adoptive Families | This fact sheet provides information to help families support their child in developing a healthy racial and cultural identity and … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2021 |
| Measuring Narrative Change: Understanding Progress and Navigating Complexity | This brief explores the concepts that underlie narrative change work and what these mean for measurement; think more about measuring … | Communication, Community Engagement, Leadership | 2021 |
| America Needs All of Us: A Toolkit for talking about bias, race, and change | This toolkit was created to be a communications resource for those working in the field of immigration and immigrant integration. … | Communication, Community Engagement, Leadership | 2021 |
| Safe and Sound: Creating and Nurturing a Culture of Safety | This flyer provides an overview of the Connecticut Safe and Sound Culture, including definitions of the Five Rs of Safe … | Communication, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, System Reform, Trauma-informed Practice, Vision, Mission, and Values, Workforce Development Planning | 2021 |
| Resiliency Resource Guide | This guide is intended for child welfare professionals implementing a workforce effort to address secondary traumatic stress (STS). This guide … | Burnout, Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, Supervision, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2021 |
| Title IV-E Prevention Program | An overview of the Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA), Title IV-E Prevention Program, and resources to help guide implementation. | Community Engagement, Practice Supports | 2021 |
| Behavior Modeling Training | An overview of Behavior Modeling Training (BMT which can be used to train a variety of skills, from interpersonal skills … | Coaching, Education/Professional Development, Supervision, Training | 2021 |
| Signaling in Training | An overview of cues that direct learners’ attention to specific instructional content or that emphasize how the content is organized, … | Education/Professional Development, Training | 2021 |
| Self-Explanation in Training | An overview of a process by which learners generate inferences about causal connections or conceptual relationships, otherwise known as self-explanation. | Education/Professional Development, Training | 2021 |
| Time Management | An overview of time management and how to improve it. | Leadership, Mentoring, Performance Improvement, Supervision | 2021 |
| Leadership Training | An overview of leadership training and its’ value. | Education/Professional Development, Leadership, Training | 2021 |
| Conversational Style in Training | An overview of a combination of stylistic strategies to personalize instructional text for learners, otherwise known as conversational styles and … | Education/Professional Development, Training | 2021 |
| Workplace Ostracism | An overview of workplace ostracism and what contributes to it. | Burnout, Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, Supervision, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2021 |
| Workload | An overview of workload and how to improve it. | Burnout, Retention, Work Conditions and Benefits, Workload | 2021 |
| Organizational Constraints | An overview of work conditions that interfere with an employee’s motivation or ability to perform, otherwise known as work constraints, … | Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, Work Conditions and Benefits, Workload | 2021 |
| Cultural Intelligence | An overview of cultural intelligence, the importance of it, and what contributes to it. | Cultural Responsiveness, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Retention, Supervision, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2021 |
| Abusive Supervision | An overview of abusive supervision, what contributes to it, and ways to address it. | Retention, Supervision, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2021 |
| Generations in the Workplace | An overview of generational differences in the workplace and strategies organizations can take to address it. | Cultural Responsiveness, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Supervision, Workforce Development Planning | 2021 |
| Video Feedback | An overview of video feedback as a training method. | Education/Professional Development, Training | 2021 |
| After-Action Reviews | An overview of After-Action Reviews (AAR), a systematic technique that turns a recent event into a learning opportunity through a … | Education/Professional Development, Performance Improvement, Performance Management, Supervision, Training | 2021 |
| Seductive Details in Training | An overview of including seductive details, interesting but unimportant details that are not necessary to achieve the instructional objective, in … | Education/Professional Development, Training | 2021 |
| Pedagogical Agents | An overview of using lifelike characters presented on a computer screen that guide users through multimedia learning environments, otherwise known … | Education/Professional Development, Training | 2021 |
| Training Tests | An overview of training tests, including any form of knowledge assessment intended to gauge learning from training, and their value. | Education/Professional Development, Training | 2021 |
| Organizational Cynicism | An overview of organizational cynicism and what contributes to it. | Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, Vision, Mission, and Values, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2021 |
| Umbrella Summary: Coaching | An Umbrella summary of coaching and its value by the Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development. | Coaching, Education/Professional Development, Performance Improvement, Supervision | 2021 |
| Gratitude | An overview of gratitude, how it can be increased, and gratitude interventions. | Burnout, Retention, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2021 |
| Pre-Training Interventions | An overview of pre-training interventions and their value. | Education/Professional Development, Training | 2021 |
| Sleep | An overview of sleep and its impact on workplace outcomes. | Burnout, Retention, Work Conditions and Benefits, Workload | 2021 |
| Public Service Motivation | An overview of public service motivation and what contributes to it. | Recruitment and Selection, Retention, Vision, Mission, and Values, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2021 |
| Union Commitment and Participation | An overview of union commitment and participation as well as what contributes to it and its impact on job satisfaction … | Retention, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2021 |
| Emotional Intelligence Training | An overview of emotional intelligence training and its connection to workplace outcomes. | Education/Professional Development, Leadership, Performance Improvement, Supervision, Training | 2021 |
| Emotional Labor | An overview of emotional labor, the management of feelings to create a publicly observable facial and bodily display, and what … | Burnout, Retention, Supervision, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2021 |
| Workaholism | An overview of workaholism and what contributes to it. | Work Conditions and Benefits, Workload | 2021 |
| Improving the Child Welfare Workforce Through Training: Common Questions and Evidence-Informed Answers from the QIC-WD | Training is often the first intervention child welfare agencies use to address critical workforce development issues. This QIC-Tip aims to … | Coaching, Education/Professional Development, Performance Improvement, Supervision, Training | 2021 |
| Communication is Key to Success | Organizational communication describes a connection between poor communication, negative attitudes towards the workplace, and decreased worker satisfaction. Conversely, in an … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2021 |
| How Can Child Welfare Agencies Leverage Data to Address Important Workforce Questions? | Child welfare agencies experience workforce turnover (14-20% annually) that can be costly and result in poorer outcomes for children and … | Data-Driven Decision Making, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2021 |
| How Can Public Child Welfare Agencies Get and Keep a Great Workforce? | The following tips were compiled based on the experience of QIC-WD sites. They are intended to help child welfare administrators, … | Data-Driven Decision Making, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2021 |
| Untapped Potential for Child Welfare Administrative Data | Although a lot of data are captured through child welfare management information systems, there is much we still need to … | Data-Driven Decision Making, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2021 |
| Undoing Racism Through Social Work: NASW Report to the Profession on Racial Justice Priorities and Action | As part of NASW’s collaborative five year social change initiative to strengthen their efforts to end racism in the social … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Policy Impact, System Reform | 2021 |
| Evaluating Family Engagement in Child Welfare | This brief provides an overview of key issues when evaluating a family engagement program or practice, including how family engagement … | Community Engagement, Family-Centered Practice, Practice Supports | 2021 |
| Methods and Emerging Strategies to Engage People with Lived Experience: Improving Federal Research, Policy, and Practice | This brief identifies lessons learned and key considerations from a range of methods for engaging individuals with lived experience to … | Community Engagement, Data-Driven Decision Making, Family-Centered Practice, Policy Impact, Practice Supports, System Reform | 2021 |
| Elevating Culturally Specific Evidence-Based Practices | This brief provides an overview of ten culturally specific programs and two culturally responsive interventions, the evidence for each, and … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, Data-Driven Decision Making, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Practice Supports, Tribal Child Welfare | 2021 |
| Caring for LGBTQ Children & Youth | This resource provides information about the care and support of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning children and youth. The … | Community Engagement, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Practice Supports | 2021 |
| Building Bridges for Every Child: Reception, Care and Services to Support Unaccompanied Children in the United States | This report offers recommendations for strengthening child-sensitive reception, care, and services for unaccompanied children in the United States. Drawing on … | Advancing Racial Equity, Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Practice Supports | 2021 |
| Self-Care: Improve our Relationships, Daily Interactions, and Reactions to Trauma | This infographic describes how mindfulness can improve well-being and provides examples on how to use mindfulness for self-care. | Burnout, Trauma-informed Practice, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2021 |
| Coaching: What’s In It For Me? | This 3-minute microlearning will explain the Leadership Academy’s approach to coaching and its role in your leadership development and the … | Coaching, Education/Professional Development, Leadership | 2021 |
| Coaching: Working with Resistance | This microlearning will explain the Leadership Academy’s approach to coaching and working with resistance within your work environment. | Coaching, Education/Professional Development, Leadership | 2021 |
| Advancing Racial Equity in Child Welfare: Child Welfare Virtual Expo (CWVE) 2021 | Explore strategies to advance racial equity in child welfare presented by families and youth with lived expertise and other national … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, Data-Driven Decision Making, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Organizational Culture and Climate, System Reform, Workforce Development Planning | 2021 |
| Closing Remarks From Aysha E. Schomburg, Associate Commissioner, Children’s Bureau | Learn about the Children’s Bureau’s commitment to racial and other equity in its work and the actions the Children’s Bureau … | Advancing Racial Equity, Inclusivity/Racial Equity | 2021 |
| Working With Black Families | This page highlights issues relevant to working with Black families. This includes understanding the impact of racism, historical trauma, and … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Cultural Responsiveness, Disproportionality & Disparities, Family-Centered Practice, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Practice Supports, System Reform | 2021 |
| NJ ACEs Collaborative – Social Equity in New Jersey Demands Appropriate use of the ACE Study | In this report, the NJ ACEs Collaborative calls for 5 areas regarding trauma-informed care and ACEs that need further investigation. … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2021 |
| Aligning Organizations for Family Resilience and Healing | This chapter discusses the how organization-level of the social-ecological model must change to better align with preventative approaches to build … | Change Implementation, Practice Models, Practice Supports, System Reform, Trauma-informed Practice | 2021 |
| US Department of Health and Human Services: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation Publication of “Building Co-Regulaiton Capacity to Support Positive Development for Youth with Foster Care Experience | This report builds from a body of work that describes how self-regulation can be applied as a framework for promoting … | Practice Models, Practice Supports, Trauma-informed Practice | 2021 |
| The Data Equity Framework | The Data Equity Framework is a systematic process that provides you with a set of tools, checklists, and practices that … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Data-Driven Decision Making, Education/Professional Development, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Training | 2021 |
| Unacknowledged Protectors: Consequences and Costs of Turnover in the Child Welfare Workforce | This article discusses some of the reasons for turnover in the child welfare workforce. It also discusses the costs to … | Retention, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits, Workload | 2021 |
| New Tool to Assess Survey Data for Racial Bias | This tool provides a clear, systematic method for researchers to determine whether survey data they plan to analyze were collected … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Continuous Quality Improvement, Cultural Responsiveness, Data-Driven Decision Making, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity | 2021 |
| Addressing Economic Hardship Key to Preventing Child Welfare System Involvement | This brief summarizes historical policy context and provides an overview of policy, programmatic, analytic, and engagement strategies for leveraging economic … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Communication, Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Organizational Culture and Climate, Policy Impact, System Reform, Vision, Mission, and Values | 2021 |
| Brookings – State Resilience and Recovery: Strategies to reduce inequality and promote prosperity by creating better places | This report discusses the importance of addressing economic inequities across the United States by focusing in on specific regions, due … | Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Policy Impact, System Reform | 2021 |
| The Legacy of Trauma: Can Experiences Leave A Biological Imprint? | NPR’s ‘Shortwave’ discusses epigenetics and their implications for potential trauma inheritance with Bianca Jones Martin and Brian Dias. | Practice Models, Trauma-informed Practice | 2021 |
| Number Story: Support Families and Community | This webpage from NumberStory provides information about how an individual can provide support to families and communities through traumatic situations, … | Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, Family-Centered Practice, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Practice Supports, Trauma-informed Practice | 2021 |
| Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina: Connection Matters Congregation | Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina is amplifying their Connections Matters Congregation, a faith-based organization for people in the community who … | Community Engagement, Policy Impact, Prevention/Early Intervention | 2021 |
| 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 … | Education/Professional Development, Policy Impact, Practice Models, Practice Supports, Prevention/Early Intervention, Training, Trauma-informed Practice | 2021 |
| PACEs connection – NJ ACEs Collaborative ACEs Screening Position | The NJ ACEs Collaborative states that ACEs screenings should not be a diagnostic or treatment mechanism but rather a tool … | Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Trauma-informed Practice | 2021 |
| Leading Social Transformations: A Case Study Update on Advancing the Common Good | This webinar follows-up on a case study published May 2021 focusing on methods for large-scale transformation in Canada’s family justice … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Cultural Responsiveness, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Organizational Culture and Climate, Practice Models, Practice Supports, System Reform, Vision, Mission, and Values | 2021 |
| Poor Individual Risk Classification from Adverse Childhood Experiences Screening | In this article, Meehan et al. discuss the utility of ACEs screening for population level impacts of ACEs in the … | Data-Driven Decision Making, Trauma-informed Practice | 2021 |
| Community Engagement Spectrum | This table details how power can be shifted to the people who are actually impacted by poverty when it comes … | Community Engagement, Inclusivity/Racial Equity | 2021 |
| COVID-19 Impact on Current and Former Foster Youth | This tableau provides state-by-state data of housing, employment, financial, and food-related issues during COVID-19 for former foster youth. | Change Implementation, Data-Driven Decision Making | 2021 |
| Partnership for Sustainable Change | Research indicates that change is not sustainable when we do not meaningfully engage those most impacted by a change (even … | Change Implementation, Communication, Community Engagement, Data-Driven Decision Making, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, System Reform | 2021 |
| 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 … | Communication, Cultural Responsiveness | 2020 |
| Multi-system Education for Better Outcomes: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This document summarizes an evaluation of a graduate program for child welfare, mental health, and education professionals that used a … | University Partnerships | 2020 |
| Technology Supports Practice Improvements: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This document describes how technology supported the uptake of practice improvements related to trauma-informed care in child welfare in three … | Practice Supports | 2020 |
| The Views of Many: 360 feedback for child welfare leadership development: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This document summarizes a study that evaluated a 360 feedback and assessment process for child welfare leaders who particpated in … | Leadership | 2020 |
| Facilitating Video Conferences and Webinars | This tools provides a checklist and guidance for facilitating video conferences and webinars. | Performance Management | 2020 |
| Supervision During Physical Distancing: Tools and Guidance | This document proivdes guidance for supervising duing physical distancing, including how to prepare for supervision, what to do during the … | Supervision | 2020 |
| Virtually Supervising Child Welfare Professionals During a Pandemic | During the pandemic crisis, supervisors must consistently engage their staff and assess caseworker needs and the needs of families served … | Supervision | 2020 |
| Tip Sheet: Productively Working from Home | This tip sheet provide examples of strategies for productively working from home. | Practice Supports | 2020 |
| Telework in Child Welfare | This research summary explores the common elements of telework programs that agencies should be aware of, the best practices for … | Supervision | 2020 |
| Virtual Meetings in Child Welfare | This research summary explores the current technology that is available and robust enough to host engaging and dynamic virtual meetings … | Supervision | 2020 |
| Telework Application Self Assessments | This self-assessment from Washington State can be used by workers and supervisors to assess an individual’s readiness for telework. | Supervision | 2020 |
| Child Welfare Field Operations Telework Program Handbook | This handbook provides policies and procedures used by Washington State to operationalize their telework program. | Supervision | 2020 |
| Headington Self Care Inventory | This scale examines some of the more effective physical, psychological and spiritual methods of staying balanced and preventing burnout. If … | Burnout | 2020 |
| Child Welfare Safety Assessment and Planning During COVID 19 and Physical Distancing | This document describes ideas from the NCCD Children’s Research Center (CRC) for how to conduct safety assessment and planning while … | Practice Supports | 2020 |
| Trauma Informed Practice with American Indian/Alaska Native Populations: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This paper describes how to develop a trauma-informed lens for working with American Indian/Alaska Native individuals, families, and communities using … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2020 |
| Reducing Disparities through Indigenous Social Work Education: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This paper highlights effective and inclusive education designed to address the dramatic overrepresentation of Indigenous families in North American public … | Tribal Child Welfare, University Partnerships | 2020 |
| Tips for Coaching Remotely | This document provides several tips for how to coach someone remotely. | Coaching, Leadership | 2020 |
| Facing the Pandemic With Emotional Agility | This document summarizes a podcast episode where Susan David, PhD disusses how to use emotion to adapt using a tactic … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2020 |
| Top Ten Reasons You (and Your Organization) Need Coaching More Than Ever Right Now | This document, developed during the COVID-19 pandemic, explains why choaching is an important strategy used by organizations to support their … | Coaching | 2020 |
| Understanding Trauma-Informed Practice: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This document describes how one child welfare program used an extensive case review process to assess how trauma manifests in … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2020 |
| Effective Workload Management: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This document summarizes a study that surveyed 1,263 workers in a Midwestern state to determine factors that influence workload perceptions … | Workload | 2020 |
| Supporting the Virtual Workforce: Supervision Participant Summary | Participants volunteered strategies during the Supporting the Virtual Workforce: Virtual Supervision learning exchange to help make the transition to the … | Supervision | 2020 |
| Direct Practice Contact: Predicting frontline workers’ time with clients: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This document summarizes a study that examined worker, client, agency, and societal factors that predict the time frontline child welfare … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2020 |
| CapLEARN | Hosted by the Capacity Building Center for States, CapLEARN provides access to training, knowledge, and skills to build child welfare … | Training | 2020 |
| Umbrella Summary: Emotional Intelligence Tests | A summary of workforce research evidence on emotional intelligence tests relevant to the child welfare field. | Screening and Selection | 2020 |
| Umbrella Summary: Employee Engagement | A summary of workforce research evidence on employee engagement relevant to the child welfare field. | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2020 |
| Umbrella Summary: Integrity Tests | A summary of workforce research evidence on integrity tests relevant to the child welfare field. | Screening and Selection | 2020 |
| Umbrella Summary: Job Embeddedness | A summary of workforce research evidence on job embeddedness relevant to the child welfare field. | Job Analysis and Position Requirements | 2020 |
| Umbrella Summary: Job Knowledge Tests | A summary of workforce research evidence on job knowledge tests as relevant to the child welfare field. | Screening and Selection | 2020 |
| Umbrella Summary: Realistic Job Previews | A summary of workforce research evidence on realistic job previews relevant to the child welfare field. | Screening and Selection | 2020 |
| Umbrella Summary: Recruitment | A summary of workforce research evidence on recruitment relevant to the child welfare field. | Recruitment | 2020 |
| Umbrella Summary: Training and Experience Evaluations | A summary of workforce research evidence on training and experience evaluations relevant to the child welfare field. | Screening and Selection | 2020 |
| Umbrella Summary: Work Sample Tests | A summary of workforce research evidence on work sample tests relevant to the child welfare field. | Screening and Selection | 2020 |
| Racial Equity Discussion Guide | This discussion guide provides key messages, reflection questions, and resources for engaging partners in courageous conversations and planning to challenge … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2020 |
| 12 Tips for Small Counties around Implementation | This blog post provides a list of recommendations for small counties to consider when implementing a new initiative. | System Reform | 2020 |
| Child Welfare and Pandemics Literature Scan | This literature scan identifies and synthesizes existing literature examining the effects of pandemics and the identification of policy solutions to … | System Reform | 2020 |
| Child Welfare Case Studies and Competencies | The Alabama Higher Education Consortium on Child Welfare hopes these cases will be used to enhance both social work education/training … | Training | 2020 |
| Child Welfare Safety Assessment and Planning During COVID-19 and Physical Distancing | This document describes ideas from the NCCD Children’s Research Center (CRC) for how to conduct safety assessment and planning under … | Practice Supports | 2020 |
| Applying a Racial Equity Lens to a Change Project | This worksheet provides a list of questions to ask before implementing any change project, to ensure your agency is a … | System Reform | 2020 |
| ICWA Flow Charts | This series of flowcharts serves as a guide for making decisions related to ICWA. | Tribal Child Welfare | 2020 |
| Kinship Navigator Programs Practical Tips and Resources | A tip sheet for kinship navigator programs, with background information and additional resources | Family-Centered Practice | 2020 |
| Overview of Policies and Considerations for Case Managers Working with Foster Youth who are Parenting | This toolkit provides an overview of the current policies and guidelines in Florida regarding foster youth or youth who are … | Family-Centered Practice | 2020 |
| Overview of Policies and Considerations for Child Welfare Professionals serving Transitioning Youth and Young Adults who are Pregnant | This toolkit provides an overview of the current policies and guidelines in Florida regarding pregnant foster youth or youth who … | Family-Centered Practice | 2020 |
| Quality Parenting Initiative Just In Time Training | Florida’s Just in Time Training is a web based service program designed to connect foster parents, kinship or other caregivers … | Practice Supports | 2020 |
| Successful Video Visits With Young Children | Video visits with young children pose special challenges due to their developmental needs. This tip sheet offers some ideas for … | Family-Centered Practice | 2020 |
| Tool for Engaging the Legal Community in Implementing Family First | This tool lays the groundwork for state and local child welfare agencies to partner with the legal community to identify … | System Reform | 2020 |
| Tools for Tribes | Tribal child welfare programs shouldn’t have to reinvent every wheel. With a cooperative and collaborative spirit in mind, the Capacity … | Tribal Child Welfare | 2020 |
| Washington State Family First Prevention (IV-E Program) Services Plan | Washington State submitted their Family First Prevention Plan on December 20, 2019. | System Reform | 2020 |
| Addressing Racial Disparity in Foster Care Placement: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This document summarizes a case study that identified aspects of child welfare practices that contributed to a decrease in the … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2020 |
| Virtual Training Icebreakers | This document lists 10 icebreakers that can be used during virutal training. | Training | 2020 |
| Using Smart Phones as Practice Support: NCWWI 1-page Summary | The summary describes how a smartphone app helped reinforce content from a training program for resource caregivers* on the use … | Practice Supports | 2020 |
| Caring for the Workforce: Webinar Chatlog Summary | Participant ideas and resources from the NCWWI Supporting the Virtual Workforce webinars Virtual Supervision; Well-Being; and Physical, Emotional, and Psychological … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2020 |
| Developing the Workforce: Webinar Chatlog Summary | Participant ideas and resources from the NCWWI webinars Supporting the Virtual Workforce: Converting Classroom Training from In-Person to Online and … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2020 |
| Technology Supports for the Workforce: Webinar Chatlog Summaries | Participant ideas and resources from the NCWWI webinar Supporting the Virtual Workforce: Using Social Media and Technology to Engage Children, … | Practice Supports | 2020 |
| Virtual Social Work Trainer Overview with Learning Suggestions | This document provides an overview of the University of Utah’s Virtual Social Work Trainer, including information on how to use … | Training | 2020 |
| NCWWI Communications Guide: How to Advance Organizational Goals through Effective Messaging, Storytelling, and Public Relations | The NCWWI Communications Guide (the Guide) helps child welfare programs’ initiate or improve their existing communications strategies to build public … | Change Implementation, Communication, Community Engagement, Leadership | 2020 |
| What You Can Do Infographic | All of us must work together to build and sustain a climate where child welfare professionals can do their best … | Community Engagement | 2020 |
| Innovations Exchange Participant Summary on Leadership and Supervision | This document contains the feedback and recommendations from participants of the July 21, 2020, NCWWI Innovations Exchange on Leadership and … | Supervision | 2020 |
| Comprehensive Organizational Health Assessment Public Workforce Excellence Sites Cross-Site Summary Report | This is a cross-site summary report of results from NCWWI’s four public (two county and two state) Workforce Excellence (WE) … | Workforce Development Planning | 2020 |
| Innovations Exchange Participant Summary on Racial Equity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement | This document contains the feedback and recommendations from participants of the August 18, 2020, NCWWI Innovations Exchange on Inclusivity, Racial … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2020 |
| What Child Welfare Workers Need in a Pandemic | This infographic summarizes a Workforce Needs Assessment conducted with four public child welfare agencies during COVID-19 and provides three areas … | Practice Supports | 2020 |
| 2020 Child Welfare Recognition Event “I am…” Participant Responses | This document lists participant responses to an activity that asked them to complete the sentences, “I am a leader beacuse…”, … | Workforce Development Planning | 2020 |
| Leadership Competency Framework Guide | The National Child Welfare Workforce Institute’s (NCWWI) Leadership Competency Framework, updated in 2020, provides a model to develop, guide, and … | Leadership | 2020 |
| Implications of Mindfulness-Informed Interventions for Trauma-Focused Practice: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This document summarizes a study of mindfulness training sessions for parents which showed how integrating mindfulness interventions that target stress … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2020 |
| Moderating Abusive Supervision: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This document summarizes a study that explored factors related to teaming to see if they buffered the negative consequences of … | Supervision | 2020 |
| Innovations Exchange Participant Summary on Practice Supports | This document contains the feedback and recommendations from participants of the September 22, 2020, NCWWI Innovations Exchange on Practice Supports. | Practice Supports | 2020 |
| Peer Support and Workforce Retention: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This article explores how different types of peer support are associated with staff retention. The study is based on data … | Turnover | 2020 |
| Innovations Exchange Participant Summary on Culture Climate, Work Conditions and Benefits | This document contains the feedback and recommendations from participants of the October 20, 2020, NCWWI Innovations Exchange on Culture, Climate, … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2020 |
| Child Welfare CAN Address Burnout | This infographic presents data on who experiences burnout, what predicts it, and how child welfare organizations can address it. | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2020 |
| COVID-19 Workforce Needs Assessment (WNA) Cross site Report For Workforce Excellence Public Child Welfare Sites | This report provides the results of the Coronavirus-19 Workforce Needs Assessment (COVID-19 WNA) that was conducted in two state and … | Workforce Development Planning | 2020 |
| Critical Workforce Needs 2020 | This document provides an overview of cricital workforce needs across both public and tribal child welfare programs and organized using … | Workforce Development Planning | 2020 |
| Innovations Exchange Participant Summary on Education and Professional Development | This document contains the feedback and recommendations from participants of the November 17, 2020, NCWWI Innovations Exchange on Education and … | Education/Professional Development | 2020 |
| Effective Training for Trauma Informed Care: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This study explores how the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services, in partnership with Vanderbilt University, improved its trauma-informed approach by … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2020 |
| Preventing Early Departures Among the Child Welfare Workforce: NCWWI 1-page Summary | Early caseworker departures can have far-reaching consequences for agencies, leaving families feeling uncertain and wasting hiring and training resources. This … | Retention | 2020 |
| A Toolkit for Centering Racial Equity Within Data Integration | This body of work seeks to encourage shifts of awareness and practice, by centering racial equity and community voice within … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2020 |
| Tool for Building Stamina in Anti-Racism Practice: Moving from Protection to Connection | This Tool for Building Stamina (inspired by Robin DiAngelo’s book, White Fragility* and grounded in an understanding of the biology … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2020 |
| Equity vs. Equality: What’s the Difference? | This article outlines the nuances between equity and equality, with examples of each along with other similar concepts. It also … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2020 |
| Racial Equity Meeting Checklist (ACS) | The purpose of this checklist is to self-reflect and achieve an equity lens before any staff interaction and meetings (including … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2020 |
| Preparing Families for Racially and Culturally Diverse Adoptions | Some families need additional information and support to help them raise children from a different racial or cultural background. These … | Cultural Responsiveness, Inclusivity/Racial Equity | 2020 |
| Maintaining Cultural Connections | Identity is one of the seven lifelong core issues in adoption. Connecting with cultural roots is crucial for a child’s … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2020 |
| Reference Checks | An overview of reference checks as a hiring tool and their value. | Job Analysis and Position Requirements, Recruitment and Selection, Screening and Selection | 2020 |
| Occupational Commitment | An overview of occupational commitment and what contributes to it. | Burnout, Organizational Culture and Climate, Performance Improvement, Retention, Supervision, Vision, Mission, and Values, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2020 |
| Organizational Justice | An overview of organizational justice, otherwise known as the extent to which an organization treats people fairly. | Burnout, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Organizational Culture and Climate, Performance Improvement, Retention, Supervision, Vision, Mission, and Values, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2020 |
| Thriving | An overview of thriving in the workplace and what contributes to it. | Retention, Supervision, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2020 |
| Assessment Centers | An overview of assessment centers which measure knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics by assessing participants’ responses to job-related simulations … | Job Analysis and Position Requirements, Recruitment, Recruitment and Selection, Screening and Selection | 2020 |
| Coworker Influence | An overview of how a coworker’s influence impacts a given employees’ workplace experience. | Burnout, Retention, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2020 |
| Telework | An overview of telework, its value, and the need for additional research. | Work Conditions and Benefits, Workload | 2020 |
| Employee Engagement | An overview of employee engagement, what contributes to it, and strategies to improve it. | Leadership, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2020 |
| Psychological Contract Breach | An overview of a psychological contract breach, its importance, and how it can be reduced. | Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Performance Improvement, Recruitment, Recruitment and Selection, Retention, Supervision, Vision, Mission, and Values, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2020 |
| Organizational Socialization | An overview of organizational socialization, or onboarding, and what strategies are thought to be most effective. | Organizational Culture and Climate, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2020 |
| Informal Learning Behaviors | An overview of informal learning behaviors (self-directed, intentional activities to acquire knowledge and skill outside of formal learning environments), why … | Education/Professional Development, Mentoring, Performance Management, Supervision, Training | 2020 |
| Workforce Supports for LGBT Employees | An overview of organizational policies and practices that are thought to improve the work experiences of LGBT employees and foster … | Cultural Responsiveness, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, Vision, Mission, and Values, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2020 |
| Grit | An overview of grit as a personality trait and how it can be improved. | Leadership, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2020 |
| Diversity Training | An overview of diversity training, its value, and how it works. | Advancing Racial Equity, Education/Professional Development, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Training | 2020 |
| Mindfulness | An overview of mindfulness, how it can be increased, and its impact on workplace outcomes. | Leadership, Retention, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2020 |
| Employment Interviews | An overview of employment interviews, what they measure, and their value. | Recruitment, Recruitment and Selection, Screening and Selection | 2020 |
| Job Involvement | An overview of job involvement, or individual’s psychological identification with their job, its value, and what contributes to it. | Retention, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2020 |
| Psychological Capital | An overview of psychological capital including its’ four positive psychological resources—efficacy, optimism, hope, and resilience, the value of it and … | Retention, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2020 |
| Psychological Safety | An overview of psychological safety in the workplace, its value, what contributes to it and how it can be increased. | Leadership, Mentoring, Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, Supervision, Work Conditions and Benefits, Worker Safety | 2020 |
| Perceived Organizational Support | An overview of perceived organizational support, or employee perceptions regarding the extent to which their employer values their contributions and … | Burnout, Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, Turnover, Vision, Mission, and Values, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2020 |
| Perceptions of Organizational Politics | An overview of perceptions of organizational politics, their value, and what contributes to them. | Burnout, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2020 |
| Humor | An overview of humor in the workplace. | Burnout, Leadership, Mentoring, Performance Improvement, Retention, Supervision, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2020 |
| Job Knowledge Tests | An overview of job knowledge tests and their value. | Job Analysis and Position Requirements, Recruitment, Recruitment and Selection, Screening and Selection | 2020 |
| Job Embeddedness | An overview of job embeddedness, or the extent to which employees are connected to their jobs through a social web, … | Retention, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2020 |
| Emotional Intelligence Tests | An overview of emotional intelligence tests and their value. | Recruitment and Selection, Screening and Selection, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2020 |
| Integrity Tests | An overview of integrity tests and their value. | Recruitment and Selection, Screening and Selection | 2020 |
| Cognitive Ability Tests | An overview of cognitive ability tests, their value, and their challenges. | Recruitment and Selection, Screening and Selection | 2020 |
| Biodata Measures | An overview of biodata measures, or hiring tools that assess a variety of biographical or background data about job candidates. … | Recruitment and Selection, Screening and Selection, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2020 |
| Work Sample Tests | An overview of work sample tests, what they measure, and their value. | Job Analysis and Position Requirements, Recruitment, Recruitment and Selection, Screening and Selection | 2020 |
| Training and Experience Evaluations | An overview of training and experience evaluations for potential employees, how they are typically measured, and their value. | Recruitment and Selection, Screening and Selection | 2020 |
| Situational Judgement Tests | An overview of situational judgement tests, what they measure, and their value. | Job Analysis and Position Requirements, Recruitment, Recruitment and Selection, Screening and Selection | 2020 |
| Realistic Job Previews | An overview of realistic job previews, their value, and how they work. | Job Analysis and Position Requirements, Recruitment, Recruitment and Selection, Retention, Screening and Selection, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2020 |
| Recruitment | An overview of recruitment, its value, and how recruitment efforts can be improved. | Recruitment, Recruitment and Selection | 2020 |
| Putting Family First: Developing an Evidence-Based Child Welfare Preventive Practice Model | This paper provides guidance for state child welfare agencies on what to consider when developing a preventive practice model that … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Education/Professional Development, Evidence-Based Practice, Family-Centered Practice, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Practice Models, Practice Supports, Prevention/Early Intervention, System Reform, Training | 2020 |
| 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 … | Communication, Community Engagement, Organizational Culture and Climate, Recruitment, Retention | 2020 |
| NCWWI Leadership Academy | The NCWWI Leadership Academy provides supervisors and managers with opportunities to become skilled in leading change, fostering collaborations, implementing results-oriented … | Adaptive Leadership, Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Coaching, Communication, Education/Professional Development, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Supervision, Training, Vision, Mission, and Values, Workforce Development Planning | 2020 |
| Supporting the Virtual Workforce: Coaching Remotely | Coaching in the child welfare workforce often happens face-to-face or in context of daily work activities. With our shift to … | Coaching, Education/Professional Development, Leadership | 2020 |
| Episode 50: Family First – Title IV-E Prevention Plan Implementation Updates, Part 1 | The Children’s Bureau (CB) hosted a webinar to share the lessons and experiences of two jurisdictions whose Title IV-E Prevention … | Policy Impact, Prevention/Early Intervention | 2020 |
| Strengthening Families Through Prevention and Collaboration: Child Welfare Virtual Expo (CWVE) 2020 | Explore collaborative approaches to advance prevention presented by people with lived and professional child welfare expertise. | Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, Family-Centered Practice, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Practice Supports, Trauma-informed Practice | 2020 |
| Department of Children and Families – Office of Resilience | The Office of Resilience facilitates initiatives related to preventing ACEs across the state of New Jersey. This site describes how … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2020 |
| Creating an Inclusive, Equitable, Anti-Racist Workplace | The need to focus on race and equity in child and family serving systems has been magnified by recent events. … | Advancing Racial Equity, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Organizational Culture and Climate | 2020 |
| Racial Equity Tools | There are two sections on this site that focus on organizational change. The PLAN/Issues section provides the concepts and frameworks … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Cultural Responsiveness, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Organizational Culture and Climate, Practice Models, Practice Supports, System Reform, Vision, Mission, and Values | 2020 |
| Baby courts: A proven approach to stop the multigenerational transmission of ACEs in child welfare; new efforts to establish courts nationwide | Florida’s “baby courts” use trauma-educated judges, multidisciplinary teams, and infant mental health clinicians to provide families support, strengthen relationships, and … | Practice Models, Trauma-informed Practice | 2020 |
| Coalition for Racial Equity and Social Justice | The Coalition4justice provides a safe space for all individuals to come together and engage in authentic conversations about racial and … | Advancing Racial Equity, Cultural Responsiveness, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity | 2020 |
| Mobilizing Action for Resilient Communities (MARC) through Policy and Advocacy (Toolkit) | This toolkit was created by the MARC Foundation to support and encourage cross-sector networks in trauma-informed policy and advocacy efforts. … | Communication, Policy Impact, Prevention/Early Intervention, Trauma-informed Practice | 2020 |
| Tribal Traineeship Programs: Legacies & Lessons Learned | This document provides recommendations based on successful innovations and strategies that were common across NCWWI’s Tribal traineeship programs, which were … | University Partnerships | 2019 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Learning Center | This webpage contains Children’s Bureau’s knowledge-building resources, including interactive training on the importance of family visits and best practice strategies … | Education/Professional Development | 2019 |
| Best Practices: Mentoring | This tool assists agencies in creating a case for mentoring by outlining critical steps in developing and implementing a formal … | Mentoring | 2019 |
| Mind the Gap #4: Child Welfare Training Competencies in Action: The Ohio Experience | This webinar shares the conceptual framework, essential components and functions of competency-based training systems; demonstrates an online survey process for … | Training | 2019 |
| National Staff Development and Training Association | This website provides resources on organizational development, staff development, and training and a network of membership sharing ideas to build … | Training | 2019 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Learning Center | This webpage contains Children’s Bureau’s knowledge-building resources, including interactive training on the importance of family visits and best practice strategies … | Training | 2019 |
| Continuum on Becoming an Anti-Racist Multicultural Organization | This is a chart that describes the six phases of becoming an anti racist multicultural organization. | Advancing Racial Equity | 2019 |
| Activity to Explore the Impact of Skin Color | This document guides an activity that illustrates the different experiences participants may have based on the color of their skin … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2019 |
| Confronting Racial Bias at Work: Challenges and Solutions for 21st Century Employment Discrimination | This report reviews the systemic barriers impacting workers of color drawing upon academic research, interviews with discrimination lawyers and EEOC … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2019 |
| Understanding Structural Racism Activity | This activity helps participants delve deeper in analyzing racism and start to learn how to use a structural racism lens. … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2019 |
| Logic Model Template | This document is a sample logic model worksheet for racial equity and particular issues. | Advancing Racial Equity | 2019 |
| Places to Watch: Promising Practices to Address Racial Disproportionality in Child Welfare | This report shares ten jurisdictions’ approaches to reducing racial disproportionality and disparities in their child welfare services in order to … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2019 |
| The Wakanheza Project™ Creating Welcoming Environments | This document provides principles and strategies that prevent or de-escalate stressful situations in public to create more welcoming environments for … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2019 |
| Achieving Racial Equity: Child Welfare Policy Strategies to Improve Outcomes for Children of Color | This report begins by providing contextual information about the disparities often experienced by children and families of color, followed by … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2019 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Retention | This section provides resources on the challenge of retaining workers in child welfare, describing the factors that contribute to worker … | Turnover | 2019 |
| Leading Change with Vision (2 minute microlearning) | At just over two minutes, this microlearning course explains how to develop effective vision statements for change initiatives. | Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership, Vision, Mission, and Values | 2019 |
| Exploring Diversity – Race and Culture in the Inclusive Workplace | This paper focuses on strategies for creating an inclusive work environment for any segment of the population including women, LGBT … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2019 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Supervising for Organizational Change | This webpage includes resources that provide strategies and tools for supervisors involved in planning, initiating, or implementing systems change, including … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2019 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Organizational Change | This webpage includes resources that provide strategies and tools for supervisors involved in planning, initiating, or implementing systems change, including … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2019 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Developing & Implementing Agency Mission & Policy | moving toward strengths-based, family-centered practice, and how to create effective mission and vision statements. | Vision, Mission, and Values | 2019 |
| Paying Attention to Worker Safety in Domestic Violence Cases | This is a blog post offers ways to minimize danger when dealing with perpetrators of domestic violence. | Worker Safety | 2019 |
| EveryDay Self Defense Personal Safety Tip Sheet | This tip sheet provides safety recommendations on how to stay safe including: the basics, in your client’s home, on the … | Worker Safety | 2019 |
| Safety Tips for Home Visits from a Veteran NYC Social Worker | This webpage includes a list of safety tips for all social workers whose jobs include field work, but some are … | Worker Safety | 2019 |
| Home Visitor Safety: General Safety Guidelines – PPT (OK) | This presentation aims to teach participants to identify and understand the importance of maintaining a safe environment for working in … | Worker Safety | 2019 |
| Home Visitor Safety: General Safety Guidelines – video (OK) | This video aims to teach participants to identify and understand the importance of maintaining a safe environment for working in … | Worker Safety | 2019 |
| Secondary Traumatic Stress Informed Organization Assessment Tool (STSI-OA) | This webpage provides a tool to evaluate the degree to which an organization is STS-informed, and able to respond to … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2019 |
| Professional Self-Care Website: University of Houston | This website provides knowledge and skills for integrating the practice of professional self-care in the social work profession. | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2019 |
| Self-Care Starter Kit | This webpage offers a collection of self-care tools and resources—designed to help students cope with the stresses of academic life … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2019 |
| What about You? A Workbook for Those who Work with Others | This guide offers strategies for assessing, evaluating, and incorporating self-care strategies to not only take care of one’s self, but … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2019 |
| The Sanctuary Model of Trauma Informed Organizational Change | This model guides an organization in the development of a culture with seven dominant characteristics (Nonviolence, Emotional Intelligence, Social Learning, … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2019 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Burnout/Trauma | This webpage provides resources to address the challenges professionals face and ways to cope with secondary trauma when working in … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2019 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Realistic Job Previews | This webpage features Realistic Job Preview videos from different states, along with supplemental materials and resources, which demonstrate the development, … | Job Analysis and Position Requirements | 2019 |
| Realistic Job Previews: Frequently Asked Questions & Answers | This document explains a recruiting approach called Realistic Job Preview (RJP), its purpose, what information agencies should include, how to … | Job Analysis and Position Requirements | 2019 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Recruitment & Hiring | This section of the Child Welfare Information Gateway includes resources essential to effective recruitment and hiring programs and practices categorized … | Recruitment | 2019 |
| CFPM Recruitment and Selection Best Practices (w/Tip Sheets) | This guide provides best practices for recruitment and selection of staff who will deliver the Child and Family Practice Model … | Recruitment | 2019 |
| CFPM Recruitment and Selection Best Practices (w/Tip Sheets) | This guide provides best practices for recruitment and selection of staff who will deliver the Child and Family Practice Model … | Screening and Selection | 2019 |
| The Active Implementation Hub | Change Implementation | 2019 | |
| California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare: Implementation Resources Section | Change Implementation | 2019 | |
| National Implementation Research Network | Change Implementation | 2019 | |
| Evidence-Based Practice in Child Welfare: Implication for Research & Education | This PowerPoint presentation outlines the history, challenges and approaches of implementing evidence-based practice into Child Welfare, presenting emerging best practices … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2019 |
| FRIENDS National Resource Center for CBCAP: Evaluation Toolkit | FRIENDS National Resource Center for CBCAP: Evaluation Toolkit | Evidence-Based Practice | 2019 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Citizen Review Panels | This webpage provides various resources, which include State and local examples, focusing on the operation of CRBs, including development, preparation … | Community Engagement | 2019 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Public Awareness & Creating Supportive Communities | This webpage provides resources and information focused on creating public awareness as part of an overall approach to preventing child … | Community Engagement | 2019 |
| FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention | This website provides services to the CBCAP community through targeted training and technical assistance efforts. These efforts include an annual … | Community Engagement | 2019 |
| How the Child Welfare System Works | This factsheet provides a brief overview of the child welfare system and its purposes and functions. Child welfare systems typically … | Community Engagement | 2019 |
| 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 … | Community Engagement | 2019 |
| National Technical Assistance and Evaluation Center for Child Welfare Systems of Care Grantees | This webpage provides resources to support grantees’ efforts to improve outcomes for children and families through the Systems of Care … | Community Engagement | 2019 |
| Parent Leadership | This webpage provides approaches to mobilizing parents to be effective change agents on behalf of their children, and resources to … | Community Engagement | 2019 |
| Stories of Parent Leadership | This webpage provides excerpts from interviews of parent leaders who work in their communities and nationally to help family support … | Community Engagement | 2019 |
| Systems of Care Communication Toolkit | This toolkit incorporates successful communication strategies, communication products that supported the execution of these strategies, and lessons learned by various … | Change Implementation, Communication, Community Engagement | 2019 |
| Systems of Care Coordination of Services and Service Array Toolkit | This toolkit outlines how to integrate a comprehensive array of services and supports to actualize your system of care, as … | Community Engagement | 2019 |
| Systems of Care Governance Toolkit | This toolkit addresses key issues and processes involved in conducting or supervising day-to-day operations associated with developing, implementing, and sustaining … | Community Engagement | 2019 |
| Systems of Care Policy Action Guide | This guide is a capacity building tool that supports the process of identifying and advancing policy strategies to improve child … | Community Engagement | 2019 |
| Systems of Care Policy Toolkit | This toolkit outlines how to forge policy to sustain system of care work and provides examples of legislation, memorandums of … | Community Engagement | 2019 |
| Systems of Care Toolkits | This toolkit is a compilation of nine easily navigable guides—discussing related activities, tasks, sustainability, key partners and examples from the … | Community Engagement | 2019 |
| Writing Effective Performance Standards | This training course helps supervisors make connections between performance standards and the agency’s mission, vision and values in order to … | Performance Management | 2019 |
| Common Core Curricula for Child Welfare Supervisors (California) | CalSWEC’s in-service training partners deliver the Common Core for Supervisors statewide. New supervisors are required to complete six modules within … | Supervision | 2019 |
| Resource Guide to Trauma-Informed Human Services | This online guide provides human services leaders at the local, State, Tribal, and Territorial levels with information and resources on … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2019 |
| Chadwick Trauma-Informed Systems Dissemination and Implementation Project | This website promotes creating trauma-informed child welfare systems across the country. | Trauma-informed Practice | 2019 |
| Secondary Trauma | This webpage provides resources that address the challenges professionals face and ways to cope with secondary trauma. (n.d) | Trauma-informed Practice | 2019 |
| What’s Sharing Power Got to Do with Trauma-informed Practice? | This document provides tips to encourage services providers to share power in the context of trauma-responsive practice and explains the … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2019 |
| Sharing Power: A Tool for Reflection | This tool to guides providers through a series of reflections that will help them identify opportunities to share power in … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2019 |
| Connect: Supporting Children Exposed to Domestic Violence | This presentation-ready trainer’s guide offers a basic training session for foster parents, kin caregivers, and adoptive parents on the dynamics … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2019 |
| Healing the Invisible Wounds: Children’s Exposure to Violence – A Guide for Families | This guide provides ways for caregivers to help children who have been exposed to violence. Recommended strategies are tailored to … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2019 |
| Birth Parents with Trauma Histories in the CW System: A Guide for Parents | This guide for child welfare staff explains how a history of trauma can affect parents, how caseworkers can use a … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2019 |
| Washington State Division of Children & Family Services: Family-Centered Practice Model | This document describes Washington State’s family-centered approach to child welfare services, and the intended benefits and outcomes of these services. | Practice Models | 2019 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Family Centered Practice | This section provides key elements of family-centered practice and provides overarching strategies for family-centered casework practice across child welfare service … | Family-Centered Practice | 2019 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Child Welfare Practice Models | This section of the Child Welfare Information Gateway includes best practice models to improve safety, permanency, and well-being for children. … | Practice Models | 2019 |
| Solution Based Casework | This website provides information, training, and resources for Solution-Based Casework, an evidenced-informed casework practice model that prioritizes working in partnership … | Practice Models | 2019 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Child Welfare Practice Models | This section of the Child Welfare Information Gateway includes best practice models to improve safety, permanency, and well-being for children. … | Practice Models | 2019 |
| State Statutes Related to the Indian Child Welfare Act | This webpage provides states’ statutes related to strengthening, enhancing or complying with the federal Indian Child Welfare Act. Keywords: Native … | Practice Supports | 2019 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Engaging Families | This webpage provides resources addressing how to understand and fully engage families in child welfare services including State and local … | Family-Centered Practice | 2019 |
| National Center on Family Group Decision Making | This webpage provides information on training and consultation, research, resources, and events related to the Family Group Decision Making (FGDM) … | Family-Centered Practice | 2019 |
| Family Engagement Inventory | This website presents the Family Engagement Inventory (FEI), an interactive web-based tool designed to familiarize professionals in child welfare, juvenile … | Family-Centered Practice | 2019 |
| Creating Effective Parent-Practitioner Partnerships: FRIENDS Online Learning Center Course | This course defines the roles and lists the benefits of parent leadership, describes common fears and barriers of parent leadership, … | Family-Centered Practice | 2019 |
| Parent Leadership: FRIENDS Online Learning Center Course | This course addresses the benefits of parent leadership to parents, agencies, and programs; ways to nurture parent leadership; how the … | Family-Centered Practice | 2019 |
| Iowa Parent Partners Program | This webpage offers all relevant information for the Parent Partners Program, a key strategy to improving practice with families by … | Family-Centered Practice | 2019 |
| Family Engagement in Child Welfare Video Series | This video series and accompanying discussion guides showcase the experiences of two Systems of Care communities that worked with birth … | Family-Centered Practice | 2019 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Agency Leadership | This webpage provides resources that describe aspects of leadership and leadership strategies that can improve agency effectiveness and impact the … | Adaptive Leadership | 2019 |
| 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 … | Leadership | 2019 |
| The Universe of Child Welfare Competencies (Ohio) | This webpage offers a comprehensive listing of all the competencies required for child welfare staff to do their jobs, which … | Performance Management | 2019 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Realistic Job Previews | This webpage features Realistic Job Preview videos from different states, along with supplemental materials and resources, which demonstrate the development, … | Screening and Selection | 2019 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Burnout/Trauma | This webpage provides resources to address the challenges professionals face and ways to cope with secondary trauma when working in … | Burnout | 2019 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Burnout/Trauma | This webpage provides resources to address the challenges professionals face and ways to cope with secondary trauma when working in … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2019 |
| National Child Traumatic Stress Network | NCTSN has collaborated with policy makers since their inception by Congress in 2000. Through this collection of resources, policy makers … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2019 |
| Secondary Traumatic Stress Informed Organization Assessment Tool (STSI-OA) | This webpage provides a tool to evaluate the degree to which an organization is STS-informed, and able to respond to … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2019 |
| Allegheny County Data Warehouse | This webpage highlights a human service agency’s data warehouse that provides the central repository of social services data, allows DHS … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2019 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Information Systems & Data | This webpage offers resources that address the use of information systems and data in child welfare, including planning and implementing … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2019 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Qualitative Case Review | This webpage contains resources describing the general process of qualitative case review and includes State and local examples that describe … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2019 |
| Logic Model Builder | This webpage helps users create logic models for Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention/Family Support and Postadoption Services Programs, guiding the … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2019 |
| National Data Archive on Child Abuse & Neglect | This website, for The National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN), promotes scholarly exchange among researchers in the … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2019 |
| NCWWI Workforce Development Framework Brief | This document outlines NCWWI’s Workforce Development Framework (WDF) which is intended to help agency leaders understand best and promising practices … | Workforce Development Planning | 2019 |
| Systems of Care Policy Action Guide | Change Implementation | 2019 | |
| Best Practices: Mentoring | This tool assists agencies in creating a case for mentoring by outlining critical steps in developing and implementing a formal … | Education/Professional Development | 2019 |
| The Universe of Child Welfare Competencies (Ohio) | This webpage offers a comprehensive listing of all the competencies required for child welfare staff to do their jobs, which … | Education/Professional Development | 2019 |
| Mind the Gap #4: Child Welfare Training Competencies in Action: The Ohio Experience | This webinar shares the conceptual framework, essential components and functions of competency-based training systems; demonstrates an online survey process for … | Education/Professional Development | 2019 |
| Tribal Traineeship Programs: Legacies & Lessons Learned | This document provides recommendations based on successful innovations and strategies that were common across NCWWI’s Tribal traineeship programs, which were … | Education/Professional Development | 2019 |
| Cultural Humility Practice Principles | This 1-page summary lists 10 practice principles for cultural humility. | Communication, Cultural Responsiveness | 2019 |
| Drivers Best Practices Assessment | The purpose of the Drivers Best Practices Assessment (DBPA) is to assist organizations in assessing their current supports and resources for … | Change Implementation | 2019 |
| Five Guiding Principles for Integrating Racial and Ethnic Equity in Research | This article summarizes five guiding principles for integrating racial and ethnic equity in research, including: examining backgrounds and biases, committing … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2019 |
| How to Embed a Racial and Ethnic Equity Perspective in Research: Practical Guidance for the Research Process | For child and youth research to inform and improve policies, programs, and public opinion, it must identify, explore, and explain … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2019 |
| Dismantling Racial Inequity #2: Community Collaboration and Grassroots Effort | This webinar is the second session of “Dismantling Racial Inequity Through Child Welfare Systems Change” webinar series and highlights the … | Community Engagement, Tribal Child Welfare, Tribal Sovereignty | 2019 |
| Resources for Healthy Generations | Change Implementation | 2019 | |
| Resources for Healthy Generations | This document provides a list of substance abuse, child welfare, and domestic violence resources designed specifically for tribal communities. | Tribal Child Welfare | 2019 |
| States’ Consultation and Collaboration with Tribes and Reported Compliance with the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) | This report is a summary of the information states provided in their 2015–2019 Child and Family Services Plan’s (CFSP) in … | Tribal Child Welfare | 2019 |
| Planning for Your Program’s Child Welfare Data System | This two-page resource offers concise guiding questions for programs to consider as they develop or enhance a data system. Data … | Tribal Child Welfare | 2019 |
| Navigating Rough Waters: Lessons Learned & Challenges to Avoid When Planning a Tribal Child Welfare Data System | When programs journey through the river of data, knowing how to navigate rough waters and overcome challenges can make a … | Tribal Child Welfare | 2019 |
| Improving the Welfare of Native Children by Using & Managing Data | Covering the basics of data, this brief resource includes information on how data can be used to address issues and … | Tribal Child Welfare | 2019 |
| Collaborative & Effective Evaluation in Tribal Communities: The Roles and Voices of Key Stakeholders | This video describes the roles of key stakeholders to create a new narrative for evaluation in Tribal communities and reflects … | Tribal Child Welfare | 2019 |
| Creating a New Narrative: Collaborative and Effective Evaluation in Tribal Communities | This video describes historical experiences of intrusive research and judgmental evaluations that have caused harm to many American Indian and … | Tribal Child Welfare | 2019 |
| A Roadmap for Collaborative and Effective Evaluation in Tribal Communities | The guide identifies values and priorities that can foster trust and build the knowledge and skills of Tribes, their evaluation … | Tribal Child Welfare | 2019 |
| Support Matters: Lessons from the Field on Services for Adoptive, Foster, and Kinship Care Families | This guide provides State, Tribal, and Territorial child welfare managers and administrators information about effective strategies for developing data-driven adoption, … | Tribal Child Welfare | 2019 |
| Effective Leadership for Tribal Child Welfare | This guide provides some basic information on how to establish effective tribal governance and the role of tribal leadership in … | Tribal Child Welfare | 2019 |
| Leading Practice: A Resource Guide for Child Protection Leaders | This guide operationalizes five leadership capabilities – critical reflection, engaging others, managing oneself, delivering results and leading and inspiring. It … | Tribal Child Welfare | 2019 |
| Introduction to Results Count Path to Equity | This introduction describes four skills that help leaders to achieve better and more equitable results. The skills are part of … | Leadership | 2019 |
| SEC conversations with parents | The Conversation Guide provides all of the resources needed to convene an informal but focused conversation. It is designed to … | Practice Supports | 2019 |
| Supervisor Learning Circles (Georgia) | This website provides information about Georgia’s Supervisor Learning Circles which help promote the use of critical thinking skills that impact … | Supervision | 2019 |
| Operationalizing Equity: putting the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s racial and ethnic equity and inclusion framework into action | This document follows the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s journey of race equity and inclusion. It contains their framework of implementation … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2019 |
| Evaluation Plan Development Tip Sheet | The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services designed this tip sheet to assist child welfare professionals in developing strong … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2019 |
| Transforming Child Welfare Systems Impact of Homelessness and Housing Instability | Identifies impact of homelessness and housing instability on child welfare involvement and placement in foster care as well as strategies … | Community Engagement | 2019 |
| Five Guiding Principles for Integrating Racial and Ethnic Equity in Research | To advance the goal of incorporating a racial and ethnic equity perspective in research and evaluation, Child Trends presents five … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2019 |
| How to Embed a Racial and Ethnic Equity Perspective in Research | This document provides guidance on how child and youth researchers can incorporate a racial and ethnic equity perspective across the … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2019 |
| What Employees Want Most from Their Workspaces | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2019 | |
| Self-Care Music Playlists | This one page document provides examples of music playlists to include in a self-care plan. | Burnout | 2019 |
| Self-Care Resource List | This one page document lists links to self-care resources. | Burnout | 2019 |
| Self-Care Strategies | This two page document lists six self-care strategies. | Burnout | 2019 |
| Arkansas Title IV-E Prevention Program | Arkansas’s Families First Implementation plan | System Reform | 2019 |
| Change and Implementation in Practice | The Change and Implementation in Practice series is a collection of research-informed and user-friendly resources that can help agencies achieve … | System Reform | 2019 |
| Five Steps to a Stronger Child Welfare Workforce Podcast | This podcast episode explores the key components and requirements of a five-step process developed by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. | Workforce Development Planning | 2019 |
| How We Partner With the Community to Improve Service Options Podcast Series | This webinar series presents stories from the field that illustrate how agencies are changing organizational culture to support collaborative development … | Community Engagement | 2019 |
| Judge William Thorne on the History and Healing of American Indian Families | In this podcast episode Judge Thorne reflects on federal policies — such as the boarding school movement — that have … | Tribal Child Welfare | 2019 |
| “The stress is indescribable”: Self-reported Health Implications from Child Welfare Supervisors | The unique nature of the frontline supervisor role places them at risk of experiencing compounded levels of stress, yet they … | Supervision | 2019 |
| Coaching Webinar Series | A five-part webinar series to discuss and share the positive impacts of coaching in human services hosted by the Northern … | Coaching | 2019 |
| Evidence Base for Avoiding Family Separation in Child Welfare Practice | This report presents an overview of the current social science literature related to the impact of out-of-home placement and family … | Family-Centered Practice | 2019 |
| Family First Prevention Services Act Of 2018 | The role of the courts in implementation of Families First. | System Reform | 2019 |
| Family First Prevention Services Act: Implications For Addressing Youth Homelessness | The paper, from National Network for Youth and ChildFocus, outlines how the Family First Prevention Services Act can be leveraged … | Family-Centered Practice | 2019 |
| Getting Everyone on the Same Page: Child Welfare Workers’ Collaboration Challenges on Cases Involving Intimate Partner Violence | This study explores child welfare workers’ perspectives on collaboration challenges specific to child welfare cases that also involve interpersonal partner … | Community Engagement | 2019 |
| Innovative Approaches to Disseminating Training on the Protective Factors | This webinar is about innovative ways Strengthening Families training is being provided around the country, including discussion on online training … | Training | 2019 |
| Moral Injury in Child Protection Workers | This video features the perspectives of three frontline social workers at various stages of their child protection careers and highlights … | Practice Supports | 2019 |
| The Evidence Decision-Makers Want | The Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) works to promote the use of evidence in decision-making by leaders … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2019 |
| Three Branch ToolKit & Webinar | The Three Branch Toolkit and Webinar describe how a three-branch approach takes an intentional step back from governing as usual … | System Reform | 2019 |
| Utah’s Family First Plan Approved | The Utah Department of Human Services’ (DHS) Family First Prevention Services Act plan, approved by the Federal Children’s Bureau will … | System Reform | 2019 |
| Key Equity Terms and Concepts: A Glossary for Shared Understanding | Developing a shared language for thoughtful discussion about equity is critical for all of our work. This glossary of key … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2019 |
| Building a Multi-system Trauma-informed Collaborative | This guide provides an overview of the types, prevalence, and effects of trauma and its implications for child-serving systems along … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2019 |
| Learning to Speak Up for Equity In the Workplace | This article addresses common fears surrounding speaking up for equity in the workplace and how to overcome them. | Advancing Racial Equity | 2019 |
| Narrative Change: A Working Definition (and Some Related Terms) | This brief provides a list of definitions of terms related to narrative change. | Communication, Community Engagement, Leadership | 2019 |
| Finding and Reaching the Audience for Your Narrative Project | This worksheet supports finding and reaching an audience for your narrative project by exploring “who, what, and where” (i.e., who … | Communication, Community Engagement, Leadership | 2019 |
| Family Engagement Playbook | A collection of research-based actionable resources to strengthen individual competencies and organizational support for meaningful family engagement. | Change Implementation, Coaching, Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, Family-Centered Practice, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Organizational Culture and Climate, Practice Supports, System Reform | 2019 |
| A Tool for Transformative Family Engagement: A Commentary on the Family Engagement Playbook | An overview of the Family Engagement Playbook, a set of research-based, actionable resources to strengthen individual competencies and organizational support … | Community Engagement, Family-Centered Practice, Organizational Culture and Climate, Practice Supports | 2019 |
| Annie E. Casey Family First Communication Toolkit | A downloadable toolkit to help child welfare leaders, providers, advocates, and others talk about how the Family First Prevention Services … | Change Implementation, Communication, Education/Professional Development, Family-Centered Practice, Practice Supports, Prevention/Early Intervention, System Reform, Training | 2019 |
| TeamFirst A Field Guide for Safe, Reliable, and Effective Child Welfare Teams | A reference book for safe, reliable and more effective teamwork. Readers will find descriptions of specific team-based strategies and tactics … | Change Implementation, Organizational Culture and Climate, Practice Models, Practice Supports, Supervision, Work Conditions and Benefits, Workforce Development Planning | 2019 |
| Identifying, Preventing, and Treating Childhood Trauma: Pervasive Public Health Issue that Needs Greater Federal Attention | This Committee meeting heard directly from trauma survivors, public health experts, and government officials about the long-term consequences of childhood … | Community Engagement, Prevention/Early Intervention, Trauma-informed Practice | 2019 |
| State Roundtable Reports on Caseworker Retention | The State Roundtable establishes workgroups to research and address statewide areas of concern for the PA Dependency System. Workgroup membership … | Burnout, Retention, Supervision, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits, Workforce Development Planning, Workload | 2019 |
| The Unseen Costs of Foster Care: A Social Return on Investment Study | This report shares some of what we have heard from those on the inside of foster care and child welfare. … | Change Implementation, Family-Centered Practice, Practice Supports, Prevention/Early Intervention, System Reform, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits, Workforce Development Planning | 2019 |
| 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 … | Community Engagement, Education/Professional Development, Practice Supports, Training, Trauma-informed Practice | 2019 |
| Eight principles and practices of Indigenous child welfare: An excerpt from Pathways in a Forest | The report highlights efforts by Indigenous families, communities, and Nations to revitalize Indigenous approaches to child welfare, develop comprehensive community-based … | Advancing Racial Equity, Cultural Responsiveness, Family-Centered Practice, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Practice Models, Practice Supports, Trauma-informed Practice, Tribal Child Welfare, Tribal Sovereignty | 2019 |
| Strategy Maps Video | This is a video on how to use strategy maps. | Trauma-informed Practice | 2019 |
| Transforming Foster Care Strategy Map | This is a systems thinking strategy map that goes over the foster care system on an institutional level. It also … | Practice Supports, Trauma-informed Practice | 2019 |
| CWIG Workforce Podcast Series Episode 3: Child Welfare Scholars | Hear about a NCWWI university-agency partnership between the University of North Dakota Department of Social Work and the North Dakota … | University Partnerships | 2018 |
| ICWA: Working with Native American Families and Tribes – Trainer Guide | This trainer guide reviews the ICWA law and requirements (Spirit of the Law) and the historic context. Keywords: Native American, … | Training | 2018 |
| Coaching: A Global Study of Successful Practices | This study explores the use of coaching in order to determine its popularity, its association with higher performance, the correlation … | Coaching | 2018 |
| Child Protective Services: A Guide for Caseworkers – Supervision, Consultation & Support | This manual examines the roles and responsibilities of child protective services (CPS) workers; describes the purposes, key decisions, and issues … | Education/Professional Development | 2018 |
| Simulation Labs for Child Welfare Education and Training (1-page Summary) | This document summarizes a NCWWI webinar that provides an overview of developing a Simulation Lab, an innovative technique being utilized … | Education/Professional Development | 2018 |
| Pennsylvania Child Welfare Training Program – Online Curriculum | Education/Professional Development | 2018 | |
| Oregon Child Welfare Core: Activity Guide | This guide provides task, assignments and learning objectives for each Oregon Child Welfare Core Training program area: Child Abuse and … | Training | 2018 |
| Microaggressions: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This document summarizes an article that evaluates microaggressions and proposes possible approaches to handling situations in which microaggressions occur. The … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2018 |
| Dismantling Racial Inequity #5: Strengthening Our Efforts Through Partnerships with Academia | This fifth session of “Dismantling Racial Inequity Through Child Welfare Systems Change” webinar series will highlight New York State’s Office … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2018 |
| 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 … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2018 |
| Dismantling Racial Inequity #4: Slow and Steady Wins the RACE of Child Welfare Equity | This fourth session of “Dismantling Racial Inequity Through Child Welfare Systems Change” webinar series will highlight how Connecticut Department of … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2018 |
| 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 … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2018 |
| Internal and External Job Resources: NCWWI 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 … | Burnout | 2018 |
| A State and Local Government Leaders Guide to Building the Public Workforce of the Future | This guide has examples of effective strategies that can serve as a roadmap to help state and local government agencies … | Turnover | 2018 |
| Resilience After Violence: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This document summarizes an article that reviews the prevalence of workplace violence in child welfare, describes prevention strategies, suggests a … | Organizational Culture and Climate, Worker Safety | 2018 |
| Resilience After Violence: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This document summarizes an article that reviews the prevalence of workplace violence in child welfare, describes prevention strategies, suggests a … | Worker Safety | 2018 |
| Worker Resilience: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This document summarizes an article that weaves together quantitative and qualitative research to explore how social workers build and maintain … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2018 |
| When Preparation Meets Opportunity | Anne Graham, a child welfare middle manager from New Hampshire, developed a much needed change initiative during her participation in … | Change Implementation | 2018 |
| Stages of Change | This guide for systems change outlines the five stages of change and provides brief user-friendly information with links to additional … | Change Implementation | 2018 |
| 2018 Annual Progress and Services Report: New Hampshire Division for Children, Youth and Families | This report provides updates on the continued implementation of New Hampshire’s Practice Model and key goals and initiatives outlined in … | Change Implementation | 2018 |
| CWIG Workforce Podcast Series Episode 2: A State’s Approach to Change | This podcast, hosted by the Child Welfare Information Gateway (CWIG), shares an example of how one state changed its approach … | Change Implementation | 2018 |
| Weaving Together Agency Staff Around Organizational Change | Change Implementation | 2018 | |
| CWIG Workforce Podcast Series Episode 4: Creating Change at the Local Level | Change Implementation | 2018 | |
| Partnerships, Evaluation, and Effective Practice in Child Welfare: Introducing a New Framework (Part 1) | This video introduces a practical guide for strengthening child welfare systems called “A Framework to Design, Test, Spread, and Sustain … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2018 |
| A National Imperative: Joining Forces to Strengthen Human Services in America | This report focuses on human services community-based organizations, their economic and social impact, and the need to preserve and strengthen … | Community Engagement | 2018 |
| Creating a Supportive Community Context (5 minute microlearning) | People need to feel that as child welfare professionals, they are a valued partner in the larger community and that … | Community Engagement | 2018 |
| Partnership for Sustainable Change (12 minutes) | Research indicates that change is not sustainable when we do not meaningfully engage those most impacted by a change (even … | Community Engagement | 2018 |
| Rural Child Welfare Practice | This issue brief highlights the importance of understanding the concerns and needs of children and families in rural communities, their … | Community Engagement | 2018 |
| Changing Supervision Lenses: Zooming in and out | Effective supervisors must zoom in and out to get the full picture of any situation. Twan Stokes from Indiana Department … | Supervision | 2018 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Supervising Child Welfare Services | This section provides resources on many aspects of supervision, including clinical and administrative supervision, improving staff performance and retention through … | Supervision | 2018 |
| Best Practice Series, Tutorial 7: Recognizing & Addressing Trauma in Infants, Young Children & Their Families | This tutorial aims to help early childhood mental health consultants as well as Early Head Start and Head Start staff … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2018 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Trauma | This webpage offers resources and information on trauma experienced by children who have been abused, neglected, and separated from their … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2018 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Assessing Child Trauma | This webpage presents resources for professionals on screening and assessing trauma in children and youth. | Trauma-informed Practice | 2018 |
| National Child Traumatic Stress Network | This webpage provides National Child Traumatic Stress Network materials on various child traumatic stress topics and designed for diverse audiences. … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2018 |
| Child Protective Services: A Guide for Caseworkers | This manual examines the roles and responsibilities of child protective services (CPS) workers; describes the purposes, key decisions, and issues … | Practice Supports | 2018 |
| For Missouri Field Support Manager, It’s All About Relationships | Dana Jones, a Field Support and Training Manager in Missouri, was facing high staff turnover rates and an over-stressed child … | Leadership | 2018 |
| Leading Through Understanding the Role of Life Stories | Understanding the personal journey – or context – that leads people to a career in child welfare is an important … | Communication, Leadership | 2018 |
| Foundations of Leadership | This training course introduces administrators to leadership and organizational effectiveness, outlines the development of a change plan that engages staff … | Leadership | 2018 |
| Collaborating to Collect and use Data to Inform Quality Contacts | This tip sheet offers considerations and collaborative strategies related to the collection, analysis, and use of quality contact data. | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2018 |
| CWIG Workforce Podcast Series Episode 1: The Workforce Development Framework | This podcast, hosted by the Child Welfare Information Gateway (CWIG), gives listeners an opportunity to hear about how addressing your … | Workforce Development Planning | 2018 |
| Improving the Welfare of Native Children by Using & Managing Data | Covering the basics of data, this brief resource includes information on how data can be used to address issues and … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2018 |
| Learning, Leading, Changing | For decades, the approach to workforce issues in child welfare was crisis-driven. Workers were not sufficiently supported, and states struggled … | Workforce Development Planning | 2018 |
| Navigating Rough Waters: Lessons Learned & Challenges to Avoid When Planning a Tribal Child Welfare Data System | When programs journey through the river of data, knowing how to navigate rough waters and overcome challenges can make a … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2018 |
| Planning for Your Program’s Child Welfare Data System | This two-page resource offers concise guiding questions for programs to consider as they develop or enhance a data system. Data … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2018 |
| Real Stories from the Field Tool Kit | This toolkit features real stories and supports discussions with staff, students, and/or community members about innovative workforce development initiatives to … | Workforce Development Planning | 2018 |
| Workforce Excellence in Missouri | The Missouri Children’s Division faced big challenges prior to 2014. Too many children were in out-of-home care, child welfare workers … | Workforce Development Planning | 2018 |
| Coaching: A Global Study of Successful Practices | This study explores the use of coaching in order to determine its popularity, its association with higher performance, the correlation … | Education/Professional Development | 2018 |
| Oregon Child Welfare Core: Activity Guide | This guide provides task, assignments and learning objectives for each Oregon Child Welfare Core Training program area: Child Abuse and … | Education/Professional Development | 2018 |
| CWIG Workforce Podcast Series Episode 3: Child Welfare Scholars | Hear about a NCWWI university-agency partnership between the University of North Dakota Department of Social Work and the North Dakota … | Education/Professional Development | 2018 |
| Implicit Bias 101: Exploring Implicit Bias in Child Welfare | 4 online modules covering the basics of implicit bias, implications in child welfare, self-reflection, and mitigating unwanted biases. The purpose … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2018 |
| Families First: Readiness Assessment, Planning and Implementation | The Chapin Hall suite of tools, readiness assessment, and planning framework provide a phased approach to preparing for successful implementation. … | System Reform | 2018 |
| Issue Brief: What are preliminary building blocks to strengthen quality supervision? | Guidance for building quality supervision within child welfare organizations. Identifies building blocks and provides state level examples. | Supervision | 2018 |
| Action Planning Supervision Tool | Tool to be used in supervision to support worker capacity at assessing and understanding Protective Factors. | Practice Supports | 2018 |
| Coaching on Protective Factors | This brief is a worksheet for trainers to coach workers on the protective and promotive factors. It provides an overview … | Practice Supports | 2018 |
| Adapting Evidence-Based Programs in Child Welfare | This webinar explores how child welfare leaders and program developers can work together to adapt an evidence-based approach to the … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2018 |
| A Blueprint for Embedding Evidence-Based Practices in Child Welfare | This document assists leaders in child welfare in sustainably implementing evidence-based practices. This document breaks down the process into four … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2018 |
| Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture | This guide helps define race equity gaps in organizations as well as how to begin the process of building a … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2018 |
| Assessing Your Training System | This tool consists of a 34-question assessment that can be used to assess the effectiveness of approaches intended to build … | Training | 2018 |
| Core Concepts and Principles of Effective Case Management: Approaches for the social service workforce | This document describes the concept of case management and the basic ideas or rules that explain, outline or provide guidance … | Practice Supports | 2018 |
| Coaching for Competence and Confidence | Coaching is a technique that bridges the gap between research-informed training and every-day practice. This article explains the evidence and … | Coaching | 2018 |
| Communities Creating Racial Equity: Ripple Effects of Dialogues to Change | This document explores five case studies from New Mexico, Virginia, Kentucky, and New York and the role dialogue plays in … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2018 |
| Evaluating Community Engagement: An Evaluation Guide and Toolkit for Practical Use | This guide offers tips for evaluating community engagement. It is intended to be a practical, hands-on tool to help determine … | Community Engagement | 2018 |
| Five Steps to a Stronger Child Welfare Workforce: Hiring and retaining the right people on the frontline | Recognizing that turnover, retention and hiring the right people during organizational stress is difficult, the Annie E. Casey Foundation put … | Turnover | 2018 |
| Supporting Child Welfare Staff: The critical first three months | This is a brief summary of a digital dialogue between Cambria Rose Walsh and Alan O’Malley-Laursen, leading experts in the … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2018 |
| How to Prepare for a Family Assessment: Suggestions for caseworkers and frontline staff | This two-page summary discusses how to be self-aware and intentional during the decision-making process of family assessments. This publication takes … | Practice Supports | 2018 |
| Inventory of Innovations: Workforce Development | This document provides an overview of workforce development by addressing recruitment, retention, secondary trauma and burnout, job complexity, worker education, … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2018 |
| Family Assessment Tool: How to overcome bias | This tool can be used as a practical guide to help recognize and acknowledge bias and ways in which you … | Practice Supports | 2018 |
| Pennsylvania Child Welfare Competencies | This document provides examples of competencies and related behavioral indicators that are designed to reflect the knowledge and skills representative … | Performance Management | 2018 |
| Responding to Opioids: Practice Notes | This newsletter issue focuses on the opioid crisis in North Carolina and its impact on the Child Welfare System. Also … | Practice Supports | 2018 |
| Rural Child Welfare Practice | This issue brief is an introduction to understanding rural communities and their needs. It explores unique social service considerations, recruiting … | Community Engagement | 2018 |
| The Relationship between Substance Use Indicators and Child Welfare Caseloads | This brief presents results from a statistical analysis examining the relationship between indicators of substance use prevalence and child welfare … | Workload | 2018 |
| Tips for Implementation Teams | The purpose of this resource is to highlight some important considerations for systems and organizations to think about before they … | Change Implementation | 2018 |
| What is Child Welfare? A Guide for Law Enforcement | Each State has requirements for when and how law enforcement and child welfare should interact. This guide provides an overview … | Community Engagement | 2018 |
| Drivers Best Practices Assessment | The purpose of the Drivers Best Practices Assessment (DBPA) is to assist organizations in assessing their current supports and resources … | Change Implementation | 2018 |
| Change and Implementation in Practice: Teaming | Child welfare agency leaders, managers, change and implementation teams, continuous quality improvement teams, and other stakeholders can use the resources … | System Reform | 2018 |
| Building Community Resilience Policy and Advocacy Guide | The BCR Policy Guide is intended to assist organizations in becoming effective policy advocates and educators. It provides guidance to … | Change Implementation | 2018 |
| Building Community Resilience Policy and Advocacy Guide | The BCR Policy Guide is intended to assist organizations in becoming effective policy advocates and educators. It provides guidance to … | University Partnerships | 2018 |
| Building Community Resilience Policy and Advocacy Guide | The BCR Policy Guide is intended to assist organizations in becoming effective policy advocates and educators. It provides guidance to … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2018 |
| Case Management Supervision and Coaching Package | The Case Management Supervision and Coaching Training Package was created to increase case management supervisors’ confidence, capacity and support to … | Coaching | 2018 |
| Examining Internal and External Job Resources in Child Welfare: Protecting Against Caseworker Burnout | A central goal of this study was to understand internal and external resources that can mitigate the relationship between job … | Workforce Development Planning | 2018 |
| Indiana Department of Child Services Child Welfare Title IV-E Waiver Demonstration Project Final Report | This report describes how, during Title IV-E Waiver demonstration period, Indiana was able to spend dollars more flexibly to expand … | System Reform | 2018 |
| Mindfulness in Family Assessment | Making mindfulness practices an integral part of the culture, structure, and practice of child welfare organizations results in reduced stress, … | Family-Centered Practice | 2018 |
| Mindfulness in Family Assessment | Making mindfulness practices an integral part of the culture, structure, and practice of child welfare organizations results in reduced stress, … | Tribal Child Welfare | 2018 |
| Tribal sovereign status: Conceptualizing its integration into the social work curriculum | This banded dissertation contains three related products: a conceptual article, a research article, and the development of an original social … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2018 |
| Understanding Bias | This online learning tool was designed for direct service workers – but has helpful tips for everyone to better understand … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2018 |
| How to Overcome Bias | A handout created for the Understanding Bias tool that serves as a quick reference. – – – – – – – … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2018 |
| To Transform Child Welfare, Take Race Out of the Equation | In this eye-opening talk about the impact of race and neighborhood on foster-care decisions, social worker Jessica Pryce shares a … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2018 |
| Stress and the Child Welfare Workforce: Recognizing Signs of Secondary Traumatic Stress | This webpage outlines the different types of stressors child welfare workers may be exposed to in their everyday work, as … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2018 |
| Using the Secondary Traumatic Stress Core Competencies in Trauma-Informed Supervision | Discusses the importance of quality supervision that organizations can provide to staff members at risk for secondary traumatic stress (STS). … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2018 |
| Healing Guidebook | This guidebook provides practical tips & tools for working with children and youth who have experienced trauma (and for the … | Burnout, Organizational Culture and Climate, Practice Supports, Trauma-informed Practice, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2018 |
| Storytelling as a Catalyst for Systems Change | This brief provides a high-level overview of how storytelling can move systems change. | Communication, Community Engagement, Leadership | 2018 |
| Coaching For Success Demonstration | Explore the use of coaching within the context of child welfare supervision and casework practice to improve staff confidence and … | Coaching, Education/Professional Development, Leadership | 2018 |
| Illinois Birth through Three Waiver: Child and Family Intervention, Developmentally Informed Child and Family interventions | This final evaluation report presents findings from the Illinois Birth through Three (IB3) Title IV-E waiver demonstration. The waiver supported … | Family-Centered Practice, Practice Supports, Trauma-informed Practice | 2018 |
| The Future of Healing: Shifting from Trauma-Informed Care to Healing Centered Engagement | In this blog post, Ginwright describes the shortcomings of the term “trauma informed care,” as it is incomplete, requires that … | Change Implementation, Cultural Responsiveness, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Trauma-informed Practice | 2018 |
| Healing of the Canoe Training Center | This is a great resource for other tribal communities or organizations who are interested in developing a curriculum for youth … | Prevention/Early Intervention | 2018 |
| Coaching in Child Welfare | This issue brief supports child welfare administrators, managers, and supervisors in understanding the potential role of coaching and considerations for … | Coaching | 2017 |
| Simulation in Child Welfare Training: Moving Beyond Role Play | This guide provides an overview of simulation training for child welfare workers including the costs and benefits, considerations for trainer, … | Training | 2017 |
| Common Core Curricula in California | The California Common Core Curricula is publicly available as a resource to the child welfare field and provides information on … | Training | 2017 |
| Race Equity Crosswalk Tool | This tool guides teams through questions designed to counteract blind spots that may be keeping leaders from truly seeing the … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2017 |
| Racial Equity: Getting to Results | This tool highlights how to use a root cause analysis to dig deeply into the sources of racially inequitable outcomes, … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2017 |
| Race to Lead: Confronting the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap | This paper examines the racial leadership gap in the nonprofit sector, provides ways to change organizational and systemic barriers, and … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2017 |
| Promoting Child and Family Well Being through Civil Rights Compliance | This webinar focuses on Federal civil rights laws that protect children and families from discrimination in the child welfare system … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2017 |
| Promoting Child and Family Well-Being Through Civil Rights Compliance | This presentation focuses on Federal civil rights laws that protect children and families from discrimination in the child welfare system … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2017 |
| Pathways to Tribal Title IV-E: Tribal Title IV-E Options | This document assists tribes in determining if applying for direct Title IV-E funding or pursuing a Tribal-State Agreement might be … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2017 |
| Identifying Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Human Services: A Conceptual Framework and Literature Review | This report helps the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) build the base of knowledge necessary to reliably identify and … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2017 |
| Components for Developing Culturally Responsive Seven Approaches to Serving Diverse Populations | This guide lists seven components that serve as the foundation to creating culturally responsive programs. | Cultural Responsiveness | 2017 |
| Developing Culturally Responsive Approaches to Serving Diverse Populations: A Resource Guide for Community-Based Organizations | This resource guide identifies easily accessible resources on cultural competency that CBOs can use to become more responsive to the … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2017 |
| Operationalizing Equity | This report examines the challenges and breakthroughs experienced by Annie E. Casey Foundation to promote race equity and inclusion to … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2017 |
| Addressing Implicit Bias in the Child Welfare System | This presentation outlines disparities throughout the process (i.e, referral & investigation, substantiation, removal & out-of-home placement), impact of implicit bias, … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2017 |
| Dismantling Racial Inequity #1: Using an Institutional Analysis to Identify Core Issues and Spur Change | This webinar is the first session of “Dismantling Racial Inequity Through Child Welfare Systems Change” webinar series and shares key … | Change Implementation, Disproportionality & Disparities | 2017 |
| Tribal Equity toolkit 3.0: Tribal resolutions and codes to support two-spirit & LGBTQ justice in Indian Country | This toolkit identifies areas in which existing tribal laws may discriminate against Two Spirit/LGBT individuals and gives tribal legislators a … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2017 |
| Indian Child Welfare Resources from the National Conference of State Legislatures | This webpage provides resources about Indian Child Welfare Act, including background, basic provisions, federal guidance and courts, and general information … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2017 |
| Championing the Role of Child Welfare Professionals | This document provides strategies for improving workforce satisfaction and retention by proactively championing the difference that child welfare professionals make … | Communication, Turnover | 2017 |
| Balancing Head & Heart California’s Child Welfare Workforce | This newsletter from the California Child Welfare Co-Investment Partnership examines the valuable and complex work performed by California’s child welfare … | Turnover | 2017 |
| 2017 State Roundtable Report Caseworker Retention Workgroup – Pennsylvania | This report contains several resources to examine local caseworker retention to include guidance for calculating the cost of turnover within … | Turnover | 2017 |
| No Time to Wait: Building a Public Service for the 21st Century | This paper proposes that the federal government establish a new human capital system that would strengthen the ability of federal … | Turnover | 2017 |
| Child Protective Services Workforce Analysis and Recommendations | This report identifies challenges faced by Texas’ Child Protective Services’ to attract and retain a quality workforce, including recommendations for … | Turnover | 2017 |
| Turnover Intention Predictors: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This paper summarizes a meta-analysis of the existing literature on the turnover intentions of public child welfare caseworkers in the … | Turnover | 2017 |
| 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 … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2017 |
| Status Symbols and Employee Attitudes: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This paper summarizes a study hypothesizing that the physical setting of a workplace is a motivating force because it reflects … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2017 |
| Multi-Generational Differences in the Workplace | This training course explores the challenges of building and leading an agency team through the collision of Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2017 |
| Agency Culture: Promoting and Supporting Critical Thinking through Psychological Safety and Accountability | This training course identifies the characteristics of a learning environment and provides strategies for creating and supporting a learning environment. | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2017 |
| Balancing Head & Heart California’s Child Welfare Workforce | This newsletter from the California Child Welfare Co-Investment Partnership examines the valuable and complex work performed by California’s child welfare … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2017 |
| The Child Welfare Worker Safety Guide | This document defines child welfare worker safety, identifies potential causes of child welfare worker safety risk, and provides recommendations for … | Worker Safety | 2017 |
| Mind the Gap #10: Peer Mentoring, Crisis Response & Resilience-building – NJ DCF’s Worker2Worker | During this webinar, presenters deacribe the NJ Worker2Worker program, a confidential peer-counseling helpline and support approach for employees in the Department’s … | Worker Safety | 2017 |
| Social Worker Safety | This webpage provides resources from the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and other relevant links to materials on Social … | Worker Safety | 2017 |
| A State and Local Government Leader’s Guide to Building the Public Workforce of the Future | This guide has examples of effective strategies that can serve as a roadmap to help state and local government agencies … | Recruitment | 2017 |
| 4 Ways Implementation Support Centers Assist in the Delivery of Evidence-Based Programs | This fact sheet highlights four ways implementation support centers can support more effective implementation of evidence-based programs, thereby increasing the … | Change Implementation | 2017 |
| Context Matters: Recommendations for Funders & Program Developers Supporting Implementation in Rural Communities | This paper explores how funders and program developers can partner with rural communities to achieve improved outcomes for individuals and … | Change Implementation | 2017 |
| 3 Tools To Guide Change Efforts (2 minute microlearning) | This microlearning explains the 3 most popular tools used by those managing change efforts at their agency. | Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership | 2017 |
| Leadership and Organizational Change for Implementation | This webinar describes the work on leadership for implementing evidence-based practices (EBPs) in child welfare and other service settings, issues … | Change Implementation | 2017 |
| Change & the Roles People Play (2 minute microlearning) | At just over two minutes, this microlearning course provides an overview of the roles people play during different stages of … | Change Implementation, Communication, Community Engagement, Organizational Culture and Climate | 2017 |
| Balancing Head & Heart California’s Child Welfare Workforce | This newsletter from the California Child Welfare Co-Investment Partnership examines the valuable and complex work performed by California’s child welfare … | Workforce Development Planning | 2017 |
| What’s Standing in the Way of the Spread of Evidence-based Programs? | This paper examines the challenges of extending the reach and difference made by evidence-based programs and specifically focuses on the … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2017 |
| Funding Effective Implementation of Evidence-Based Programs in Child Welfare | This paper shares eight strategies to help child welfare agency administrators and partners fund and sustain evidence-based programs that benefit … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2017 |
| Organizational Readiness: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This paper provides a summary of a 7-factor model that reflects the items that most contribute to organizational readiness for … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2017 |
| Child and Family Evidence Based Practice Consortium Reference List | This website offers a wide range of research and publications on topics addressing implementation of evidence-based practice. | Evidence-Based Practice | 2017 |
| A Framework to Design, Test, Spread, and Sustain Effective Child Welfare Practice: Identify & Explore (Part 2) | This video explains the process of building evidence and spreading effective practice in child welfare begins with investigating a problem, … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2017 |
| ICWA Guide for Tribal Governments and Leaders | This guide provides recommended actions that tribal leadership can take towards ensuring compliance with the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). … | Tribal Child Welfare | 2017 |
| Community Approaches to Toxic Stress-Webinar | This webinar explores a new framework of community approaches to toxic stress within the broader context of healthy development and … | Community Engagement | 2017 |
| Joint Child Welfare Program Planning and Improvement: Infographic | This document illustrates the importance of joint planning between courts and agencies in order to work more effectively together to … | Community Engagement | 2017 |
| Indiana Supervisor Core Training | This training prepares new supervisors to practice continuous clinical supervision in order to: develop and implement effective leadership that integrates … | Supervision | 2017 |
| Performance Management in Child Welfare (5 minutes) | The quality of supervision, clear performance expectations and a coherent, consistent performance management system are key factors in promoting commitment … | Supervision | 2017 |
| Understanding Neurobiology of Psychological Trauma: Tips for Working with Transition-age Youth | This paper synthesizes the impact of trauma on the adolescent brain and contains practical tips for promoting engaging with transition … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2017 |
| What is Complex Trauma? A Resource Guide for Youth and Those Who Care About Them | This guide helps youth understand their traumatic experiences and helps clinicians, caregivers, and other adults have conversations with youth about … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2017 |
| Trauma: What Child Welfare Attorneys Should Know | This document provides child welfare attorneys with knowledge about trauma, practice tips for incorporating trauma-informed practices into legal representation, and … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2017 |
| Strengthening Family Coping Resources: Multi-family Group for Families Impacted by Trauma | This document provides general information on a manualized, trauma-focused, skill-building intervention called Strengthening Family Coping Resources. | Trauma-informed Practice | 2017 |
| Implementation of Trauma-informed Mental Health Screening in County Child Welfare Systems | This infographic summarizes an article on child welfare trauma-informed screening approaches in county-administered child welfare systems across California and provides … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2017 |
| NCTSN Impact: An Invitation to Explore the Network’s Data and Evaluation Initiatives | This issue of IMPACT focuses on the multifaceted role of data in improving the quality of care for children who … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2017 |
| Trauma-focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: A Web-based learning Course | This 10-hour web-based, multi-media, distance education course for mental health professionals seeking to learn Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), one of … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2017 |
| Florida’s Center for the Advancement of Child Welfare Practice: Trauma-informed Care | This website offers information and resources for Child Welfare professionals on the impact of trauma, treatment, secondary traumatic stress, and … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2017 |
| Building the Skills Adults Need for Life: A Guide for Practitioners | This guide for practitioners explains the science behind core life skills, what affects their development, and how practitioners can help. | Practice Supports | 2017 |
| Changing Systems & Practice to Improve Outcomes for Young Fathers, Their Children & Their Families | This brief makes recommendations for child welfare system policy and practice changes that recognize the critical role young fathers can … | Practice Supports | 2017 |
| Transformational Relationships for Youth Success | This brief shares lessons about the powerful difference that a transformational relationship can make in a young person’s life and … | Practice Supports | 2017 |
| Working With “Hard to Reach” Populations | This webinar examined practices on how to work with populations that are difficult to reach and explores how those populations … | Practice Supports | 2017 |
| 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 … | Practice Supports | 2017 |
| Planning With Youth in Transition: Tips, Tools and Techniques | This training course provides an overview of juvenile court rules related to older youth planning, explores transition assessment/planning tools, and … | Practice Supports | 2017 |
| Strengths Based Teams (4 minute microlearning) | The path to great leadership starts with a deep understanding of the strengths you bring to the table. Since no … | Adaptive Leadership, Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership | 2017 |
| Open to All Voices (4 minute microlearning) | Working effectively with a variety of stakeholders impacted by a change requires a diverse set of competencies which is why … | Adaptive Leadership, Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership | 2017 |
| A Results-Oriented Culture (7 minute microlearning) | Leaders in a results-oriented culture look at data, interpret it, and take action to make changes to improve outcomes based … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2017 |
| Dismantling Racial Inequity #3: A Data-Driven Approach to Improving Outcomes for Black Girls in Child Welfare | This third session of “Dismantling Racial Inequity Through Child Welfare Systems Change” webinar series will highlight how Allegheny County Department … | Data-Driven Decision Making, Disproportionality & Disparities | 2017 |
| Making Decisions in Child Welfare | This issue of Practice Notes addresses new ways to ensure decisions are fair, well-informed, and lead to the best possible … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2017 |
| New Jersey Workforce Report: Annual Update 2016-2017 | workforce and leadership functioning as well as system reform benchmarks in its commitment to the safety and well-being of children … | Workforce Development Planning | 2017 |
| Profile of the Social Work Workforce | This report presents the size of the workforce, demographic and educational background, work setting, compensation, and geographical distribution. ( | Workforce Development Planning | 2017 |
| Using Integrated Data Systems to Improve Child Welfare Outcomes | This document highlights the use of integrated data systems by Wisconsin and Washington to evaluate and understand how child support … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2017 |
| Changing Systems & Practice to Improve Outcomes for Young Fathers, Their Children & Their Families | This brief makes recommendations for child welfare system policy and practice changes that recognize the critical role young fathers can … | Practice Supports | 2017 |
| Implementing the DCF Case Practice Model (NJ) | This overview of the Implementation of the Case Practice Model highlights a six prong approach: 1) Leadership Development, 2) Statewide … | Practice Supports | 2017 |
| Open to All Voices (4 minute microlearning) | Working effectively with a variety of stakeholders impacted by a change requires a diverse set of competencies which is why … | Adaptive Leadership, Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership | 2017 |
| 7 Behaviors of Adaptive Leadership (5 minute microlearning) | This microlearning (5 minutes) explains the difference between technical and adaptive challenges, and describes the seven major behaviors identified by … | Adaptive Leadership, Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership | 2017 |
| ICWA Guide for Tribal Governments and Leaders | This guide provides recommended actions that tribal leadership can take towards ensuring compliance with the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). … | Community Engagement | 2017 |
| Resources for Healthy Generations | This document provides a list of substance abuse, child welfare, and domestic violence resources designed specifically for tribal communities. Keywords: … | Community Engagement | 2017 |
| Coaching in Child Welfare | This issue brief supports child welfare administrators, managers, and supervisors in understanding the potential role of coaching and considerations for … | Education/Professional Development | 2017 |
| Simulation in Child Welfare Training: Moving Beyond Role Play | This guide provides an overview of simulation training for child welfare workers including the costs and benefits, considerations for trainer, … | Education/Professional Development | 2017 |
| Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Racial and Ethnic Minority Youth | Practioner guide- explores and offers tips on how identities interact with each other and may produce unique challenges for youths. Some complexities … | Practice Supports | 2017 |
| Supervising from a Trauma-Informed Perspective | This 8-minute video from Texas describes the impact of trauma and provides information on supervising from a trauma-informed perspective. | Supervision | 2017 |
| CalSWEC Curriculum Competencies for Public Child Welfare in California | The Council of Social Work Education (CSWE) sets national standards for the identification and assessment of competencies in the education … | University Partnerships | 2017 |
| Decision-Making in Child Welfare for Improved Safety Outcomes | This brief details the factors that go into child welfare workers decision-making process and discusses the importance of multi-level decision-making … | Practice Supports | 2017 |
| Implementing Evidence-Based Child Welfare: The New York City experience | The goals of the preventive services Evidence-Based Model (EBM) initiative are to improve outcomes by improving family functioning and child … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2017 |
| Healthy Organizations Information Packet: How does turnover affect outcomes and what can be done to address retention? | This information packet examines the predictors and costs of turnover and strategies to support effective recruitment and retention. The packet … | Turnover | 2017 |
| Profile of the Social Work Workforce | This report uses available sources of data to present a profile of the current social work workforce defined according to … | Job Analysis and Position Requirements | 2017 |
| Strategies to Promote Research Use in Child Welfare | Policymakers, agency leaders, and practitioners need access to meaningful research evidence to ensure that the services their child welfare agencies … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2017 |
| New Social Workers: The results of the nationwide survey of 2017 Social Work graduates | This survey provides a snapshot of social workers in terms of where they come from; which jobs they find; marketplace … | Recruitment | 2017 |
| Expanding North Carolina’s Child Welfare Training Capacity | This newsletter-style publication discusses how to expand North Carolina’s training capacity through training partnerships, program improvement plans, and effective learning … | Training | 2017 |
| NASW Technology Standards | These standards are designed to guide social workers’ use of technology; enhance social workers’ awareness of their ethical responsibilities when using … | Practice Supports | 2017 |
| Do the Components of Strengths-based Supervision Enhance Child Welfare Workers’ Satisfaction with Supervision? | The purpose of this study was to evaluate the degree to which certain components of strengths-based supervision (SBS) predict higher … | Supervision | 2017 |
| Recruitment and Retention of Child Welfare Workers in Longitudinal Research | A longitudinal panel study that recruits workers at hire and follows them over time provides an opportunity to empirically examine … | Retention | 2017 |
| Satisfactions and Stressors Experienced by Recently-hired Frontline Child Welfare Workers | Many child welfare workers choose their positions due to their interest and commitment in protecting children and derive a sense … | Retention | 2017 |
| Through their Lens: Case Managers’ Experiences of the Child Welfare System | Case managers play a significant role in the child welfare system. Although previous studies have examined the multiple demands and … | Workforce Development Planning | 2017 |
| Calculating Turnover | In this video, Megan Paul, QIC-WD Workforce Team Lead, discusses how to calculate turnover in a child welfare agency. | Change Implementation, Data-Driven Decision Making, Retention, Workforce Development Planning | 2017 |
| Human Trafficking and Child Welfare: A Guide for Child Welfare Agencies | Explores how leadership in child welfare agencies can support children who are victims of human trafficking, as well as children … | Community Engagement, Practice Supports | 2017 |
| TedX: The Science of Adversity and the Case for Systemic Empathy | In this TedTalk, Dr. Stan Sonu discusses the importance of integrating an understanding of ACEs and trauma into our healthcare … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2017 |
| A New Frontier for Child Welfare in Rural North Dakota | As an MSW student at the University of North Dakota, Skye Albert received a NCWWI traineeship that sent her to … | University Partnerships | 2016 |
| Cohort Effect: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This article reports findings from an evaluation of a university-based child welfare training program focused on increasing the retention of … | University Partnerships | 2016 |
| Child Protective Services Transformation: Evaluation of CPS Professional Development | This report presents findings related to the CPS Professional Development model for new caseworkers and synthesizes findings with additional outcomes … | Education/Professional Development | 2016 |
| CFPM Training and Coaching: Best Practices and Lessons Learned | This document shares important best practices for training and coaching of a practice mode | Coaching | 2016 |
| Racial Equity Action Plans: A How-to Manual | This manual provides guidance for local governments to develop their own Racial Equity Action Plans after a period of research … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2016 |
| Racial Equity Toolkit: An Opportunity to Operationalize Equity | This racial equity tool is designed to integrate explicit consideration of racial equity in decisions, including policies, practices, programs and … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2016 |
| Racial Equity Child Welfare Data Analysis Tool State of The Science: Implicit Bias Review | This publication highlights new academic literature through the lenses of five main domain areas: criminal justice, health and health care, … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2016 |
| Racial Disproportionality and Disparity in Child Welfare | This issue brief explores the prevalence of racial disproportionality and disparity in the child welfare system and describes strategies that … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2016 |
| Tools for Thought: Using Racial Equity Impact Assessments for Effective Policymaking | This study explores assessment tools that measure the impact of proposed legislation on populations of color and are effective in … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2016 |
| Mind the Gap #9: Achieving Racial Equity through Workforce & Organizational Change | This thought-provoking, dynamic webinar helps participants understand and apply a racial equity lens to change efforts in child welfare. | Advancing Racial Equity | 2016 |
| Starting with the Numbers: The importance of data collection & analysis in system efforts to eliminate racial/ethnic disparities | This video discusses the work of Connecticut’s Department of Children and Families Statewide Racial Justice Workgroup (SRJW) to develop and … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2016 |
| Racial Justice – The Connecticut Journey: A Conversation about the Work | This PowerPoint presentation introduces Connecticut’s Department of Children and Families Statewide Racial Justice Workgroup (SRJW) Leadership and their efforts to … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2016 |
| By The Numbers: Using Disaggregated Data to Inform Policies, Practices and Decision-making | This publication is the second installment in the Race for Results case study series. It features an inside look at … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2016 |
| Why People Stay and Why They Leave (5 minute microlearning) | Our workforce is our most important resource and yet recruitment and retention continues to be an issue for many child … | Turnover | 2016 |
| Minnesota Child Welfare Workforce Stabilization Study: Child Protection Summary Report | This summary specifically focuses on the child protection workforce to better understand the state of Minnesota in order to develop … | Retention | 2016 |
| Understanding the Impact of Implicit Bias | This presentation explores the impact of implicit bias on organizational functioning, training design and delivery, and the broader organizational culture … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2016 |
| Think Politically (2.5 minute microlearning) | This microlearning (2 1/2 minutes) explains ways to think politically, one of the seven behaviors of adaptive leadership. Completing this course will help … | Adaptive Leadership, Community Engagement, Organizational Culture and Climate | 2016 |
| Giving Work Back (3.5 minute microlearning) | Heifetz and his co-authors identified seven major behaviors that can help you address challenges successfully and manage change. This microlearning … | Adaptive Leadership, Change Implementation, Communication, Organizational Culture and Climate | 2016 |
| 7 Behaviors of Adaptive Leadership (5 minute microlearning) | This microlearning (5 minutes) explains the difference between technical and adaptive challenges, and describes the seven major behaviors identified by … | Adaptive Leadership, Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership | 2016 |
| Adaptive Leadership | This course explains the difference between adaptive challenges and technical work and provides opportunities to practice applying these concepts. It … | Adaptive Leadership, Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate | 2016 |
| Regulating Distress (3 minute microlearning) | his microlearning focuses on one of the seven behaviors of adaptive leadership – regulating distress. Completing this course will develop … | Adaptive Leadership, Change Implementation, Communication, Community Engagement, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2016 |
| Orchestrating Conflict (2 minute microlearning) | Heifetz and his co-authors identified seven major behaviors that can help you address challenges successfully and manage change. This microlearning … | Adaptive Leadership, Communication, Community Engagement, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate | 2016 |
| Get on the Balcony (3 minute microlearning) | This three minute microlearning course provides strategies for “getting on the balcony” which is one of the seven behaviors of … | Adaptive Leadership, Change Implementation, Communication, Community Engagement, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate | 2016 |
| Your Guide to Holding Steady (3.5 minute microlearning) | This microlearning (3 1/2 minutes) explains ways to hold steady, one of the seven behaviors of adaptive leadership, during times … | Adaptive Leadership, Change Implementation, Communication, Community Engagement, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate | 2016 |
| Creating a Learning Culture (5.5 minute microlearning) | Helping staff grow professionally is a key workforce development strategy. This includes both a comprehensive training infrastructure and promoting a … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2016 |
| Creating a Supportive Culture (4 minute microlearning) | People are motivated to stay on the job when their basic safety and security needs are met, and when they … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2016 |
| Minnesota Child Welfare Workforce Stabilization Study: Child Protection Summary Report | This summary specifically focuses on the child protection workforce to better understand the state of Minnesota in order to develop … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2016 |
| 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 … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2016 |
| Worker Safety When There Is Domestic Violence | This webpage provides safety tips to child protection workers working with families struggling with domestic violence and face increased risk … | Worker Safety | 2016 |
| Staying Safe on the Job in Child Welfare | This brief provides new resources and explores topics such as guns in the home, safety around dogs, universal precautions, and … | Worker Safety | 2016 |
| The Dialogue: Stress Management and Self-Care | This issue seeks to promote the importance of on-the-job stress management and self-care practices. | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2016 |
| Interim Report on Staffing Recommendations for New Hampshire DCYF | This report presents preliminary findings and recommendations on staffing and training the workforce to effectively assess and respond to reports … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2016 |
| Applying Positive Psychology to the Well-Being of Child Welfare Workers: Module 3 | This webinar discusses reflective supervision, Carl Rogers, research on listening, positive communication skills, and next steps to use to improve … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2016 |
| Applying Positive Psychology to the Well-Being of Child Welfare Workers: Module 2 | This webinar focuses on gratitude, behavioral activation, positive activity scheduling, and a concrete strategy for putting these approaches to wellness … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2016 |
| Applying Positive Psychology to the Well-Being of Child Welfare Workers: Module 1 | This webinar discusses problems often found in child welfare work settings, including burnout and compassion fatigue; and possible solutions including … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2016 |
| Minnesota Child Welfare Workforce Stabilization Study: Child Protection Summary Report | This summary specifically focuses on the child protection workforce to better understand the state of Minnesota in order to develop … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2016 |
| Trust and Engagement: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This document examines the association of an organization’s diversity practices with employee engagement and explores whether a trusting climate will … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2016 |
| Positive Psychology and Well-Being of Child Welfare Workers: Three Part Series | This training focuses on the application of positive psychology in order to improve the well-being of child welfare workers. The … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2016 |
| Managing the Impact of Traumatic Stress on the Child Welfare Professional | This training course discusses how child welfare professionals can enjoy long fulfilling careers in child welfare, and how these individuals … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2016 |
| Attracting the Best (4 minute microlearning) | People feel more competent and are likely to stay when they have realistic expectations about what the job entails and … | Recruitment | 2016 |
| Selecting the Best (5 minute microlearning) | Competency-based, standardized interviewing processes provide insight into candidates’ potential “fit” with the job. Hiring procedures that minimize cumbersome processes and … | Screening and Selection | 2016 |
| From Automated to Comprehensive: What child welfare organizations need to succeed | This report provides insights into how agencies can optimally meet the key provisions of Comprehensive Child Welfare Information Systems (CCWIS) … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2016 |
| Human Resources as a Strategic Partner for Health and Human Services | This report proposes a variety of strategies for consideration by health and human service leaders in partnership with their human … | Workforce Development Planning | 2016 |
| 2015–2019 Child and Family Services Plan: New Hampshire Division for Children, Youth and Families | This report focuses on New Hampshire’s implementation of a statewide Practice Model and key goals and initiatives used to strengthen … | Change Implementation | 2016 |
| Implementation Oversight for Evidence-Based Programs: A Policymaker’s Guide to Effective Program Delivery | This brief identifies four key steps that state and local governments can take to strengthen their implementation efforts. | Change Implementation | 2016 |
| Providing Technical Assistance to Build Implementation Capacity in Child Welfare: A Manual Based on the Development, Implementation, and Assessment Approach | This document provides guidance to T/TA providers who are building the implementation capacity of child welfare organizations that use the … | Change Implementation | 2016 |
| The Benefits of Fatherhood Programs in Community-Based Organizations | This brief highlights the importance for community-based organizations (CBOs) to address needs and challenges of fathers and use evidence-based interventions … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2016 |
| Research Update: Child Welfare Agencies That Use More Research Evidence Have Higher Rates of Permanency for Children in Foster Care | This publication study shows the more often agency staff used research evidence to learn about children in their care, the … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2016 |
| The Permanency Innovations Initiative: An Example of Building Evidence in Child Welfare | This video emphasizes how the PII Approach exemplifies the four criteria of evidence-based policymaking: choose programs, invest, rigorously evaluate, and … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2016 |
| Evidence Informed Practice in Systems of Care Misconceptions and Realities, Frameworks and Funding | This webinar addresses misconceptions about evidence-based practice, how services within a system of care can select evidence based practices for … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2016 |
| Using Evidence to Accelerate the Safe and Effective Reduction of Congregate Care for Youth Involved with Child Welfare | This brief highlights a study that examined the use of residential and congregate care across the states and provides recommendations … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2016 |
| Mind the Gap #7: Real World Barriers & Strategies for Evidence-based Practice Implementation | This webinar focuses on the workforce, agency and systemic strategies that can enhance or deter success when trying to incorporate evidence-based … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2016 |
| A Framework to Design, Test, Spread, and Sustain Effective Child Welfare Practice: Develop & Test and Compare & Learn (Part 3) | This video introduces two additional phases of the framework: Develop & Test and Compare & Learn. It describes how agencies … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2016 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Building & Sustaining System Reform Efforts | This webpage includes resources that provide data, knowledge, strategies, and tools for administrators and program managers as they plan, implement, … | System Reform | 2016 |
| Child Welfare Reform – CW360 | This issue of CW360° explores the evolution of child welfare reform in the United States, introduces common catalysts for change … | System Reform | 2016 |
| Crisis and Opportunity in Delaware’s Child Welfare System | This report explains, Outcomes Matter, an initiative that boosted morale among caseworkers and gave kids and families a critical voice … | System Reform | 2016 |
| Guide to Developing, Implementing, and Assessing an Innovation | This series of documents provides guidance on the use of the Development, Implementation, and Assessment approach and includes links to … | System Reform | 2016 |
| Guide to Developing, Implementing, and Assessing an Innovation: Introduction | This document provides background information and instructions for using the Guide to Developing, Implementing, and Assessing an Innovation, along with … | System Reform | 2016 |
| Guide to Developing, Implementing, and Assessing an Innovation: Volume 1 Teaming and Communication Linkages | This document includes activities to assist with organizational elements that begin prior to the exploration stage and continue throughout the … | Communication, System Reform | 2016 |
| Guide to Developing, Implementing, and Assessing an Innovation: Volume 2 Exploration | This document includes activities that help define the target population and desired outcomes of change, create and promote buy-in for … | System Reform | 2016 |
| Guide to Developing, Implementing, and Assessing an Innovation: Volume 3 Installation | This document provides guidance for developing protocols for staff selection, training, coaching, and fidelity assessments; and describes activities that are … | System Reform | 2016 |
| Guide to Developing, Implementing, and Assessing an Innovation: Volume 4 Initial Implementation | This document provides guidance on testing critical elements and modifying components to improve innovation processes and ensure that implementation supports … | System Reform | 2016 |
| Guide to Developing, Implementing, and Assessing an Innovation: Volume 5 Full Implementation | This document includes activities that help ensure teams are in place, continuously improving and sustaining the innovation, and the environment … | System Reform | 2016 |
| Bridging Child Welfare and Education Systems | This infographic summarizes results from a statewide focus group study with Minnesota’s social service and education professionals on collaboration across … | Community Engagement | 2016 |
| Building Collaborations Across Child Welfare and Education Systems | This report describes a statewide focus group study with Minnesota’s social service and education professionals on collaboration across child welfare … | Community Engagement | 2016 |
| Engaging Parents, Developing Leaders: A Self-Assessment and Planning Tool for Nonprofits and Schools | This document introduces an assessment and planning tool to help enable nonprofit leaders to assess their organization’s family engagement and … | Community Engagement | 2016 |
| Let’s Talk about Safe Kids and Strong Families! | This report provides guidance to Alaskan communities about how they can help strengthen and support families and children, as well … | Community Engagement | 2016 |
| Preventing and Mitigating the Effects of ACEs by Building Community Capacity and Resilience: APPI Cross-Site Evaluation Findings (Final Report) | Community Engagement | 2016 | |
| Public Agencies Don’t Need to Do It Alone: Eight Reasons to Use a Partnership When Providing Support Services to Adoptive, Foster, and Kinship Care Families | This paper highlights the benefits public agencies may see from partnering with family-support organizations and other nonprofit partners. | Community Engagement | 2016 |
| The Power of Stories: Enriching Program Research & Reporting – Brief | This brief summarizes a report that explores opportunities, considerations, and methods for using storytelling to understand and communicate information about … | Community Engagement | 2016 |
| The Power of Stories: Enriching Program Research & Reporting – Full Report | This report explores opportunities, considerations, and methods for using storytelling to understand and communicate information about social service programs in … | Community Engagement | 2016 |
| Child Welfare Supervision: Coaching Conversations | This presentation explores the elements of creating a learning culture, integrating coaching into supervisory practice, and identifying strategies for successful … | Coaching | 2016 |
| Coaching in Supervision | This resource provides handouts that explore the elements of creating a learning culture, integrating coaching into supervisory practice, and identifying … | Coaching | 2016 |
| Performance Management in the Healthy Organization | This webinar clarifies the difference between constructive and destructive criticism, describes a simple formula for delivering performance feedback, identifies helpful … | Performance Management | 2016 |
| Mind the Gap #8: Prioritizing Supervision – Comprehensive Supervisory Development in Indiana | The webinar highlights a comprehensive approach to strengthening supervisory practice throughout Indiana’s Department of Child Services (DCS) and focuses on … | Supervision | 2016 |
| Supervisor Training Series: Module 1: The Preparatory and Beginning Phases of Child Welfare Supervision | This training course provides supervisors the opportunity for learning interactional skills to apply in the preliminary and beginning phases of … | Supervision | 2016 |
| Supervisor Training Series: Module 1: The Preparatory and Beginning Phases of Child Welfare Supervision | This training course provides supervisors the opportunity for learning interactional skills to apply in the preliminary and beginning phases of … | Supervision | 2016 |
| Supervisor Training Series: Module 2: Living The Mission of Child Welfare | This training course provides supervisors and managers the opportunity for learning how to define organizational mission and outcomes that are … | Supervision | 2016 |
| Supervisor Training Series: Module 3: The Middle/Work Phase of Supervision | This training course provides supervisors and managers the opportunity to learn and apply Interactional Helping Skills in the Middle/Work phase … | Supervision | 2016 |
| Supervisor Training Series: Module 4: Managing Diversity Through the Employment Process | This workshop will address development of culturally proficient organizations, communication, and ongoing diversity plans, emphasizing the need for strength-based engagement … | Supervision | 2016 |
| Supervisor Training Series: Module 5: Endings and Transitions: Managing Staff Retention, Satisfaction and Separation | This training course provides supervisors the opportunity to explore strategies to manage endings and transitions ethically and respectfully; examine a … | Supervision | 2016 |
| At Intersection of Trauma and Disabilities: A New Toolkit for Providers | This document introduces a training toolkit that provides an overview for providers on how to work with children and families … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2016 |
| Secondary Traumatic Stress in Child Welfare Practice: Trauma-Informed Guidelines for Organizations | This document is designed to assist the leadership of child welfare agencies and other child- and family-serving organizations in supporting … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2016 |
| Secondary Traumatic Stress Podcast | This podcast discusses and provides examples about how to help child welfare professionals cope with secondary traumatic stress. | Trauma-informed Practice | 2016 |
| Understanding Child Trauma | This document is an informative infographic for recognizing the signs of child traumatic stress. | Trauma-informed Practice | 2016 |
| Key Ingredients for Successful Trauma-Informed Care Implementation | This brief outlines a practical implementation framework and policy considerations for instituting trauma-informed approaches to care in health care settings. | Trauma-informed Practice | 2016 |
| Mind the Gap #6: Becoming a Trauma-informed Child Welfare Agency – The Waupaca County Journey | This webinar presentation provides participants with ideas and strategies related to implementing Trauma Informed Care and Civility in their agencies. Waupaca DHHS’s … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2016 |
| Caseload and Workload Management | This information brief provides State child welfare managers with an overview of the benefits of caseload and workload management, catalysts … | Workload | 2016 |
| Cost Savings from Reasonable Child Welfare Workloads | This document summarizes evidence that reasonable caseloads and workloads will keep more child welfare workers on the job, leading to … | Workload | 2016 |
| CFPM Training and Coaching: Best Practices and Lessons Learned | This document shares important best practices for training and coaching of a practice model. | Coaching | 2016 |
| A Primer on Title IV-E Funding for Child Welfare | The document explains how states use Title IV-E of the Social Security Act, the largest federal funding stream for child … | Practice Supports | 2016 |
| ICWA Quick Reference Guide – Involuntary Proceedings | This reference guide on the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, 25 U.S.C. §§ 1901-63; ICWA Proceedings Final Rule, 25 … | Practice Supports | 2016 |
| Ten Conversations Leaders Use to Move Results Forward | This video describes ten conversations that results-based leaders can use to achieve results and move to higher action and higher … | Leadership | 2016 |
| Understanding Job Requirements (3.5 minute microlearning) | Understanding Job Requirements | Performance Management | 2016 |
| Data Strategies: Measuring Racial Disparities in Child Welfare | This webinar helps agency leaders, managers and data staff identify at which decision points children of different races experience inequitable … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2016 |
| Understanding the Impact of Implicit Bias | This presentation explores the impact of implicit bias on organizational functioning, training design and delivery, and the broader organizational culture … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2016 |
| Managing the Impact of Traumatic Stress on the Child Welfare Professional | This training course discusses how child welfare professionals can enjoy long fulfilling careers in child welfare, and how these individuals … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2016 |
| Child and Family Services Review (CFSR) E-Training Platform | This online training is designed to provide state review teams, partners, and stakeholders with information relevant to the onsite reviews … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2016 |
| Child and Family Services Review (CFSR) Round 3 Resources | This webpage offers the resources on Round 3 of the CFSRs for states participating in the process. | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2016 |
| Child Welfare Outcomes 2010-2013 Report to Congress | This report to Congress provides information on the performance of states in seven outcome categories and also includes data on … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2016 |
| Child Welfare Outcomes 2010–2013: Report to Congress Executive Summary | This document summarizes the Child Welfare Outcomes 2010–2013 Report to Congress which provides information on the performance of states in seven … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2016 |
| Considering Outcomes in the Children’s System of Care | This brief serves as a primer for programs and agencies that are considering initiating work towards the measurement and management … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2016 |
| Data Strategies: Measuring Racial Disparities in Child Welfare | This webinar helps agency leaders, managers and data staff identify at which decision points children of different races experience inequitable … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2016 |
| Foster Conversations about Results With Data Walks | This video demonstrates how you can rely on data walks to get stakeholders to work together to assess and improve … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2016 |
| Minnesota Child Welfare Workforce Stabilization Study: Child Protection Summary Report | This summary specifically focuses on the child protection workforce to better understand the state of Minnesota in order to develop … | Workforce Development Planning | 2016 |
| New York State Department of Civil Services: Workforce & Succession Planning | This webpage provides State agencies with guidance and a forum to share information on Workforce and Succession Planning. | Workforce Development Planning | 2016 |
| NJ DCF Workforce Report: A Commitment to Child Welfare Excellence through Comprehensive Workforce & Leadership Development | This report provides an in-depth review of key indicators of performance and related strategies that reflect the New Jersey Department … | Workforce Development Planning | 2016 |
| Preparing for Tomorrow’s State and Local Government Workforce | This eBook looks at how state and local governments across the country are using innovative practices to recruit, develop, and … | Workforce Development Planning | 2016 |
| Quality Assurance Review of the Division of Children, Youth and Families: New Hampshire Department of Children, Youth and Families | This report examines how well laws, policies, and practices protect children who come to the attention of the New Hampshire’s … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2016 |
| Quality Assurance Review of the Division of Children, Youth and Families: New Hampshire Department of Children, Youth and Families | This report examines how well laws, policies, and practices protect children who come to the attention of the New Hampshire’s … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2016 |
| The Quality Services Review Process | This training course provides an overview of the Quality Service Review (QSR) process, the QSR Protocol, and the responsibilities of … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2016 |
| Tracking and Using Implementation and Outcome Data (W/Tip Sheet) | This document shares important best practices in building capacity to track and use data for practice model decision making. | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2016 |
| Using Child Welfare Administrative Data in the Permanency Innovations Initiative Evaluation | This brief discusses the use of administrative data in the Permanency Innovations Initiative (PII) evaluation. The brief begins by defining … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2016 |
| Why the Workforce Matters Infographic | This infographic visually describes why the workforce matters. It includes information on the challenges of child welfare work, the cost … | Workforce Development Planning | 2016 |
| Regulating Distress (3 minute microlearning) | This microlearning focuses on one of the seven behaviors of adaptive leadership – regulating distress. Completing this course will develop … | Adaptive Leadership, Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership | 2016 |
| Orchestrating Conflict (2 minute microlearning) | Heifetz and his co-authors identified seven major behaviors that can help you address challenges successfully and manage change. This microlearning … | Adaptive Leadership, Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership | 2016 |
| Get on the Balcony (3 minute microlearning) | This three minute microlearning course provides strategies for “getting on the balcony” which is one of the seven behaviors of … | Adaptive Leadership, Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership | 2016 |
| CFPM Training and Coaching: Best Practices and Lessons Learned | This document shares important best practices for training and coaching of a practice model. | Education/Professional Development | 2016 |
| Understanding Job Requirements (3.5 minute microlearning) | Clear information about the job requirements is a fundamental building block in implementing a workforce development system. This interactive 3.5 … | Education/Professional Development | 2016 |
| 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, … | Education/Professional Development | 2016 |
| America Needs All of Us | This tool provides practical messaging tools and strategies that address people’s fears, anxieties, and prejudices head on. In that way, … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2016 |
| 2016 State Roundtable Report: Caseworker Retention Workgroup (Pennsylvania) | This report explores the data and impact of retention and turnover of Pennsylvania’s child welfare caseworkers. Also included in the … | Turnover | 2016 |
| Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) Toolkit (California) | The ICWA Toolkit provides a structured compendium of resources designed to assist county administrators and staff to implement culturally appropriate … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2016 |
| Worker Safety Literature Review | This report is designed to review protocols and procedures for ensuring workplace safety in health and human service agencies. The … | Worker Safety | 2016 |
| What’s SHARING POWER Got to Do with Trauma-Informed Practice? | Encourages providers to share power in the context of trauma-responsive practice. This fact sheet describes what sharing power is, how … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2016 |
| Self-Healing Communities | This article by RWJF describes how addressing problems that a community is facing collectively rather than as stand-alone issues is … | Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, Family-Centered Practice, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Practice Models, Practice Supports | 2016 |
| CalSWEC Title IV-E Program Final Report | This document provides statistics about the students graduating from the 22nd cohort from CalSWEC’s Title IV-E Stipend program, tracking students … | University Partnerships | 2015 |
| Transforming MSW field learning: Evidence-based practice and implementation science | This webinar presents practical examples of how MSW programs can adjust field curricula to ensure that evidence-based practice and implementation … | University Partnerships | 2015 |
| 10 Secrets to Amazing Curriculum | The document provides ten tips for preparing and delivering effective trainings. | Training | 2015 |
| Trainer Competencies (Ohio) | This document is Ohio’s comprehensive listing of all the knowledge and skills required for child welfare staff to do their … | Training | 2015 |
| Advancing Racial Equity and Transforming Government: A Resource Guide to Put Ideas into Action | This guide provides information on six strategies for advancing racial equity and government transformation and shares the stories and lessons … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2015 |
| Defusing Hate: A Strategic Communication Guide to Counteract Dangerous Speech | This tool describes strategic communication to prevent dangerous speech from facilitating group-targeted violence | Communication, Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness | 2015 |
| Partnering with Latino and Immigrant Families: Resources and Suggestions for Child Welfare Professionals | This guide shares background information, resources, and suggestions to help you achieve safety, permanence, and well-being for Latino and immigrant … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2015 |
| Standards and Indicators for Cultural Competence in Social Work Practice | This document provides guidance on the implementation and realization of culturally competent practice. | Cultural Responsiveness | 2015 |
| Courageous Conversations about Race | This webinar presentation describes four steps: notice, engage, understand, and empathize of having courageous conversations about race. | Cultural Responsiveness | 2015 |
| The Institutional Analysis: Uncovering Pathways to Improving Public Systems & Interventions for Children and Families | This paper describes an approach, known as an Institutional Analysis (IA), is to identify organizational structures such as policies, administrative … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2015 |
| Fresno County Department of Social Services: Confronting Racial Inequities and Disproportionality to Improve Child Welfare Outcomes for Children & Families | This case study details Fresno County’s efforts to address racial inequities and improve outcomes for all children and youth involved … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2015 |
| Racial Equity Training: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This document summarizes a study that examines participant knowledge and attitudes about race, engagement in racial equity work, and organizational … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2015 |
| It’s Time to Talk: how to start conversations about racial inequities | This report tells how KIDS COUNT advocates in Nebraska, Wisconsin and Washington used solid data, leadership and citizen engagement to … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2015 |
| Foster Care: HHS Needs to Improve the Consistency and Timeliness of Assistance to Tribes | This report examines (1) obstacles facing tribes interested in directly operating a Title IV-E program and (2) the assistance HHS … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2015 |
| Resources for Promoting Self-Awareness | This document provides resources are intended to be a starting point for evaluators to begin developing higher a sense of … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2015 |
| Social Workers Moving Beyond Neutrality: Confronting Racial Injustice Conference | This four part video features a day-long conference that focuses on racial disparities in education and the criminal justice system, … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2015 |
| Disproportionality Rates for Children of Color in Foster Care: Technical Assistance Bulletin (2013) | This Bulletin, released June 2015, utilizes (2013) Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) data and 2013 census … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2015 |
| Strategies to Reduce Racially Disparate Outcomes in Child Welfare | This paper documents the efforts underway in 12 states and localities to tackle the enduring problem of African American, Native … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2015 |
| Culturally Responsive Child Welfare Practice – CW360 | This issue explores cultural responsiveness and concepts related to culturally informed practice, features an expanded practice section focusing on innovative, … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2015 |
| Culturally Responsive Child Welfare Practice – CW360 Integrated Bibliography | This bibliography offers an extensive list of resources dealing with Cultural Responsive Child Welfare Practice. | Cultural Responsiveness | 2015 |
| Resilience and Burnout: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This document summarizes a journal article that highlights retention and turnover issues in child welfare through a comprehensive literature review of … | Burnout | 2015 |
| Modification to Sunset Issue 2 on the Department of Family and Protective Services (TX) | This report highlights the changes and recommendations proposed by the CPS Operational Review and Sunset Commission to address the issues … | Turnover | 2015 |
| Creating an Inclusive Team Culture (6.5 minute microlearning) | People need to work in a culture and climate where they feel valued and part of a team committed to a common … | Vision, Mission, and Values | 2015 |
| Championing the Role of Child Welfare Professionals | This document provides strategies for improving workforce satisfaction and retention by proactively championing the difference that child welfare professionals make … | Communication, Organizational Culture and Climate | 2015 |
| 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 … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2015 |
| Teaming in Child Welfare: A Guidebook | This guide outlines the processes and steps involved implementing teaming, explains why they matter, makes recommendations regarding the dos and … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2015 |
| Personal Safety for the DCF Professional | This chart provides important safety tips for different professional settings. | Worker Safety | 2015 |
| The Four A’s of Safety: Safety Awareness for the Child Welfare Professional | This chart provides examples of questions to ask related to the important elements of safety. | Worker Safety | 2015 |
| Letters From The Heart … A Thank You to Our Family Service Specialists (NJ) | This video features thank you letters from families and children written to New Jersey Family Service Specialists. | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2015 |
| Safety Awareness For the Child Welfare Professional – Participant Guide (NJ) | This training is designed to provide participants with information to increase knowledge of safety-related issues in child welfare practice and … | Worker Safety | 2015 |
| Supervisor Checklist: Safety for Direct Services Staff (OH) | This document provides a list of Items to periodically review, at regular intervals or when a safety incident warrants immediate … | Worker Safety | 2015 |
| Guidelines for Preventing Workplace Violence for Healthcare and Social Service Workers | The publication includes industry best practices and highlights the most effective ways to reduce the risk of violence in various … | Worker Safety | 2015 |
| What Child Welfare Caseworkers Need To Go Mobile | This paper examines the ways in which mobile access to case management systems, data and information, assessment and referral capabilities … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2015 |
| Reducing Stress in the Workplace: Exercises for Social Workers | This video a fitness specialist provides a series of brief exercises that can be completed in and around the workplace … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2015 |
| Fostering Perspectives – Self Care | This issue shares perspectives and reflections from foster parents and others, and points readers to self-care ideas and resources. | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2015 |
| Teaming in Child Welfare: A Guidebook | This guide outlines the processes and steps involved implementing teaming, explains why they matter, makes recommendations regarding the dos and … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2015 |
| Tips for Recruiting a Post-boomer Workforce | This document provides some tips and best practices for a smarter, more budget friendly approach to recruiting Millennials and filling … | Recruitment | 2015 |
| Mind the Gap #3: Children’s Corps: A Dynamic Approach to Child Welfare Worker Recruitment, Screening and Selection | This webinar provides an overview of Children’s Corps’ dynamic recruitment, screening and selection techniques to strengthen the capacity of the … | Recruitment, Screening and Selection | 2015 |
| Learning from Practice: Evaluation and Improvement Science Syllabus | This guide focuses on the development and use of the program logic model, and provides an orientation to the underlying … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2015 |
| The Permanency Innovations Initiative Approach to Evaluation | This brief describes the overall evaluation approach, including an explanation of the evaluation framework and a description of both pre-evaluation … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2015 |
| Building Capacity to Manage Change and Improve Child Welfare Practice | This paper describes the Child Welfare Capacity Building Collaborative’s evidence-informed approach to the change and implementation process. This process has … | Change Implementation | 2015 |
| Framing Program Evaluation: Tinkering With Theories of Change and Logic Models | This article explores how three organizations developed their program’s theory of change and logic model. | Change Implementation | 2015 |
| Governor’s Task Force on the Protection of Children Final Report and Recommendations (MN) | This report advise the governor and legislature on system and practice improvements in the child protection system at all levels … | Workforce Development Planning | 2015 |
| Findings and Resources from an Evaluation of Training and Technical Assistance | This webpage summarizes a five year evaluation of two groups of Training and Technical Assistance providers –regional Child Welfare Implementation … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2015 |
| Selecting and Implementing Evidence-Based Practices: A Guide for Child and Family Serving Systems | This guide provides information and examples of implementation relevant to those working with children and families in the child welfare … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2015 |
| Learning What Works: A Guide to Opportunistic Experiments for Human Services Agencies | This guide introduces human services program operators to randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and provides guidance on how to conduct them. … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2015 |
| Implementing Evidence-Based Practices | This document describes key implementation challenges of evidence-based programs and presents research-based strategies that can be used to facilitate sound … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2015 |
| Advancing Evidence-Based Decision Making: A Toolkit on Recognizing and Conducting Opportunistic Experiments in the Family Self-Sufficiency and Stability Policy Area | This report describes in detail how researchers, policymakers, and program administrators can recognize opportunities for experiments and carry them out; … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2015 |
| Transforming MSW field learning: Evidence-based practice and implementation science | This webinar presents practical examples of how MSW programs can adjust field curricula to ensure that evidence-based practice and implementation … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2015 |
| How to Scale Up Effective Programs Serving Children, Youth, and Families | This brief reviews the best practices for scale up of effective programs from across the literature and describes the experiences … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2015 |
| Finding the Fit: Evidence-Based Practice in MSW Curricula | This webinar is based upon Janus webinar series participants’ comments, questions and requests, course syllabi and strategies employed in bringing … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2015 |
| Integrating Evidence Based Practice in MSW Curricula | This webinar reviews the various ways graduate programs have integrated teaching evidence–based practice, as well as implementation science and frameworks … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2015 |
| Evidence Based Practice in MSW Curricula: Misconceptions and Facts | This webinar introduces the Consortium and the Janus Webinar Series, presents findings from of evidence-based practice preparedness and workforce development, … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2015 |
| Evidence Based Practices in North American MSW Curricula | This study examines the extent to which EBPs are taught in North American Masters of Social Work (MSW curricula). Results … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2015 |
| How to Scale Up Effective Programs Serving Children, Youth, and Families | This brief reviews the best practices for scale up of effective programs from across the literature and describes the experiences … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2015 |
| A Framework to Design, Test, Spread, and Sustain Effective Child Welfare Practice: Replicate & Adapt and Apply & Improve (Part 4) | This video describes the Replicate & Adapt and Apply & Improve phases of the framework, explains how agencies can apply … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2015 |
| Findings and Resources from an Evaluation of Training and Technical Assistance | This webpage summarizes a five year evaluation of two groups of Training and Technical Assistance providers –regional Child Welfare Implementation … | System Reform | 2015 |
| Georgia Child Welfare Reform Council Final Report to the Governor | This report contains the Child Welfare Reform Council recommendations for how to reform Georgia’s child welfare system in order to … | System Reform | 2015 |
| Governor’s Task Force on the Protection of Children Final Report and Recommendations (MN) | This report advise the governor and legislature on system and practice improvements in the child protection system at all levels … | System Reform | 2015 |
| Modification to Sunset Issue 2 on the Department of Family and Protective Services (TX) | This report highlights the changes and recommendations proposed by the CPS Operational Review and Sunset Commission to address the issues … | System Reform | 2015 |
| Sunset Advisory Commission: Staff Report with Final Results | This report summarizes the actions taken by the Sunset Commission and the Texas’ 84th Legislature after a two year review … | System Reform | 2015 |
| Supporting Change in Child Welfare: An Evaluation of Training and Technical Assistance | This report presents the key findings and primary implications of an evaluation of Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA) delivery and … | System Reform | 2015 |
| The Development, Implementation, and Assessment Approach | This document describes an approach which delivers best practices in implementation science, helping public, private, and Tribal child welfare organizations … | System Reform | 2015 |
| Toolkit for Expanding the System of Care Approach | This toolkit provides resources that guide work to expand and sustain systems of care throughout states, tribes, territories, and communities. … | System Reform | 2015 |
| Attending to Neglect: Using Metaphors and Explanatory Chains to Reframe Child Neglect in the UK | This report increases the public understanding of the causes of neglect by explaining the role of social determinants, as well … | Community Engagement | 2015 |
| Building Community, Building Hope | This video highlights three innovative programs working to prevent and respond to child maltreatment by engaging parents and communities and … | Community Engagement | 2015 |
| Building Cross-System Implementation Centers | This report defines and explores the concept of Centers of Excellence after a learning community of experts tackled key questions: … | Community Engagement | 2015 |
| Family Leadership Self-assessment Tool for System-building Collaboratives | This tool is to help multi-agency collaborative system-building initiatives to assess whether they are supporting giving family members, such as … | Community Engagement | 2015 |
| Making the Public Case for Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention | This memorandum synthesizes research findings and recommends strategies to communicate more effectively about child abuse and neglect. | Community Engagement | 2015 |
| Parent Leadership Agency Self-assessment Tool | This tool helps agencies and organizations assess whether they are giving parents opportunities to develop and exercise leadership skills. | Community Engagement | 2015 |
| Policy and Community Level Strategies for Integrating Children’s Behavioral Health Services | This brief explains Connecticut Network of Care Transformation (CONNECT) and an approach of integrated statewide network of care that ensures … | Community Engagement | 2015 |
| What Type of Community Is Your Organization Creating? (Self-Assessment) | This assessment measures how well an organization is promoting community engagement and creating social capital. It provides six key domains … | Community Engagement | 2015 |
| Strength-Based Solution-Focused Supervision Support Session | This support session helps supervisors apply what they learned during the Strength-Based Solution-Focused Supervision training. Materials include a facilitator’s guide and … | Supervision | 2015 |
| Strength-Based, Solution-Focused Supervision | This training course provides child welfare supervisors with a theoretical framework and useful strategies for incorporating strength-based, solution-focused concepts and … | Supervision | 2015 |
| Supporting Supervisors in Using Critical Thinking Skills | This training course explores the child welfare leaders’ role in supporting child welfare supervisors’ use of critical thinking skills with their … | Supervision | 2015 |
| Supporting Supervisors in Using Critical Thinking Skills: Support Session | This training course is a follow up to “Supporting Supervisors in Using Critical Thinking Skills”, and assists staff in incorporating … | Supervision | 2015 |
| Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Public-Private Initiative Cross-Site Evaluation: Interim Report | This report shows that local community networks in Washington State were more successful in addressing ACEs and toxic stress and … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2015 |
| Going Beyond Trauma Informed Care (TIC) Training for Child Welfare Supervisors and Frontline Workers: The Need for System Wide Policy Changes Implementing TIC practices in all Child Welfare Agencies | This article reviews efforts to train child welfare workers in trauma informed practices and concludes that systemic change occurs by … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2015 |
| Introduction to the Trauma-Informed Approach | This training course explores the roles and responsibilities of organizations in helping staff to manage traumatic stress, and how to … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2015 |
| Building a Trauma-Informed Culture in Child Welfare | This training course explores the roles and responsibilities of organizations in helping staff to manage traumatic stress, and discusses trauma-informed … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2015 |
| New Jersey: Trauma-informed Child Welfare System | This report highlights a self-assessment sought to help New Jersey’s Division of Child Protection and Permanency (CP&P) become a more … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2015 |
| Harnessing the Learning Community Model to Integrate Trauma-Informed Care Principles in Service Organizations | The report defines trauma, discusses its prevalence and effect on individuals, and examines implications for service systems. The report also … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2015 |
| Workforce and Organizational Stress: Implications for Trauma Informed Care | This PowerPoint presentation is geared toward individuals who have an understanding about the impact of trauma on clients and families … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2015 |
| Supporting Youth in Foster Care in Making Healthy Choices: A Guide for Caregivers and Caseworkers on Trauma, Treatment, and Psychotropic Medications | This guide intended to help caseworkers, foster parents, or other caring adults learn about trauma experienced by youth in foster … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2015 |
| Developing a Trauma-Informed Child Welfare System | This issue brief discusses the steps that may be necessary to create a child welfare system that is more sensitive … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2015 |
| Indiana DCS Caseload and Workload Analysis | This paper provides a prioritized roadmap and profile of each recommended option that Indiana Department of Child Services (DCS) should … | Workload | 2015 |
| What Child Welfare Caseworkers Need To Go Mobile | This paper examines the ways in which mobile access to case management systems, data and information, assessment and referral capabilities … | Workload | 2015 |
| Workforce and Outsourcing Issues Key to Reducing Fatalities: Comments for the CECANF | This document addresses outsourcing, caseloads and workloads, professional development, and workplace safety issues as key to reducing fatalities; and provides … | Workload | 2015 |
| An Experiment That Has Failed: Privatization of Child Welfare in Nebraska | This 2-page article critiques the statewide child welfare privatization initiative that was launched in Nebraska, concluding that the private system … | Practice Supports | 2015 |
| Family Meeting Facilitator Training | As part of Family Connections Oregon, this training curriculum was developed to teach the theoretical foundations, applications and facilitation skills … | Family-Centered Practice | 2015 |
| Supporting Meaningful Family Engagement (Part 2) | This video features the second part of a workshop on Meaningful Family Engagement, covering the ‘how to’ of family engagement … | Family-Centered Practice | 2015 |
| Supporting Meaningful Family Engagement (Part 1) | This video features the first part of a workshop on meaningful visitation, family engagement, and dealing with siblings- particularity siblings … | Family-Centered Practice | 2015 |
| Effective Leadership for Tribal Child Welfare | This guide provides some basic information on how to establish effective tribal governance and the role of tribal leadership in … | Leadership | 2015 |
| Teaming for Success: Planning and Facilitating Effective Team Meetings | This training course provides effective strategies for facilitators to employ before, during, and after meetings that will improve participation and … | Leadership | 2015 |
| Teaming for Success: Leading Teaming | This training course focuses on techniques to build a teaming culture both inside an agency and with outside system partners, … | Leadership | 2015 |
| The Dawn of Systems Leadership | This article describes key skills and tools used by system leaders, those who catalyze collective leadership to address difficult problems … | Leadership | 2015 |
| Annual Performance Appraisal for Family and Children’s Services Case Carrying and Non Case Carrying Supervisors (San Francisco) | This form was developed as a tool for formal performance evaluation for case carrying and non-case carrying supervisors, and designed … | Performance Management | 2015 |
| Annual Performance Appraisal for Family and Children’s Services Case Carrying Protective Services Workers (San Francisco) | Performance Management | 2015 | |
| Human Services Management Competencies Guidebook | This guidebook is designed as professional development tool that allows individuals to gauge their current skill-set and to garner feedback … | Performance Management | 2015 |
| Performance Anchors for Case Carrying Protective Services Worker in Family and Children’s Services (San Francisco) | This document incorporates Child Welfare Core Practice behaviors into performance indicators within levels of proficiency based on staff tenure. These … | Performance Management | 2015 |
| Performance Anchors for Case Carrying Supervisor in Family and Children’s Services (San Francisco) | This document incorporates Child Welfare Core Practice behaviors into performance indicators within levels of proficiency based on supervisor’s tenure. These … | Performance Management | 2015 |
| Performance Anchors for Non-Case Carrying Protective Services Worker in Family and Children’s Services (San Francisco) | This document incorporates Child Welfare Core Practice behaviors into performance indicators within levels of proficiency based on staff tenure. These … | Performance Management | 2015 |
| Performance Anchors Non-Case Carrying Supervisor in Family and Children’s Services (San Francisco) | This document incorporates Child Welfare Core Practice behaviors into performance indicators within levels of proficiency based on supervisor’s tenure. These … | Performance Management | 2015 |
| Texas Child Protective Services Specialist Competencies | This graph outlines practice competencies for those working in child protective services. | Performance Management | 2015 |
| 10 Practices: A Child Welfare Leader’s Desk Guide to Building a High-Performing Agency | This two-part guide presents (1) targeted information on 10 practices, including 10 outcomes and 15 measures that are arguably the … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2015 |
| Applying Predictive Analytics to Child Welfare | This module discuss how predictive analytics might inform, assist, and improve decision making in child protection. | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2015 |
| Being a Good Consumer of Predictive Analytics in Child Protection | This webinar discusses what questions organizations considering predictive analytics should be asking–both of themselves and of researchers. | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2015 |
| Child Protective Investigator and Child Protective Investigator Supervisor Educational Qualifications, Turnover, and Working Conditions Status Report: Annual Report (Florida) | This report provides a status on educational qualifications, turnover rates, and working conditions for the Department’s child protective investigators, child … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2015 |
| Get the Data, Share the Data, Use the Data | This report summarizes the importance of data gathering, sharing and use between child welfare and education systems across three states: … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2015 |
| Harnessing Big Data for Social Good: A Grand Challenge for Social Work | This paper focuses on the potential of big data and data science to produce novel types of information to inform … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2015 |
| Levels of Research Evidence and Benefit-Cost Data for Title IV-E Waiver Interventions | This research brief describes the Title IV-E demonstration interventions used by the complete set of Title IV-E Waiver states and … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2015 |
| Measuring Child Welfare Outcomes: A Compendium of Standardized Instruments | This document serves as a compendium of common child-, caregiver-, family-, and organization-level instruments that have been used by discretionary … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2015 |
| Mind the Gap #5: Transforming Child Welfare Decision-making through Modern Technology & Data Analytics | This webinar explores how child welfare organizations can leverage modern technology, data and information to support and transform frontline child … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2015 |
| New Jersey DCF Workforce: Preliminary Highlights 2014-2015 | This report summarizes the demographics and characteristics of the current child welfare workforce and highlights a variety of indicators of … | Workforce Development Planning | 2015 |
| Predictive Analytics and Child Protection: Constraints and Opportunities | This webinar discusses increasing efforts to leverage predictive analytics for better decision making in child protection. It reviews past experiences, … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2015 |
| Three Examples of Predictive Analytics in Child Protection | This webinar discusses how predictive analytics operates in the real world and the implications it has for child protective services. … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2015 |
| Using Data to Measure Performance: A new framework for assessing the effectiveness of home visiting | This report provides information to support state and local managers in collecting, analyzing, and using data to gain a clear … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2015 |
| Workforce and Outsourcing Issues Key to Reducing Fatalities: Comments for the CECANF | This document addresses outsourcing, caseloads and workloads, professional development, and workplace safety issues as key to reducing fatalities; and provides … | Workforce Development Planning | 2015 |
| States’ Consultation and Collaboration with Tribes and Reported Compliance with the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) | This report is a summary of the information states provided in their 2015–2019 Child and Family Services Plan’s (CFSP) in … | Community Engagement | 2015 |
| Texas Child Protective Services Specialist Competencies | This graph outlines practice competencies for those working in child protective services. | Education/Professional Development | 2015 |
| Annual Performance Appraisal for Family and Children’s Services Case Carrying and Non Case Carrying Supervisors (San Francisco) | This form was developed as a tool for formal performance evaluation for case carrying and non-case carrying supervisors, and designed … | Education/Professional Development | 2015 |
| 10 Secrets to Amazing Curriculum | The document provides ten tips for preparing and delivering effective trainings. | Education/Professional Development | 2015 |
| Mind the Gap #2: Simulation Labs for Child Welfare Education and Training | This webinar provides an overview of developing a Simulation Lab, an innovative technique being utilized with newly-hired children’s services social … | Education/Professional Development, Training | 2015 |
| Trainer Competencies (Ohio) | This document is Ohio’s comprehensive listing of all the knowledge and skills required for child welfare staff to do their … | Education/Professional Development | 2015 |
| CalSWEC Title IV-E Program Final Report | This document provides statistics about the students graduating from the 22nd cohort from CalSWEC’s Title IV-E Stipend program, tracking students … | Education/Professional Development | 2015 |
| Transforming MSW field learning: Evidence-based practice and implementation science | This webinar presents practical examples of how MSW programs can adjust field curricula to ensure that evidence-based practice and implementation … | Education/Professional Development | 2015 |
| Supervising for Quality Child Welfare Practice | This bulletin presents an overview of child welfare supervision and explores the dimensions of supervision that agencies may want to … | Supervision | 2015 |
| Staff Performance and Retention: Using a Trauma Lens | Secondary traumatic stress (STS) can have a significant impact on child welfare professionals, their agencies, and ultimately on outcomes for … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2015 |
| Creating and Sustaining Effective & Outcome-Oriented Child Welfare University-Agency Research Partnerships | This brief provides guidance on research-based principles to guide effective partnerships between social work education programs and child welfare agencies … | University Partnerships | 2014 |
| CASCW Video Wall | This website explores various issues surrounding child welfare, posing questions and offering a forum for those working on these issues … | Education/Professional Development | 2014 |
| Bilingual Traineeship Program: Legacies & Lessons Learned | This 10-page document offers lessons learned from a traineeship project (implemented through the New Mexico State University’s School of Social … | University Partnerships | 2014 |
| Coaching in the Field of Child Welfare Toolkit | This toolkit guides the development and implementation of formal, professional coaching within the child welfare context; presents many examples and … | Coaching | 2014 |
| UC-Davis: Coaching in Human Services | This website for coaching in human services provides access to information on how to learn and utilize several coaching skills, … | Coaching | 2014 |
| Race for Results: Building a Path to Opportunity for All Children | This report explores the intersection of kids, race and opportunity. The report features the new Race for Results Index, which … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2014 |
| Race Equity and Inclusion Action Guide: 7 Steps to Advance and Embed Race Equity and Inclusion within Your Organization | This guide provides a clear framework to incorporate race equity and inclusion at every stage of work by foundations or … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2014 |
| The Challenge of Sustaining Cultural and Linguistic Competence | This paper provides effective and creative strategies for sustaining cultural and linguistic competence efforts and examples of inclusive strategic planning … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2014 |
| Resources for Child Welfare Professionals Working with Families from Refugee Backgrounds | This guide provides information and resources to assist child welfare workers in providing culturally responsive, appropriate services to meet the … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2014 |
| Achieving Racial Equity: Calling the Social Work Profession to Action Brief | This brief highlights the strategic actions and targeted recommendations developed during the symposium, Achieving Racial Equity: Calling the Social Work … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2014 |
| Achieving Racial Equity: Calling the Social Work Profession to Action | This report includes summaries of all of the presentations, recommendations, and biographies of the speakers at the symposium, Achieving Racial … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2014 |
| Race for Results: Wisconsin’s Need to Reduce Racial Disparities | This is a corresponding publication to the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s “Race for Results” report and highlights the pressing need … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2014 |
| Cultural Humility and Management in Child Welfare | This webinar discusses culture, multiculturalism, intersectionality and how cultural humility connects to cultural competence and contributes to cultural responsiveness. It … | Communication, Cultural Responsiveness | 2014 |
| Tribal and Non-tribal Agencies: A Comparison of how Social Work with Families is Conceptualized in the US | This article explores how the definitions of family impact the provision of services; addresses issues surrounding domestic violence, teen pregnancy, … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2014 |
| A Better Way to Do Business: Changing Organizational Culture to Promote Integrated Service Delivery in Child Protection and Juvenile Justice Systems | The brief describes how a human service agency can move from early conversations about working together to developing protocols for … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2014 |
| Comprehensive Organizational Health Assessment (COHA): Overview | This tool helps agencies identify workforce strengths and gaps impacting overall functioning of the organization and can be used as … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2014 |
| Comprehensive Organizational Health Assessment (COHA): Summary of Measures | This document list the measures used Comprehensive Organizational Health Assessment | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2014 |
| Diversity Is Useless Without Inclusivity | This article discusses the four dynamics that frequently work against inclusiveness in many organizations: (1) people gravitate toward people like … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2014 |
| Design Team Manual | This manual provides information about how to implement Design Teams, the rationale and research on Design Teams, example documents related … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2014 |
| Taking Responsibility for Solutions: Using Values to Reframe Child Maltreatment in the UK | This report details the results of an experimental survey that explores the extent to which values-based messages and narratives affect … | Vision, Mission, and Values | 2014 |
| Home Visitor Safety Guide (OR) | This guide establishes a basic set of standards that home visiting programs can use to ensure the safety of their … | Worker Safety | 2014 |
| Child Welfare Education & Training Partnership New Worker Safety Trainer Manual (IN) | This curriculum provides new Family Case Managers information on risk management and safety awareness, teaches staff to recognize unsafe situations … | Worker Safety | 2014 |
| Workplace safety: Policy Recommendations | This webpage provided by NASW-MA Chapter, offers policy recommendations and resources to reduce risk to clients, direct service staff, management … | Worker Safety | 2014 |
| Secondary Trauma and Child Welfare Staff: Guidance for Supervisors and Administrators | This fact sheet provides information on how secondary traumatic stress (STS) manifests itself in child welfare, the kinds of staff … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2014 |
| Beyond Quick Fixes: Caseworkers are First-Responders, They Deserve the Same Professionalization as Other Essential Personnel | This document features a series of articles regarding the status of child protection services in the United States and proposals … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2014 |
| Social Worker Self-Care — The Overlooked Core Competency | This article emphasizes the importance of self-care among social workers and provides information and links to resources and tools for … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2014 |
| A Guide to the Implementation Process: Stages, Steps & Activities | This guide is based on a review of the literature of implementation science and the collective experiences of federally funded … | Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership | 2014 |
| Engaging Clients from a Strengths-Based, Solution-Focused Perspective: Caseworker Support Session | This training course is a follow up to the Engaging Clients from a Strength-based Solution-focused Perspective training, and assists caseworkers … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2014 |
| Engaging Clients from a Strengths-Based, Solution-Focused Perspective: Supervisor Support Session | This training course a follow up to the Engaging Clients from a Strength-based Solution-focused Perspective training, and assists supervisors in … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2014 |
| Making Replication Work: Building Infrastructure to Implement, Scale-up, and Sustain Evidence-Based Early Childhood Home Visiting Programs with Fidelity | This report describes a national cross-site evaluation of Supporting Evidence-Based Home Visiting to Prevent Child Maltreatment (EBHV), an initiative to … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2014 |
| Updated Inventory of Evidence-based, Research-based & Promising Practices | This report, per legislation E2SHB 2536, provides updates to the inventory of evidence-based, research-based, and promising practices, and reflects changes … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2014 |
| Programs That Work, from the Promising Practices Network on Children, Famlies & Communities | This document provides summaries of all of the programs and practices that credible research indicated are effective in improving outcomes … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2014 |
| Inventory of Evidence-based, Research-based and Promising Practices | This document offers an inventory of evidence-based, research-based, and promising practices and services delivered to children and juveniles in the … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2014 |
| Willing, Able –> Ready: Basics & Policy Implications of Readiness as Key Component for Implementation of Evidence-Based Interventions | This brief describes the role of readiness in implementing and scaling up EBIs, establishing the basics of readiness using the … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2014 |
| Using Evidence-Based Constructs to Assess Extent of Implementation of Evidence-Based Interventions | This brief introduces several constructs that can be used to describe, monitor, and facilitate implementation. It also describes how to … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2014 |
| The Importance of Contextual Fit When Implementing Evidence-Based Interventions | This issue brief advocates proposes a set of core elements drawn from the existing literature that can be used to … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2014 |
| Video series: A Framework to Design, Test, Spread, and Sustain Effective Practice in Child Welfare | Video series: A Framework to Design, Test, Spread, and Sustain Effective Practice in Child Welfare | Evidence-Based Practice | 2014 |
| A Framework to Design, Test, Spread, and Sustain Effective Child Welfare Practice: Tying It All Together (Part 5) | This video illustrates all five phases of the framework through a single case example. It also discusses how subsidized guardianship … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2014 |
| Beyond Quick Fixes: Agency Priorities – Keep Focused and Don’t get Lost in the Chaos! | This document features a series of articles regarding the status of child protection services in the United States and proposals … | System Reform | 2014 |
| Innovations in NYC Health and Human Services Policy: Child Welfare Policy | This policy brief focuses on the child welfare reforms implemented in New York City from 2002 and 2013 that many … | System Reform | 2014 |
| On the Frontline: Improving Child Protective Services Investigations | This webinar provides an outline of On the Frontline, an Annie E. Casey Foundation initiative to strengthen child protection and … | System Reform | 2014 |
| Report to the Sunset Advisory Commission: Child Protective Services Transformation | This report summarizes the progress of Texas Department of Family and Protective Services’ (DFPS) to reform Child Protective Servicesto include … | System Reform | 2014 |
| Texas DFPS CPS Operational Review – The Stephen Group | This operational review of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS), Child Protective Services (CPS) identifies ways in … | System Reform | 2014 |
| The Utility of Trouble – From Crisis to Opportunity: Child Welfare Reform in MA | This report provides an outside perspective and examples of effective strategies implemented by states and jurisdictions who struggle with ways … | System Reform | 2014 |
| An Assessment of Child Welfare Privatization in Nebraska | This study compares the performance of case management functions by Nebraska Families Collaborative (NFC) in the Eastern Service Area with … | Community Engagement | 2014 |
| Community Readiness for Community Change | This study compares the performance of case management functions by Nebraska Families Collaborative (NFC) in the Eastern Service Area with … | Community Engagement | 2014 |
| NRC-Adoption Readiness Assessment Tool for Community-based System of Care | This assessment is designed to guide states, territories and tribes in building a coordinated and integrated system of care to … | Community Engagement | 2014 |
| Strengthening Neighborhoods through Faith-Based & Community Partnerships: Resource Guide (Oregon) | This guide is designed for those engaging in faith-based community partnerships to provide and facilitate social supports; faith-based partnerships with … | Community Engagement | 2014 |
| Writing Reports & Telling Success Stories | This two-page guide outlines how to structure and construct an outcome report when sharing the results of evaluation activities, to … | Community Engagement | 2014 |
| Coaching Strategies | Coaching is a critical strategy in transfer of learning and implementation of change. This one hour module offers supervisors the opportunity … | Coaching | 2014 |
| Alameda County Social Services Agency’s Child Welfare: On the Job Training Manual for Supervisors of New Employees | This guide offers supervisors a way to complement day-to-day supervision and contains (1) suggested guideline for practice assessment process; (2) … | Supervision | 2014 |
| Developmental Evaluation Findings from an Online Leadership Program for Child Welfare Supervisors | This study evaluates a distance learning program designed to build leadership skills for supervisors in public, private, and tribal child … | Supervision | 2014 |
| Leadership Development Online: Design and Implementation of a Program for Child Welfare Supervisors | This article describes the Leadership Academy for Supervisors (LAS), a national program to develop leadership skills for the implementation of … | Supervision | 2014 |
| Trauma and Resilience: Legal Advocacy for Youth in Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Systems | This document explains key risks of and opportunities for using information about trauma to advocate for youth in the juvenile … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2014 |
| Historical Highlights of Trauma Informed Care | This document summarizes historical timeline of national efforts to provide trauma-informed care. | Trauma-informed Practice | 2014 |
| Colorado Child Welfare County Workload Study | This in-depth study establishes a comprehensive picture of the State’s child welfare county actual and estimated workload and staffing levels, … | Workload | 2014 |
| Colorado Department of Human Services: Colorado Child Welfare County Workload Study | This report contains the results of a workload study in 64 Colorado counties and establishes a comprehensive picture of the … | Workload | 2014 |
| Workload and Casework Review: Qualitative Review of Social Worker Caseload, Casework and Workload Management | This report describes the findings of the qualitative review of social worker caseload, casework and workload management and identifies key … | Workload | 2014 |
| Workload Management: Caseworker Readiness Activity | This document offers various activities and guidance to ensure new caseworkers can be most effective in managing their caseloads. | Workload | 2014 |
| Differential Response Family Engagement Toolkit | This document outlines Family Engagement skill sets for the use with child welfare practitioners to enhance and improve their skills … | Family-Centered Practice | 2014 |
| Building and Sustaining Father Engagement | This training course explores methods to identify, locate and engage fathers, and the skills necessary to identify strengths and to … | Family-Centered Practice | 2014 |
| Engagement Part 3: “A Success Story” | This video features UNC-Chapel Hill faculty member and human services trainer, Dan Comer, who offers a moving real-world example that … | Family-Centered Practice | 2014 |
| Engagement Part 2: “Why We Struggle with Engagement” | This video features UNC-Chapel Hill faculty member and child welfare trainer, Dan Comer, who suggests steps practitioners can take to … | Family-Centered Practice | 2014 |
| Engagement Part 1: “Engagement in Child Welfare Work” | This video features UNC-Chapel Hill faculty member and child welfare trainer with 30 years in the field, Dan Comer, who … | Family-Centered Practice | 2014 |
| An Example of Leadership Transfer of Learning Through the NCWWI Toolkit: Learning and Living Leadership | This document provides a series of activities to cultivate the leadership competencies from the NCWWI Leadership Model and Competency Framework … | Adaptive Leadership | 2014 |
| Bridging the Gap: A Learning Activity on Effective Multidisciplinary Collaboration | This paper highlights a learning activity that demonstrates the principles of collaboration and the impact it has within the field … | Adaptive Leadership | 2014 |
| Competency-based Leadership Development | This article describes a competency-based leadership development program in child welfare that has demonstrated effectiveness by developing a comprehensive competency … | Adaptive Leadership | 2014 |
| Training and Development in Human Services: Special Issue on Leadership Development | This special issue of Training and Development in Human Services focuses on leadership development and includes articles on competency-based leadership … | Adaptive Leadership | 2014 |
| Beyond Quick Fixes: Effective Agency Leadership in a Changeable Environment | This the third in a series of articles regarding the current status of child protection services in the United States … | Leadership | 2014 |
| Leading Practice: A Resource Guide for Child Protection Leaders | This guide operationalizes five leadership capabilities – critical reflection, engaging others, managing oneself, delivering results and leading and inspiring. It … | Leadership | 2014 |
| CalSWEC’s Ecological Model for Workforce Development | This model was developed as a guide for workforce development evaluation and research activities. The model depicts the contributions of education, in-service … | Workforce Development Planning | 2014 |
| Iowa Caseworker Competencies and Assessment | This survey is designed to assist each social worker with a review of their competencies and individual learning needs; a … | Performance Management | 2014 |
| Maine Caseworker Competencies | This report on the competency model summarizes the work of developing the model and includes a description of the Maine … | Performance Management | 2014 |
| Maine Supervisor Competencies | This report relates specifically to the competencies of supervisors in the public child welfare system with the long-term goal of … | Performance Management | 2014 |
| Guide to Results-Based Planning and Facilitation: Achieving Results and Equity for Vulnerable Children and Youth | This guide explains how to use a proven strategic planning discipline -Results-Based Accountability (RBA) – to achieve population level results, … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2014 |
| Diversity Is Useless Without Inclusivity | This article discusses the four dynamics that frequently work against inclusiveness in many organizations: (1) people gravitate toward people like … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2014 |
| Key Components for an Effective Job Description & Template | This document is a human resource form to help develop an accurate and thorough job description. | Job Analysis and Position Requirements | 2014 |
| Secondary Trauma and Child Welfare Staff: Guidance for Supervisors and Administrators | This fact sheet provides information on how secondary traumatic stress (STS) manifests itself in child welfare, the kinds of staff … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2014 |
| 7 Lessons Learned from the Western Workforce Project | This document explains seven lessons learned after conducting Comprehensive Organizational Health Assessments (COHA) at four child welfare sites in Colorado, … | Workforce Development Planning | 2014 |
| A Framework to Design, Test, Spread, and Sustain Effective Child Welfare Practice: Develop & Test and Compare & Learn (Part 3) | This video introduces two additional phases of the framework: Develop & Test and Compare & Learn. It describes how agencies … | Change Implementation | 2014 |
| A Framework to Design, Test, Spread, and Sustain Effective Child Welfare Practice: Identify & Explore (Part 2) | This video explains the process of building evidence and spreading effective practice in child welfare begins with investigating a problem, … | Change Implementation | 2014 |
| A Framework to Design, Test, Spread, and Sustain Effective Child Welfare Practice: Replicate & Adapt and Apply & Improve (Part 4) | This video describes the Replicate & Adapt and Apply & Improve phases of the framework, explains how agencies can apply … | Change Implementation | 2014 |
| A Framework to Design, Test, Spread, and Sustain Effective Child Welfare Practice: Tying It All Together (Part 5) | This video illustrates all five phases of the framework through a single case example. It also discusses how subsidized guardianship … | Change Implementation | 2014 |
| A Guide to Build Capacity for Child Welfare Using the CQI Process | This report discusses guidelines for increasing the capacity of child welfare agencies through the use of their continuous CQI systems. … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2014 |
| A Review of Child Welfare Services at DSS SC | This report reviews various issues pertaining to child welfare services, procurement, and agency management at the South Carolina Department of … | Workforce Development Planning | 2014 |
| CalSWEC’s Ecological Model for Workforce Development | This model was developed as a guide for workforce development evaluation and research activities. The model depicts the contributions of education, in-service … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2014 |
| Casework and Evaluation: Learning From My Success Story | This video features a caseworker who explains the unexpected role that evaluation played in delivering the services and supports that … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2014 |
| Collaborative & Effective Evaluation in Tribal Communities: The Roles and Voices of Key Stakeholders | This video describes the roles of key stakeholders to create a new narrative for evaluation in Tribal communities and reflects … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2014 |
| Competency Menu Rating Worksheet | This form provides a menu of competencies that may be appropriate for a wide array of human service jobs to … | Workforce Development Planning | 2014 |
| Confidentiality Toolkit: A Resource Tool from the ACF Interoperability Initiative | This toolkit, developed by Administration for Children and Families (ACF), is intended to help jurisdictions successfully navigate the delicate balance … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2014 |
| Cost Analysis in Program Evaluation | This two part video discusses how cost analysis can be a helpful when performing program evaluation, and reviews steps in … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2014 |
| Creating a New Narrative: Collaborative and Effective Evaluation in Tribal Communities | This video describes historical experiences of intrusive research and judgmental evaluations that have caused harm to many American Indian and … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2014 |
| Framework for Managing with Data to Achieve Outcomes in Child Welfare | This five-step framework assists agencies in: engaging staff at all levels and community partners throughout the process; clarifying and focusing … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2014 |
| Getting it Done: Partnering to Overcome Concerns about Data Sharing | This video follows a child welfare director as she takes a moment to investigate some common barriers to data sharing … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2014 |
| Guide to Results-Based Planning and Facilitation: Achieving Results and Equity for Vulnerable Children and Youth | This guide explains how to use a proven strategic planning discipline -Results-Based Accountability (RBA) – to achieve population level results, … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2014 |
| Keeping Track of Our Most Valuable Resource: Using Workforce Data to Improve Child Welfare Programs | Keeping Track of Our Most Valuable Resource: | Workforce Development Planning | 2014 |
| Knowing the Numbers: Accessing and Using Child Welfare Data | This brief provides an overview of data sources that are useful to the child welfare community specifically, including the major … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2014 |
| Learning, Leading, Changing and Making a Difference | The video provides an overview of NCWWI through the perspectives of NCWWI’s diverse partners. It explains how NCWWI’s workforce development … | Adaptive Leadership, Change Implementation | 2014 |
| Lessons from the Field: Assessing and Improving CQI Systems in Child Welfare | This issue of Child Welfare Matters profiles a CQI assessment approach the NRCOI designed and implemented in partnership with State … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2014 |
| Making a Difference #1: Evaluation Findings, Strategies and Lessons Learned | This webinar offers an overview of what we learned through our evaluation and highlights findings from our research examining factors … | Workforce Development Planning | 2014 |
| Measurement Matters: How Should My Program Measure Changes in Child Well-Being? | This video presents guidance about issues to consider when attempting to measure changes in well-being outcomes for children and families … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2014 |
| On Equal Footing: The Importance of Baseline Equivalence in Measuring Program Effectiveness | This brief explains the role of baseline equivalence when measuring a home visiting program’s effectiveness, how to measure similarity of … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2014 |
| Partnerships, Evaluation, and Partnerships, Evaluation, and Effective Practice in Child Welfare: Introducing a New Framework (Part 1) | This video introduces a practical guide for strengthening child welfare systems called “A Framework to Design, Test, Spread, and Sustain … | Change Implementation | 2014 |
| Permanency Planning Today – CQI | This issue of Permanency Planning Today provides basic foundational information on evidence-based practice and points the readership toward resources and … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2014 |
| Sharing Data for Better Results: A Guide to Building Integrated Data Systems Compatible with Federal Privacy Laws | This toolkit helps agency leaders and staff use integrated data to improve city services, and provides information to find the … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2014 |
| Succession Planning for Government | This document explores talent management practices best to support a larger, more strategic role for HR in a rapidly changing … | Workforce Development Planning | 2014 |
| The 21st Century Public Service Workforce: Eight Lessons from the Literature | This paper summarizes eight lessons from the academic and policy literature on public service change and how change is impacting … | Workforce Development Planning | 2014 |
| The National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW): Implications for Child Welfare Evaluations | This video illustrates ways that the NSCAW- which provides nationally representative, longitudinal data on children and families that have been … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2014 |
| Use of Research Evidence: Building Two-Way Streets | This video challenges the traditional paradigm of moving from “research to practice,” suggesting that researchers and evaluators need to think … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2014 |
| Video series: A Framework to Design, Test, Spread, and Sustain Effective Practice in Child Welfare | This video series complements “A Framework to Design, Test, Spread, and Sustain Effective Practice in Child Welfare,” a publication for … | Change Implementation | 2014 |
| What are Predictive Analytics in Child Welfare? | This Prezi presentation defines predictive analytics, provides examples of how to use existing data sets in order to determine patterns … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2014 |
| What’s the Difference? Constructing Meaningful Comparison Groups | This video explains why it is important to use comparison groups to identify problems and understand whether practices and programs … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2014 |
| Who Cares about Data Sharing: Making the Case to the Courts | This video discusses the importance of courts and child welfare agencies utilizing practical performance measurement and data sharing to avoid … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2014 |
| Framework to Design, Test, Spread, and Sustain Effective Practice in Child Welfare | Evidence-Based Practice | 2014 | |
| An Example of Leadership Transfer of Learning Through the NCWWI Toolkit: Learning and Living Leadership | This document provides a series of activities to cultivate the leadership competencies from the NCWWI Leadership Model and Competency Framework … | Leadership | 2014 |
| Bridging the Gap: A Learning Activity on Effective Multidisciplinary Collaboration | This paper highlights a learning activity that demonstrates the principles of collaboration and the impact it has within the field … | Leadership | 2014 |
| Competency-based Leadership Development | This article describes a competency-based leadership development program in child welfare that has demonstrated effectiveness by developing a comprehensive competency … | Leadership | 2014 |
| Training and Development in Human Services: Special Issue on Leadership Development | This special issue of Training and Development in Human Services focuses on leadership development and includes articles on competency-based leadership … | Leadership | 2014 |
| Coaching in the Field of Child Welfare Toolkit | This toolkit guides the development and implementation of formal, professional coaching within the child welfare context; presents many examples and … | Education/Professional Development | 2014 |
| Creating and Sustaining Effective & Outcome-Oriented Child Welfare University-Agency Research Partnerships | This brief provides guidance on research-based principles to guide effective partnerships between social work education programs and child welfare agencies … | Education/Professional Development | 2014 |
| The Cost of Caring: Secondary Traumatic Stress and the Impact of Working with High-Risk Children and Families | This article provides three case examples in which individuals are affected by Secondary Traumatic Stress. The author gives further examples … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2014 |
| A Guide to Responding to Microaggressions | This article discusses how different types of microaggressions affect people’s lives and provides a hands-on guide to strategies, approaches, and … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2014 |
| Paying Attention to White Culture and Privilege: A Missing Link to Advancing Racial Equity | This article shares the authors’ observations of patterns of behavior by whites and people of color as we have experienced … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2014 |
| The Irresistible Power of Storytelling as a Strategic Business Tool | This article from the Harvard Business Review explains why storytelling is a powerful tool that can inspire others to action. | Communication, Community Engagement, Leadership | 2014 |
| SAMHSA’s Concept of Trauma and Guidance for a Trauma-Informed Approach | SAMHSA wrote this document to inform broad audiences about trauma, the need to address it, and the necessity for trauma-informed … | Change Implementation, Trauma-informed Practice | 2014 |
| Using Publicly Available Data to Engage IV-E Students in Research and Statistics | This curriculum provides Title IV-E and others students interested in public child welfare systems with an overview of the state’s … | University Partnerships | 2013 |
| California BASW Student Competencies | This document provides BASW competencies linked to a common core of knowledge, values, and skills shared by public child welfare … | University Partnerships | 2013 |
| Twelve NCWWI Traineeship Programs: Comprehensive Summary of Legacies & Lessons Learned | This document summarizes the commonalities across the three NCWWI Traineeship program types – MSW, BSW and Tribal1 and offers the … | University Partnerships | 2013 |
| MSW Traineeship Programs: Legacies & Lessons Learned | This document provides recommendations based on successful innovations and strategies that were common across NCWWI’s MSW traineeship programs which were … | Education/Professional Development, University Partnerships | 2013 |
| BSW Traineeship Programs: Legacies & Lessons Learned | This document provides recommendations based on successful innovations and strategies that were common across NCWWI’s BSW traineeship programs, which were … | University Partnerships | 2013 |
| Facilitation Skills for Trainers | This training course explores American Public Human Services Association’s success factors for facilitators and S.M.A.R.T. plan to trainers for improving … | Training | 2013 |
| Critical Thinking: The Trainer’s Role | This training course explores the concept of critical thinking as a process and examine the steps involved, explore why critical … | Training | 2013 |
| A National Review of Child Welfare Pre-Service Curriculum Development Methods and Training Materials | This national child welfare training curriculum review informs the development of Florida’s pre-service training for child welfare professionals throughout the … | Training | 2013 |
| The Implicit Association Test | This assessment measures unconscious associations about race, gender, sexual orientation, and other characteristics. | Cultural Responsiveness | 2013 |
| Ten Lessons for Taking Leadership on Racial Equity | This document distills ten lessons for how to take leadership on the difficult topic of race in America and is … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2013 |
| Racial Equity Tools Glossary | This list defines commonly used terms in order to enhance the quality of dialogue and discourse on race in America … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2013 |
| Race to Equity Toolkit for Conversation | This toolkit offers facilitation assistance to school, faith, and community groups that want to discuss the data presented in the … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2013 |
| Race to Equity: A Baseline Report on the State of Racial Disparities in Dane County | This report summarizes the first year of data collection, analysis and community feedback–all aimed at promoting greater public awareness and … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2013 |
| A Blueprint for Using Data to Reduce Disparities/Disproportionalities in Human Services & Behavioral Health | This guide shows how to use data to help achieve racial equity in human and behavioral health care services policy, … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2013 |
| When Child Welfare Works: A Proposal for Financing Best Practices | This report highlights strategies for the reinvestment of federal child welfare funding aimed at supporting better outcomes for children and … | Turnover | 2013 |
| When Child Welfare Works: A Working Paper | This paper outlines a policy framework and recommendations to encourage best practices in four areas: permanence and well-being; quality family … | Turnover | 2013 |
| Learning Circles: An Introductory Manual | This manual provides detailed information on the learning circle approach, competencies and principles. | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2013 |
| Field and Office Worker Safety Guidelines | This document has been developed to help assure the safety of Division of Public Health employees in the workplace. It … | Worker Safety | 2013 |
| Assessing Client Dangerousness to Self and Others: Stratified Risk Management Approaches | This document provides guidance to students or practitioners regarding ethical standards, risk assessment, and response to prevent clients from harming … | Worker Safety | 2013 |
| NASW Guidelines for Social Worker Safety | These guidelines address safety within the context of social work practice and aim to inform social workers, policymakers, employers, and … | Worker Safety | 2013 |
| Western Workforce Project | This website provides resources and products from the Western Workforce Project which was designed to create and test a workforce … | Recruitment | 2013 |
| The PII Approach: Building Implementation and Evaluation Capacity in Child Welfare | This report describes Permanency Innovations Initiative’s collaborative approach to implementation and evaluation. | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2013 |
| Realizing the Potential of Research in Child Welfare | This essay discusses the use of research within the child welfare system with two goals: (1) to stimulate interest in … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2013 |
| Cost Analysis in Program Evaluation: A Guide for Child Welfare Researchers and Service Providers | This guide offers a framework for integrating cost analysis into program evaluations as part of child welfare services; providing guidance … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2013 |
| Lessons Learned through the Application of Implementation Science Concepts to Children’s Bureau Discretionary Grant Programs | This report explores the organizational characteristics, activities, and processes that facilitate the successful implementation of innovative CB discretionary grant projects, … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2013 |
| Lessons Learned through the Application of Implementation Science Concepts to Children’s Bureau Discretionary Grant Programs | This report explores the organizational characteristics, activities, and processes that facilitate the successful implementation of innovative CB discretionary grant projects, … | System Reform | 2013 |
| A Family Center Spotlight on Father Engagement | This training course, by sharing an organization’s experience engaging fathers, helps individuals and organizations develop and/or grow a father engagement … | Community Engagement | 2013 |
| Child Welfare: Do We All Speak the Same Language Video Training | This webinar, presented by Robin Jensen and Jonathon Growick (Children’s Legal Services), offers ways to optimize communication between all individuals … | Communication, Community Engagement | 2013 |
| Developing the Leadership of Recipients | This report includes two case studies of leadership development efforts by nonprofit organizations who provided opportunities for clients to have … | Community Engagement | 2013 |
| Discussion Guide: Client Voice and Engagement | This guide helps organizations delve deeper into their own individual programs or areas of work and begin to generate concrete … | Community Engagement | 2013 |
| The Employee Performance Review Process | This training course focuses on the entire Employee Performance Review process as well as the skills needed to establish performance … | Performance Management | 2013 |
| Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit | This online course is based on the Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit which teaches basic knowledge, skills, and values about … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2013 |
| Creating Trauma-Informed Systems of Child Welfare | This document outlines the second edition of “Creating Trauma-Informed Child Welfare Systems: A Guide for Administrators” which includes the 7 … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2013 |
| Safe Start Center | This website explores the recommendations from a report released based on the Defending Childhood Initiative that was launched to address … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2013 |
| Peer Coach Procedure Guide (MI) | The guide provides information regarding the Peer Coach role, the observation process, and how to provide feedback utilizing the MiTEAM … | Coaching | 2013 |
| NASW Standards for Social Work Practice in Child Welfare | This document is a basic tool for social work practice in child welfare that might include family preservation and support, … | Practice Supports | 2013 |
| Solution-Based Casework Overview | This document is provides a brief overview of Solution-Based Casework based on the information available in The California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse … | Family-Centered Practice | 2013 |
| Measuring Compliance with the Indian Child Welfare Act: An Assessment Toolkit | This toolkit identifies strengths and weaknesses of different data collection approaches, provides sample tools or questions for the sites, and … | Practice Supports | 2013 |
| Child welfare matters: Leading Adaptively in Child Welfare | This issue focuses on integrating the concepts and tools of adaptive leadership into training and technical assistance (TTA) work, exercising … | Adaptive Leadership, Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership | 2013 |
| Leadership and the Parallel Process | This training course provides a framework to examine the parallel process between the leader, the employee and the client as … | Leadership | 2013 |
| Using Strengths-Based Leadership to Improve the Child Welfare System | This articles describes how the Neighborhoods for Kids program effectively achieved improved safety, well-being, and permanency of children in the … | Leadership | 2013 |
| Extraordinary Leadership: Suncoast Region | This training video discusses leadership traits, principles, and qualities; a number of critical skills (i.e. active listening) and essential practices … | Leadership | 2013 |
| Media Toolkit for Child Welfare Leaders | This document provides tips and strategies child welfare leaders can use to work effectively with the media and to increase … | Leadership | 2013 |
| Colorado Caseworker Competencies | This is an extensive list of competencies categorized by skill set and organized numerically based on the fundamentals of family-centered … | Performance Management | 2013 |
| Washington Developmental Competencies for Social Workers and Social Service Specialists | This document offers a graph of all knowledge and skills related to assigned job tasks for social workers and social … | Performance Management | 2013 |
| Washington Developmental Competencies for Supervisors | v | Performance Management | 2013 |
| A Blueprint for Using Data to Reduce Disparities/Disproportionalities in Human Services & Behavioral Health | This guide shows how to use data to help achieve racial equity in human and behavioral health care services policy, … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2013 |
| A Comprehensive Workforce Strategy to Advance Child Welfare Outcomes | This report is a compilation of input from leaders and universities in 28 U. S. states and counties. The group … | Workforce Development Planning | 2013 |
| Building Data Driven Child Welfare Practice: An Evaluation of the Manage by Data Initiative | This report presents findings from the evaluation of Manage by Data which sought to identify implementation challenges and solutions, presenting … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2013 |
| Data-Driven Decision Making Toolkit (Los Angeles) | This guide provides key information and practical tools for consistent integration of Data-driven Decision Making (DDDM) principles and strategies into … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2013 |
| Success Beyond 18: Re-Examining the Foster Care Review Process: Extended Foster Care as a Catalyst for Improved Practices and Better Outcomes | This paper focuses on the role of courts in establishing case oversight and review processes that include youth in developmentally … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2013 |
| Learning, Leading, Changing and Making a Difference | The video provides an overview of the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute (NCWWI) through the perspectives of NCWWI’s diverse partnerships. … | Leadership | 2013 |
| Washington Developmental Competencies for Social Workers and Social Service Specialists | This document offers a graph of all knowledge and skills related to assigned job tasks for social workers and social … | Education/Professional Development | 2013 |
| Washington Developmental Competencies for Supervisors | This document offers a graph of all knowledge and skills related to assigned job tasks for supervisors. | Education/Professional Development | 2013 |
| Facilitation Skills for Trainers | This training course explores American Public Human Services Association’s success factors for facilitators and S.M.A.R.T. plan to trainers for improving … | Education/Professional Development | 2013 |
| Critical Thinking: The Trainer’s Role | This training course explores the concept of critical thinking as a process and examine the steps involved, explore why critical … | Education/Professional Development | 2013 |
| A National Review of Child Welfare Pre-Service Curriculum Development Methods and Training Materials | This national child welfare training curriculum review informs the development of Florida’s pre-service training for child welfare professionals throughout the … | Education/Professional Development | 2013 |
| California BASW Student Competencies | This document provides BASW competencies linked to a common core of knowledge, values, and skills shared by public child welfare … | Education/Professional Development | 2013 |
| Twelve NCWWI Traineeship Programs: Comprehensive Summary of Legacies & Lessons Learned | This document summarizes the commonalities across the three NCWWI Traineeship program types – MSW, BSW and Tribal1 and offers the … | Education/Professional Development | 2013 |
| Realizing the Potential of Research in Child Welfare | This essay discusses our interest in the use of research within the child welfare system in order to: (1) stimulate … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2013 |
| Collection of Teaching Resources from NCWWI Traineeship Program Syllabi | This document provides teaching resources that are part of the NCWWI Traineeship Program and are drawn from courses that focus … | University Partnerships | 2012 |
| Collection of NCWWI Traineeship Program Syllabi | This collection of syllabi from the NCWWI Traineeships reflect examples of new courses that focus on child welfare practice as … | University Partnerships | 2012 |
| Child Welfare Traineeships: 12 Comprehensive Program and Innovation Summaries | This document offers a summary of the 12 NCWWI Traineeship Programs, providing a snap-shot of the goals and initiatives of … | University Partnerships | 2012 |
| Traineeship Programs: Promising Approaches & Strategies | This document provides descriptions of 12 programs selected to receive federal funds for each of five years to support professional … | University Partnerships | 2012 |
| NRC-OI Supervisor Training Project 2011: Information on Mentoring & Coaching Programs for Child Welfare Supervisors | This document provides information on what states have been doing to train and support child welfare supervisors, along with available … | Coaching | 2012 |
| Tips and Techniques for Engaging Participants | This training course explores techniques and approaches to tailor training to both participants’ needs as well as the facilitator’s training … | Training | 2012 |
| Boundaries and Professional Conduct | This training video identifies the role boundaries play in the work of child welfare; identifies appropriate boundaries; and provides scenarios … | Training | 2012 |
| Child Welfare Training from the Individual Worker Perspective (California) | This brief presents information gather from individual workers to examine their viewpoints in order to identify training needs, barriers to … | Training | 2012 |
| Supervisor and Mentor Guide FY 2012 (Oklahoma) | This guide explains the Oklahoma’s New Worker Development Plan concept, outlines what new staff can expect from the child welfare … | Mentoring | 2012 |
| Cultural Humility | This 30-minute documentary explains what cultural humility is and why we need it, and describes a set of principles that … | Communication, Cultural Responsiveness | 2012 |
| Staff Transition & Retention Checklist | This checklist operationalizes the strategies found in the fact sheet, “Achieving Program Stability Through a Focus on Staffing,” to address … | Turnover | 2012 |
| A Foster Care Practice Model: Lifelong Families Training Curriculum | This curriculum is designed to train social workers in the implementation of the Lifelong Families permanency approach so kids in … | Vision, Mission, and Values | 2012 |
| Child Welfare Practice: Creating a Successful Climate for Change (California) | This report presents the findings of an institutional analysis in Los Angeles, CA regarding the policies and practices that may … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2012 |
| Design Teams & Learning Circles: Agency- & Unit-level Interventions for Improving Organizational Climate & Culture | This webinar shares two innovative methods, Design Teams and Learning Circles, to tackle change while improving organizational culture and climate; … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2012 |
| Assessing and Improving Organizational Culture and Climate | This presentation discusses why it is important to assess and improve organizational culture and climate and two different tools that … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2012 |
| Child Welfare Education & Training Partnership Experienced Worker Safety Trainer Manual (IN) | This curriculum provides experienced Family Case Managers a refresher on risk management and safety awareness, reminding workers to recognize unsafe … | Worker Safety | 2012 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Domestic Violence and Worker Safety | This webpage provides resources that describe the risk factors and special safety precautions child welfare workers may need to take … | Worker Safety | 2012 |
| Safety and Security While in the Field | This video from a Community Police Officer provides safety and security tips while in the field and life in general. | Worker Safety | 2012 |
| Addressing Secondary Traumatic Stress Among Child Welfare Staff: A Practice Brief | This paper addresses occupational stress experienced by staff responsible for investigating allegations of child abuse and neglect and making decisions … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2012 |
| Symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Among Child Welfare Workers who Experience a Maltreatment Fatality on Their Caseload | This document presents findings from the study Child Maltreatment Fatalities: Perceptions and Experiences of Child Welfare Professionals, assessing the knowledge, … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2012 |
| Secondary Trauma and the Child Welfare Workforce – CW360 | This edition of CW360° focuses on the unique challenges faced by child welfare professionals, undertaking the day to day work … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2012 |
| Planning for Emotional Labor and Secondary Traumatic Stress in Child Welfare Organizations | This paper provides an emergent framework that emphasizes early detection and quick response for secondary traumatic stress. Recommendations and guidelines … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2012 |
| Guide for Child Welfare Administrators on Evidence Based Practice | This guide provides information on the conditions, challenges, and opportunities of evidence-based practice in child welfare. | Evidence-Based Practice | 2012 |
| Engaging Clients from a Strengths-Based Solution-Focused Perspective | This training course provides child welfare professionals with an understanding of, and useful strategies for, effective engagement and the appropriate … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2012 |
| Permanency Planning Today: Evidence-based Practice | This issue of Permanency Planning Today provides basic foundational information on evidence-based practice and points the readership toward resources and … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2012 |
| Child Welfare Practice: Creating a Successful Climate for Change | This report presents the findings of an institutional analysis in Los Angeles, CA, of the policies and practices that may … | System Reform | 2012 |
| Direct Service Workers’ Recommendations for Child Welfare Financing and System Reform | This report summarizes frontline workers’ and supervisors’ survey responses and analyzes the implications their answers have on continuing efforts to … | System Reform | 2012 |
| For the Welfare of Children: Lessons Learned from Class Action Litigation | This document presents a series of papers evaluating the use of class action litigation to reform public child welfare systems. … | System Reform | 2012 |
| Strategies to Increase Birth Parent Engagement, Partnership, and Leadership in the Child Welfare System: A Review | This report explores barriers and proactive strategies to engaging birth parents with child welfare services; developing connections between birth parents … | Community Engagement | 2012 |
| System of Care Practice Review (SOCPR) Training Tutorial | This training tutorial for SOCPR-R, a tool for assessing whether SOC principles have been operationalized at the level of practice … | Community Engagement | 2012 |
| Supervisor & Mentor Guide FY 2012 (Oklahoma) | This guide explains the Oklahoma’s New Worker Development Plan concept, outlines what new staff can expect from the child welfare … | Mentoring | 2012 |
| Improving Supervision by Collaboration, Transparency & Accountability: The Impact of Missouri’s Supervision Advisory Committee | This webinar showcases the activities of the Missouri Department of Social Services’ Children’s Division, and presents the action steps and … | Supervision | 2012 |
| Responding to the Child Welfare Workforce Crisis Here and Now: A Constructivist Approach to Understanding Supervision | This paper describes the process and results of constructivist inquiry designed to answer the guiding research questions: (1) what about … | Supervision | 2012 |
| What is Trauma-Informed Care? | This document provides general information about Trauma informed Care (TIC) and guiding considerations, principles and definitions offered by experts in … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2012 |
| Well-being and New Policy Directions in Child Welfare | This webinar identifies four basic domains of well-being and articulates the need for trauma-informed screening, functional assessment, and effective, evidence-informed … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2012 |
| Child Traumatic Stress: CHDI’s Response to a Public Health Crisis | This brief focuses on child traumatic stress as a public health issue and efforts to increase awareness, engage in activities … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2012 |
| Creating Trauma-Informed Child Welfare Systems: A Guide For Administrators | This document outlines the second edition of “Creating Trauma-Informed Child Welfare Systems: A Guide for Administrators” which includes the 7 … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2012 |
| Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Addressing the Mental Health of Sexually Abused Children | This issue brief explores research and practice on trauma focused cognitive-behavioral therapy (TF-CBT), which is an evidence-based treatment approach shown … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2012 |
| Guide for Developing & Implementing Child Welfare Practice Models | This guide offers an overall framework for developing, implementing and/or strengthening a family-centered practice model, cites specific examples from States … | Practice Supports | 2012 |
| Family Preservation & Family Centered Practice | Identifies the philosophy and values of family preservation services and addresses family engagement, assessment, case planning, teaming, and more. | Family-Centered Practice | 2012 |
| Family Preservation & Family Centered Practice | Family-Centered Practice | 2012 | |
| Working with Kinship Caregivers | Practice Supports | 2012 | |
| Ohio IHS Caseworker Core Competencies | This document provides a list and descriptions of the fundamentals of family-centered child protective services and related skill sets and … | Performance Management | 2012 |
| Ohio IHS Supervisor Related Competencies | This document provides a list of various topics specific to supervisor roles in child welfare and the related competencies and … | Performance Management | 2012 |
| Ohio IHS Supervisor Specialized Competencies | This document provides a list of various specialized topics specific to supervisor roles in child welfare and the related competencies … | Performance Management | 2012 |
| Ohio IHS Supervisor/Manager Competencies | This document provides a list of various topics specific to supervisor and manager roles in child welfare and the related … | Performance Management | 2012 |
| Rhode Island Individual Learning Needs Survey & Individual Learning Plan | This survey contains a list of competencies specific to the child welfare field, and used by new workers and their … | Performance Management | 2012 |
| Secondary Traumatic Stress Informed Organization Assessment Tool (STSI-OA) | This webpage provides a tool to evaluate the degree to which an organization is STS-informed, and able to respond to … | Burnout | 2012 |
| Addressing Secondary Traumatic Stress Among Child Welfare Staff: A Practice Brief | This paper addresses occupational stress experienced by staff responsible for investigating allegations of child abuse and neglect and making decisions … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2012 |
| Planning for Emotional Labor and Secondary Traumatic Stress in Child Welfare Organizations | This paper provides an emergent framework that emphasizes early detection and quick response for secondary traumatic stress. Recommendations and guidelines … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2012 |
| Secondary Trauma and the Child Welfare Workforce – CW360 | This edition of CW360° focuses on the unique challenges faced by child welfare professionals, undertaking the day to day work … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2012 |
| Symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Among Child Welfare Workers who Experience a Maltreatment Fatality on Their Caseload | This document presents findings from the study Child Maltreatment Fatalities: Perceptions and Experiences of Child Welfare Professionals, assessing the knowledge, … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2012 |
| Building Workforce Capacity through a Child Welfare Practice Model: Lessons from the Field | This paper shares specific and targeted strategies employed by states for improving supervision and front line practice, quality assurance, as … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2012 |
| In Pursuit of Better Outcomes – Putting CQI in North Carolina’s Child Welfare Toolbox | This issue of Training Matters provides an overview of the state’s system of CQI, REAP (Reaching for Accountability and Excellence … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2012 |
| New Jersey Fellows: Building Capacity in “Managing by Data” to Improve Leadership, Frontline Practice & Case Outcomes | This webinar showcases an innovative program at the New Jersey Department of Children and Families (NJ DCF) to build capacity … | Data-Driven Decision Making, Leadership | 2012 |
| Workforce Development in Child Welfare: Summary of Research, State Initatives and Other Innovations | This report provides information on workforce development initiatives in child welfare and in other fields with an emphasis on recruitment, … | Workforce Development Planning | 2012 |
| Workforce Planning Checklist – GA | This checklist developed by Georgia State Personnel Administrationis a step-by-step checklist for effective workforce planning. | Workforce Development Planning | 2012 |
| Workforce Planning Guidelines – GA | This guidelinedeveloped by Georgia State Personnel Administration provides a framework to implement and sustain effective workforce planning. The presentation outlines … | Workforce Development Planning | 2012 |
| Workforce Planning Training – GA | This presentation developed by Georgia State Personnel Administration provides a framework to implement and sustain effective workforce planning. The presentation … | Workforce Development Planning | 2012 |
| Workforce Planning Training – GA | Workforce Development Planning | 2012 | |
| Guide for Developing & Implementing Child Welfare Practice Models | Practice Supports | 2012 | |
| Coaching in Child Welfare | This issue brief supports child welfare administrators, managers, and supervisors in understanding the potential role of coaching and considerations for … | Education/Professional Development | 2012 |
| NRC-OI Supervisor Training Project 2011: Information on Mentoring & Coaching Programs for Child Welfare Supervisors | This document provides information on what states have been doing to train and support child welfare supervisors, along with available … | Education/Professional Development | 2012 |
| Supervisor and Mentor Guide FY 2012 (Oklahoma) | This guide explains the Oklahoma’s New Worker Development Plan concept, outlines what new staff can expect from the child welfare … | Education/Professional Development | 2012 |
| Rhode Island Individual Learning Needs Survey & Individual Learning Plan | This survey contains a list of competencies specific to the child welfare field, and used by new workers and their … | Education/Professional Development | 2012 |
| Tips and Techniques for Engaging Participants | This training course explores techniques and approaches to tailor training to both participants’ needs as well as the facilitator’s training … | Education/Professional Development | 2012 |
| Boundaries and Professional Conduct | This training video identifies the role boundaries play in the work of child welfare; identifies appropriate boundaries; and provides scenarios … | Education/Professional Development | 2012 |
| Child Welfare Training from the Individual Worker Perspective (California) | This brief presents information gather from individual workers to examine their viewpoints in order to identify training needs, barriers to … | Education/Professional Development | 2012 |
| Collection of Teaching Resources from NCWWI Traineeship Program Syllabi | This document provides teaching resources that are part of the NCWWI Traineeship Program and are drawn from courses that focus … | Education/Professional Development | 2012 |
| Collection of NCWWI Traineeship Program Syllabi | This collection of syllabi from the NCWWI Traineeships reflect examples of new courses that focus on child welfare practice as … | Education/Professional Development | 2012 |
| Child Welfare Traineeships: 12 Comprehensive Program and Innovation Summaries | This document offers a summary of the 12 NCWWI Traineeship Programs, providing a snap-shot of the goals and initiatives of … | Education/Professional Development | 2012 |
| Traineeship Programs: Promising Approaches & Strategies | This document provides descriptions of 12 programs selected to receive federal funds for each of five years to support professional … | Education/Professional Development | 2012 |
| Social Services Group Supervision Process Example | This document provides and example of how group supervision can be structured in a social services agency. | Supervision | 2012 |
| Racial Equity Toolkit to Assess Policies, Initiatives, Programs, and Budget Issues | “The Racial Equity Toolkit lays out a process and a set of questions to guide the development, implementation and evaluation … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2012 |
| Linking North Carolina Child Welfare Outcomes with Professionalism of Staff | This paper evaluates the role of the educational background of the caseworker as it relates to outcomes for children and … | University Partnerships | 2011 |
| Motivational Interviewing as a Practice Innovation in Child Welfare | This webinar is an opportunity to hear about implementing Motivational Interviewing (MI) as a practice innovation in child welfare agencies … | University Partnerships | 2011 |
| Research Is Action: Disparity, Poverty, and the Need for New Knowledge | This report explores the issue of disparity in relation to child poverty and maltreatment, and the reasons for investing more … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2011 |
| Ideas to Prevent Pathways to Burnout in Child Welfare Services | This publication explores the potential impact of worker burnout on practice with children and families; discusses primary pathways to burnout … | Burnout | 2011 |
| What is an Inclusive Culture? | This brief reviews three elements of an inclusive culture – universal design, or the creation of work spaces and structures … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2011 |
| Leadership, Diversity & Inclusion – insights from scholarship | This review of literature about leadership diversity in the United States, with a focus on public service, highlights the main … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2011 |
| Fostering Innovation Through a Diverse Workforce | This report, based on an exclusive survey of 321 executives at large global enterprises, show that organizations increasingly see having … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2011 |
| Organizational Effectiveness Handbook | This handbook is a compilation of models, tools, and methods that make up the American Public Human Services Association OE … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2011 |
| Tips for Making Home Visits in Child Welfare | This article offers general tips for building rapport physical safety and ethical consideration for social workers to consider when making … | Worker Safety | 2011 |
| Public Child Welfare Workers’ Safety Experiences: Predictors and Impact on Job Withdrawal Using Mixed-Methods Approach | This paper describes a qualitative study to understand both child welfare workers’ safety experiences during their home visits, and the … | Worker Safety | 2011 |
| Promoting Resilience and Reducing Secondary Trauma Among Child Welfare Staff: Participant Handbook | This manual contains handouts that accompany training to mitigate the impact of secondary traumatic stress among child protective staff; and … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2011 |
| Promoting Resilience and Reducing Secondary Trauma Among Child Welfare Staff: Training Manual | This manual describes a project to mitigate the impact of secondary traumatic stress among child protective staff in New York … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2011 |
| Compassion Fatigue Specialist Training Materials | This document include measurement tools and curriculum material for Compassion Fatigue Specialist 2-day training which includes a wide array of … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2011 |
| Secondary Traumatic Stress: A Fact Sheet for Child-Serving Professionals | This document outlines options for assessment, prevention, and interventions relevant to secondary stress, and describe the elements necessary for transforming … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2011 |
| Realistic Job Previews: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This document summarizes the article “Realistic Job Previews in Child Welfare: State Of Innovation And Practice”, which discusses the development, … | Job Analysis and Position Requirements | 2011 |
| Developing Models of Effective Child Welfare Staff Recruitment & Retention Training – Synthesis | This paper summaries project activities, from eight university programs, to develop, field test, revise, implement, evaluate, and disseminate an effective … | Recruitment | 2011 |
| Gaining Buy-In from the Front Line During Times of Change | This brief examines the critical role of frontline staff in implementing change, outlines key steps and strategies for engaging staff, … | Change Implementation | 2011 |
| Implementation Process Measure (IPM) | This measure is intended to track the processes that state, county, and tribal jurisdictions use to implement systems changes during … | Change Implementation | 2011 |
| Caring for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma: A Workshop for Resource Parents | This workshop is a PowerPoint-based training designed to be taught by a mental health professional and foster parent as co-facilitators … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2011 |
| A Road Map to Implementing Evidence-Based Programs | This course provides guidance to facilitate selection and implementation of one of the many evidence-based programs related to prevention and … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2011 |
| Expanding the Evidence Universe: Doing Better by Knowing More | This paper offers a five-part set of concrete actions that the philanthropic, public, non-profit, academic, business and entrepreneurial sectors can … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2011 |
| Congregate Care Rightsizing and Redesign (CT) | This report provides an overview of congregate care in Connecticut, describes levers of change in four practice areas, profiles younger … | System Reform | 2011 |
| Systems of Care Policy Action Guide | This guide is a capacity building tool that supports the process of identifying and advancing policy strategies to improve child … | System Reform | 2011 |
| We All Need Somebody: Supporting Children, Families & the Workforce in Connecticut’s Family Foster Care System (CT) | This report describes the systems change efforts to better utilize and support the State of Connecticut’s existing foster families, through … | System Reform | 2011 |
| What Works in Child Welfare Reform: Reducing Reliance on Congregate Care in Tennessee (TN) | This report explores the factors that enabled Tennessee to make and sustain dramatic declines in the number of children placed … | System Reform | 2011 |
| Building and Sustaining Child Welfare Partnerships | This action brief summarizes systems of care evaluation findings related to collaboration and draws from the lessons learned by systems … | Community Engagement | 2011 |
| Parent Organizing as a Strategy for Sustainable Policy Change | This report discusses parent organizing as a strategy for sustainable policy change and recommend steps funders can take to learn … | Community Engagement | 2011 |
| Supervisor Training: Coaching for Successful Practice Training Manual (Indiana) | This training manual builds on the coaching, mentoring, and modelling tools learned in Supervisor Core to emphasize strategies that build … | Coaching | 2011 |
| Supervision: The Safety Net for Front-line Child Welfare Practice | This report summarizes the body of research that underscores the critical role that supervisors play in supporting and sustaining the workforce; … | Supervision | 2011 |
| Trauma Informed Care for Children Exposed to Violence: Tips for Child Welfare Staff | This document provides information on what happens to children when exposed to violence, possible warning signs seen in different age … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2011 |
| Supporting Brain Development in Traumatized Children & Youth | This bulletin summarizes what you can do to support the identification and assessment of the impact of maltreatment and trauma … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2011 |
| Peer Coach Manual (Indiana) | This manual provides a brief overview for the Peer Coach (PC) position within the Indiana Child Welfare Practice Model, and … | Coaching | 2011 |
| Positioning Public Child Welfare Guidance: Practice Models | This guidance offers information on definitions, strategies, key processes, operations, and implementation of a public child welfare practice model. | Practice Models | 2011 |
| Motivational Interviewing as a Practice Innovation in Child Welfare | This webinar is an opportunity to hear about implementing Motivational Interviewing (MI) as a practice innovation in child welfare agencies … | Practice Supports | 2011 |
| Use of Cultural Brokers as an Approach to Community Engagement with African American Families in Child Welfare | This curriculum provides research highlights, historical perspectives, conceptual frameworks, approaches for community engagement, tools and experiential opportunities to strengthen social … | Family-Centered Practice | 2011 |
| Parent Leadership and Family Engagement in CPS and Foster Care (Virginia) | This edition of the Virginia Child Protection Newsletter emphasizes the importance of using a family engagement approach when working with … | Family-Centered Practice | 2011 |
| Engaging Children, Youth and Families | This issue of Improving Outcomes by Improving Practice deals with a foundational element of child welfare— engaging children, youth and … | Family-Centered Practice | 2011 |
| Leadership in Systems of Care: Creating and Communicating a Shared Vision | This brief describes the importance of a shared vision, the critical role of leadership, essential characteristics of successful leaders, and … | Leadership | 2011 |
| Advice to a New Child Services Leader | This paper conveys the lessons learned from Judge James W. Payne, along with suggestions and tips for making child services … | Leadership | 2011 |
| Social Workers in Social Services Agencies – Occupational Profile | This document outlines the various services that social service agencies provide; job functions within these agencies; the benefits and challenges … | Performance Management | 2011 |
| Fostering Innovation Through a Diverse Workforce | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2011 | |
| Leadership, Diversity & Inclusion – insights from scholarship | This review of literature about leadership diversity in the United States, with a focus on public service, highlights the main … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2011 |
| Compassion Fatigue Specialist Training Materials | This document include measurement tools and curriculum material for Compassion Fatigue Specialist 2-day training which includes a wide array of … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2011 |
| Promoting Resilience and Reducing Secondary Trauma Among Child Welfare Staff: Participant Handbook | This manual contains handouts that accompany training to mitigate the impact of secondary traumatic stress among child protective staff; and … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2011 |
| Promoting Resilience and Reducing Secondary Trauma Among Child Welfare Staff: Training Manual | This manual describes a project to mitigate the impact of secondary traumatic stress among child protective staff in New York … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2011 |
| Secondary Traumatic Stress: A Fact Sheet for Child-Serving Professionals | This document outlines options for assessment, prevention, and interventions relevant to secondary stress, and describe the elements necessary for transforming … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2011 |
| Child Welfare & Technology | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2011 | |
| Counting is Not enough: Investing in Quality Service Reviews | This report examines the practices of more than 20 jurisdictions, gathers insight from national experts and presents recommendations for improving … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2011 |
| Findings, Practice and Policy Implications from LONGSCAN: the 20-year Longitudinal Studies of Child Abuse and Neglect | This document provides an introduction to LONGSCAN, a project which was funded in part by the Children’s Bureau for two … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2011 |
| Quality Service Review: Protocol for Review of Current Status of Children & Families & the Performance of Key System Functions (Tennessee) | This document is designed for use in a case-based Quality Service Review (QSR) process and is used for conducting a … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2011 |
| Workforce Planning and Development Final Report (Arizona) | Workforce Development Planning | 2011 | |
| Workforce Planning and Development Final Report (Arizona) | Workforce Development Planning | 2011 | |
| Workforce Planning and Development Final Report (Arizona) | This report provides context for the technical assistance offered under the Human Services Workforce Initiative, shares the accomplishments, and includes the … | Workforce Development Planning | 2011 |
| Leadership Competency Framework | This document provides the NCWWI competency framework, which reflects the multi-dimensional nature of the child welfare field and the corresponding … | Adaptive Leadership, Leadership | 2011 |
| Social Workers in Social Services Agencies – Occupational Profile | This document outlines the various services that social service agencies provide; job functions within these agencies; the benefits and challenges … | Education/Professional Development | 2011 |
| Linking North Carolina Child Welfare Outcomes with Professionalism of Staff | This paper evaluates the role of the educational background of the caseworker as it relates to outcomes for children and … | Education/Professional Development | 2011 |
| Responding to Microaggressions and Bias | This tool can be used to guide conversations about microaggressions. | Cultural Responsiveness | 2011 |
| Public Narrative, Collective Action, and Power | This chapter discusses a framework that combines the head (strategy) and heart (narrative) to facilitate shared understanding and promote collective … | Community Engagement | 2011 |
| Public Narrative Planning Sheet | This worksheet walks you through storytelling as an advocacy tool with exercises and guiding questions for developing one’s “story of … | Communication, Community Engagement | 2011 |
| Real Cases: Integrating Child Welfare Practice Across the Social Work Curriculum | This webpage for Real Cases Project aims to broadly expand knowledge and skills of students and faculty concerning social work … | Community Engagement | 2010 |
| Basics of Coaching: A Brief Review of Recent Literature | This literature review describes the definition and benefits of coaching, when coaching is an effective tool, the role of the … | Coaching | 2010 |
| Training, Development, and Human Resources Toolkit | This toolkit addresses key issues and processes involved in building a system of care training and development program into the … | Training | 2010 |
| A New Key to Success: Guidelines for Effective Staff Development and Training Programs | This document is designed to provide basic information about the essential components for effective staff development and training. Such areas … | Training | 2010 |
| Cultural and Linguistic Competence Family Organization Assessment | This assessment tool supports family-focused organizations to: (1) plan for and incorporate culturally and linguistically competent policies, structures, and practices … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2010 |
| Structural Racism Theory of Change Framework | This presentation by the Center for the Study of Social Policy explains a step-by-step backward mapping process to help identify … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2010 |
| Child Welfare Workforce Turnover: Frontline workers‘ experiences with organizational culture & climate, and implications for organizational practice | This workforce study explores links between organizational factors and turnover in a sample of Oregon public child welfare workers and … | Turnover | 2010 |
| Kansas Child Welfare Comprehensive Workforce Plan | The report presents results of a state-wide assessment and preliminary plan to address agency and systems-level workforce issues. | Turnover | 2010 |
| Achieving Diversity in the Nonprofit Workplace: A Step-by Step Guide | This guide provides non-profit organizations with a step-by-step approach – in seven phases – to achieving diversity and inclusiveness in … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2010 |
| Diversity and Inclusion Framework – NASA | This framework from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is designed to provide the Agency with a solid foundation … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2010 |
| Child Welfare Workforce Turnover: Frontline workers‘ experiences with organizational culture & climate, and implications for organizational practice | This workforce study explores links between organizational factors and turnover in a sample of Oregon public child welfare workers and … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2010 |
| Leadership in Systems of Care: Creating and Communicating a Shared Vision | This brief describes the importance of a shared vision, the critical role of leadership, essential characteristics of successful leaders, and … | Vision, Mission, and Values | 2010 |
| Personal Safety for Social Workers | This video focuses on personal safety issues that social workers face on a regular basis including how to deal with … | Worker Safety | 2010 |
| Kansas Workforce Initiative Evidence Review: Secondary Traumatic Stress | This document reviews evidence and summarizes research on secondary traumatic stress (STS) in child welfare and social work, offering implications … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2010 |
| Adoption Competency Curriculum – Compassion Fatigue: Secondary Traumatic Stress Disorder, Burnout, Vicarious Trauma -Participant’s Handouts | This curriculum includes participant handout materials for a module that teaches participants to identify causes and symptoms of compassion fatigue, … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2010 |
| Adoption Competency Curriculum – Compassion Fatigue: Secondary Traumatic Stress Disorder, Burnout, Vicarious Trauma – Trainer’s Guide | This curriculum includes trainer preparation materials for a module that teaches participants to identify causes and symptoms of compassion fatigue, … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2010 |
| Systems of Care System Management Toolkit | This toolkit provides guidance for developing the day-to-day activities of those who are overseeing the system of care and provides … | Change Implementation | 2010 |
| Positioning Public Child Welfare Guidance: Strategy Guidance | This guide provides strategies and key processes for developing and executing a strategic plan, and practices for establishing and implementing … | Change Implementation | 2010 |
| Positioning Public Child Welfare Guidance: Change Management | This guide provides strategies, key processes, and practices for establishing and implementing change management to support everyone in an agency … | Change Implementation | 2010 |
| The Parent‐Child Assistance Program: A Model of Effective Community Intervention with High‐Risk Families | This document provides detailed information about Parent Child Assistance Program, an intervention model created to prevent future births of alcohol … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2010 |
| Statewide Implementation of a Family Centered Practice Model: Increasing Readiness & Managing Change (MS) | This overview of the Mississippi Change Management Implementation Project highlights the institutionalization of a family-centered practice culture in the Mississippi … | System Reform | 2010 |
| Community Partnerships: Improving the Response to Child Maltreatment | This manual discusses the importance of using a coordinated multidisciplinary approach to serving children and families. It also outlines the … | Community Engagement | 2010 |
| Meaningful Parent Leadership: A Guide for Success | This guide provides a roadmap to State Lead Agencies seeking to enhance their engagement of parents as stakeholders and leaders … | Community Engagement | 2010 |
| Positioning Public Child Welfare Guidance: Communications | This guide addresses how to develop and implement a strategic communications plan that is aligned with the mission, vision and … | Communication, Community Engagement, Leadership | 2010 |
| Positioning Public Child Welfare Guidance: Strategic Partnerships Guidance | This guide addresses how an agency should strategically build or change a system to meet the needs and deliver positive … | Community Engagement | 2010 |
| Solutions Storytelling: Messaging to Mobilize Support for Children’s Issues | This report provides an overview of a research project to test the necessity and effectiveness of ‘solution stories’ (stories about … | Communication, Community Engagement | 2010 |
| Supporting School Success: What Child Welfare and Education Leaders Can Do | This chart focuses on how policies and practices implemented in response to Fostering Connections can provide the foundation for collaborative … | Community Engagement | 2010 |
| Striving for Excellence in Supervision (North Carolina) | This issue of Practice Notes highlights supervisory practices that can develop staff and improve their satisfaction and performance; and shows … | Supervision | 2010 |
| A Social Worker’s Tool Kit for Working with Immigrant Families – Healing the Damage: Trauma & Immigrant Families in the CW System | These guidelines are designed to assist child welfare and other community-based agencies working with children and families respond to the … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2010 |
| High Caseloads: How Do They Impact Delivery Of Health And Human Services? | This brief highlights recent studies that indicate high caseloads negatively impact both worker retention and service delivery outcomes, and are … | Workload | 2010 |
| Minnesota Local Workload Analytic Tool: User’s Reference Guide | The guide provides general user information and instructions for staff to follow as they navigate the Workload Analytic Tool and … | Workload | 2010 |
| Minnesota Workload Study Analytic Tool | This first spreadsheet was designed for counties to determine whether sufficient staffing resources exist, calculating resource need and workloads for … | Workload | 2010 |
| Minnesota Workload Study Measures | This second spreadsheet provides a structured means for using outcome and performance reports available to administrators, managers and supervisors in … | Workload | 2010 |
| Minnesota Local Workload Analytic Tool: Administrator’s Reference Guide & System Documentation | The guide provides general user information and instructions for staff with administrative privileges to follow when changes to the Workload … | Workload | 2010 |
| Engaging Parents: Innovative Approaches in Child Welfare | This document reviews innovative approaches that mitigate the obstacles to engaging parents in child welfare and includes recommendations on the … | Family-Centered Practice | 2010 |
| Growing and Sustaining Parent Engagement A Toolkit for Parents and Community Partners | The Toolkit is a quick and easy guide to help support and sustain parent engagement. It provides how to’s for … | Family-Centered Practice | 2010 |
| Family Involvement in the Improving Child Welfare Outcomes Through Systems of Care Initiative | This case study provides a comprehensive overview, lessons learned, and recommendations of how the principle of child, youth, and family … | Family-Centered Practice | 2010 |
| Positioning Public Child Welfare Guidance: Leadership Guidance | This document offers guidance on where leaders and their teams should spend their time and energy, how to assess and … | Leadership | 2010 |
| Leadership in the Improving Child Welfare Outcomes through Systems of Care Initiative | This brief is designed to enhance understanding of the role of leadership in bringing about systems change. Drawing on qualitative … | Leadership | 2010 |
| Positioning Public Child Welfare Guidance: Workforce Guidance | This chapter offers guidance that all agencies can use to attract and retain a highly competent workforce that has the … | Performance Management | 2010 |
| Achieving Diversity in the Nonprofit Workplace: A Step-by Step Guide | This guide provides non-profit organizations with a step-by-step approach – in seven phases – to achieving diversity and inclusiveness in … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2010 |
| Adoption Competency Curriculum – Compassion Fatigue: Secondary Traumatic Stress Disorder, Burnout, Vicarious Trauma – Trainer’s Guide | This curriculum includes trainer preparation materials for a module that teaches participants to identify causes and symptoms of compassion fatigue, … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2010 |
| Adoption Competency Curriculum – Compassion Fatigue: Secondary Traumatic Stress Disorder, Burnout, Vicarious Trauma -Participant’s Handouts | This curriculum includes participant handout materials for a module that teaches participants to identify causes and symptoms of compassion fatigue, … | Trauma-informed Practice | 2010 |
| Kansas Workforce Initiative Evidence Review: Secondary Traumatic Stress | Trauma-informed Practice | 2010 | |
| Accountability | This issue of A Closer Look, examines the process of “accountability” as a valuable tool for building and sustaining effective … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2010 |
| Better Data, Better Outcomes: Engaging Users in Performance Management | This paper explores some of the issues affecting data quality in child welfare case management systems and their underlying causes; … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2010 |
| Child Welfare Workforce Demographic Snapshot 2000-2010 | This document offers a general snapshot of frontline child welfare caseworkers in the Unites States based on findings of various … | Workforce Development Planning | 2010 |
| Kansas Child Welfare Comprehensive Workforce Plan | The report presents results of a state-wide assessment and preliminary plan to address agency and systems-level workforce issues. | Workforce Development Planning | 2010 |
| Positioning Public Child Welfare Guidance: Workforce | This guide is intended for child welfare agency teams charged by agency leadership with developing and maintaining a high-performing workforce … | Workforce Development Planning | 2010 |
| Systems of Care Strategic Planning Toolkit | This toolkit addresses key issues and processes involved in formulating a strategic plan to guide infrastructure development, discusses related activities, … | Change Implementation | 2010 |
| Taking Action: Keys to Using Data & Information | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2010 | |
| Working Together: The Paloma-Welleseley Guide to Participatory Program Evaluation | This guide provides a framework and process that support a participatory evaluation from beginning to end. The information and data … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2010 |
| Basics of Coaching: A Brief Review of Recent Literature | This literature review describes the definition and benefits of coaching, when coaching is an effective tool, the role of the … | Education/Professional Development | 2010 |
| Positioning Public Child Welfare Guidance: Workforce Guidance | This chapter offers guidance that all agencies can use to attract and retain a highly competent workforce that has the … | Education/Professional Development | 2010 |
| Training, Development, and Human Resources Toolkit | This toolkit addresses key issues and processes involved in building a system of care training and development program into the … | Education/Professional Development | 2010 |
| A New Key to Success: Guidelines for Effective Staff Development and Training Programs | This document is designed to provide basic information about the essential components for effective staff development and training. Such areas … | Education/Professional Development | 2010 |
| Listening to the Voices of Children in Foster Care: Youths Speak Out About Child Welfare Workforce Turnover and Selection | Recruitment and retention of an experienced workforce is a problem for most child welfare systems and service providers. High staff … | Workforce Development Planning | 2010 |
| Task Force on Native Americans in Social Work Education Final Report: Status of Native Americans in Social Work Higher Education | This report compiles the work of two projects launched by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) to move forward … | Tribal Child Welfare | 2010 |
| Alameda County Social Services Agency’s Child Welfare: On the Job Training Manual for Supervisors of New Employees | This guide offers supervisors a way to complement day-to-day supervision and contains (1) suggested guideline for practice assessment process; (2) … | Training | 2009 |
| Racial Equity Impact Assessment | This assessment is a systematic examination of how different racial and ethnic groups will likely be affected by a proposed … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2009 |
| Culture Card: A Guide to Build Cultural Awareness | This guide provides basic information to enhance cultural competence while providing services in American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities. Keywords: Native … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2009 |
| Child Welfare Social Worker Recruitment and Retention: Influential Factors and Promising Practices – Review of the Research | This paper summarizes numerous studies and literature from across the nation on the various factors that impact the readiness and … | Turnover | 2009 |
| Staying Power! A Supervisor’s Guide to Child Welfare Staff Retention | This supervisory curriculum is one of three resources and training components of the project, “Child Welfare Staff Recruitment and Retention … | Turnover | 2009 |
| Developing Models of Effective Child Welfare Staff Recruitment & Retention Training – Synthesis | This paper summaries the project activities of eight university programs from FY 2003-2008, to develop, field test, revise, implement, evaluate, … | Turnover | 2009 |
| Workplace Management and Child Welfare Policy, Planning, and Administration | This curriculum provides entry-level social workers in child welfare agencies in California with standardized workplace management training. The curriculum is … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2009 |
| Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL): Compassion Satisfaction & Compassion Fatigue | This test is designed to assess compassion fatigue or secondary/vicarious trauma, and consists of three subscales: Compassion Satisfaction, Burnout, and … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 2009 |
| Child Welfare Social Worker Recruitment and Retention: Influential Factors and Promising Practices – Review of the Research | This paper summarizes numerous studies and literature from across the nation on the various factors that impact the readiness and … | Recruitment | 2009 |
| Child Welfare Staff Recruitment & Retention An Evidence-Based Training Model: Recruitment Toolkit | This toolkit includes fliers, posters, brochures, a Recruitment Community PowerPoint Presentation, and two public service announcements designed to encourage interest … | Recruitment | 2009 |
| A Children’s Services Corps: Lessons from Teach for America for Building the Child Welfare System | This paper provides background information on Teach for America (TFA) successes, challenges, and impact through the years; examines lessons from … | Recruitment | 2009 |
| Child Welfare Staff Recruitment & Retention, An Evidence-Based Training Model: Selection Toolkit | This Selection Toolkit provides resources for screening, interviewing and hiring applicants for worker positions in public child welfare agencies; contains … | Screening and Selection | 2009 |
| A Lot to Lose: A Call to Rethink What Constitutes “Evidence” in Finding Social Interventions that Work | This paper argues that experimental methodology is a poor fit for judging the impact of social intervention program models; the … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2009 |
| Hand in Hand: How One of the Nation’s Largest Child Welfare Agencies Transformed Itself for Better Outcomes for Children (Los Angeles, CA) | This special report details the comprehensive service delivery system that has revolutionized child welfare in L.A. County, reducing reliance on … | System Reform | 2009 |
| Stories of Prevention in Los Angeles County: DCFS and Community Agencies Join Hands To Support Families and Children | This report chronicles the first year of the Prevention Initiative Demonstration Project initiative, and stories are organized around three inter-related … | Community Engagement | 2009 |
| Building a Model and Framework for Child Welfare Supervision | This report presents the findings from an extensive review of the most recent literature combined with interviews of experts in … | Supervision | 2009 |
| Supervision: The Key to Strengthening Practice in Child Welfare | This issue of Practice Notes addresses the wide-ranging tasks of supervision with a selection of articles that include: Q & … | Supervision | 2009 |
| Supervisor Developmental Planning & Support Toolkit | This toolkit is a key component of “Committed to Excellence through Supervision” Iowa DHS Child Welfare Supervisor Curriculum and utilized … | Supervision | 2009 |
| Agency Workforce Estimation: Simple Steps For Improving Child Safety And Permanency | This article briefly reviews research findings that link adequate staffing to improved child safety and well-being, and presents approaches for … | Workload | 2009 |
| The Importance of Family Engagement in Child Welfare Services | This paper discusses barriers caseworkers encounter in engaging families in child welfare services and identifies characteristics of families associated with … | Family-Centered Practice | 2009 |
| Engaging with Parents: Self-Study Guide | This guide presents a 21-hour self-study unit based on the principles of the Strengthening Families and Stronger Together programs that … | Family-Centered Practice | 2009 |
| Maryland Competencies for Child Welfare Workers | This chart provides a detailed list of core knowledge, skill and attitude competencies for Child Welfare Workers in Maryland. | Performance Management | 2009 |
| Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL): Compassion Satisfaction & Compassion Fatigue | Trauma-informed Practice | 2009 | |
| Child Welfare Practice & Data: Making the Connection | This issue of Practice Notes explores how using data can enhance child welfare practice. | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2009 |
| Continuous Quality Improvement: FRIENDS Online Learning Center Course | This training builds on the basics about Continuous Quality Improvement and what agencies and staff are doing towards creating a … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2009 |
| Front-Line Practice: Define, Assess, Plan, Implement and Monitor | This paper discusses the Define, Assess, Plan, Implement and Monitor (DAPIM) model as a continuous improvement tool that promotes strategic … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 2009 |
| Policy Matters: Setting and Measuring Benchmarks for State Policies | This paper puts forth an approach to setting benchmarks for a state policy agenda to encourage stronger family relationships. The … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2009 |
| Alameda County Social Services Agency’s Child Welfare: On the Job Training Manual for Supervisors of New Employees | This guide offers supervisors a way to complement day-to-day supervision and contains (1) suggested guideline for practice assessment process; (2) … | Education/Professional Development | 2009 |
| Addressing Disproportionality and Disparities in Child Welfare through Organizational Effectiveness Practice | “The purpose of this document is to present how APHSA’s Organizational Effectiveness Department proposes to work with agencies that are … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2009 |
| What We Have Been Gifted | This hour long documentary focuses on the lives and culture of the people that make up the Leech Lake Band … | Tribal Child Welfare | 2009 |
| Strengthening University/Agency Research Partnerships to Enhance Child Welfare Outcomes: A Toolkit for Building Research Partnerships | This document is designed to serve as a toolkit for developing child-welfare research capacities by setting the context within the … | University Partnerships | 2008 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Peer Supervision | This webpage provides resources that describe recent efforts to provide new child welfare workers with peer support, supervision, or mentoring … | Coaching | 2008 |
| Building Effective Training Systems for Child Welfare Agencies | This document provides an analytic framework for child welfare agencies or Tribal leadership teams to build a shared understanding of … | Training | 2008 |
| Facing Racism in a Diverse Nation: A guide for public dialogue and problem solving | This guide outlines how to facilitate meaningful dialogue to examine gaps among racial and ethnic groups and create institutional and … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2008 |
| NAPCWA Disproportionate Representation: Agency Diagnostic | This tool helps agencies examine disproportionality within their jurisdiction, identify gaps in the agency, target areas for improvements and highlight … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2008 |
| Best Practices Guide for Working with Families from Refugee Backgrounds in Child Welfare | This guide is an overview of selected topics that are relevant to providing culturally responsive services to families with refugee … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2008 |
| Tool-Kit – Competency-Based Retention Strategies | The tool-kit is designed for public-sector and non-profit child welfare administrators and Human Resources Management professionals who are trying to … | Turnover | 2008 |
| Preparing Facilitators for Retention-focused Design Teams: Participant Toolkit | This curriculum offers a 2-day workshop for trainers preparing individuals to become Design Team facilitators, and includes a trainer’s guide, … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2008 |
| The Sanctuary Model of Trauma Informed Organizational Change | This model guides an organization in the development of a culture with seven dominant characteristics (Nonviolence, Emotional Intelligence, Social Learning, … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2008 |
| Recruitment of Child Welfare Staff | This paper summarizes best practice approaches to recruitment and provides examples of some innovative approaches. | Recruitment | 2008 |
| Internal Reliability of the OCFS Competency-Based Interview for Hiring Child Welfare Caseworkers | This paper examines the reliability of the revised standardized screening process. Staff at the Child Welfare Training Institute became involved … | Screening and Selection | 2008 |
| Screening & Selection of Child Welfare Staff | This paper summarizes best practice approaches to screening and selection and provides examples of some innovative approaches. | Screening and Selection | 2008 |
| Evidence-Based Programs to Prevent Children From Entering & Remaining in the Child Welfare System: Benefits & Costs for Washington | This report estimates the monetary value of benefits Washington State would accrue if it implemented evidence-based prevention and intervention programs. … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2008 |
| Implementing Evidence-Based Practice in Treatment Foster Care: A Resource Guide | This resource guide highlights valuable information, references, resources, and tools for implementing Evidence-based Practices (EBPs) in Treatment Foster Care (TFC) … | Evidence-Based Practice | 2008 |
| Building Agency Capacity For Family Involvement in Child Welfare | This action brief, the first in the Systems of Care Family Involvement Series, addresses capacity building at the child welfare … | Community Engagement | 2008 |
| Building Systems of Care: A Primer for Child Welfare | Community Engagement | 2008 | |
| How to Talk About Government | This brief summary highlights the FrameWorks Institute’s research on public perceptions of government, key communication challenges, recommendations for reframing government, … | Communication, Community Engagement | 2008 |
| Adaptation Guidelines for Serving Latino Children and Families Affected by Trauma | Trauma-informed Practice | 2008 | |
| The Sanctuary Model of Trauma Informed Organizational Change | Trauma-informed Practice | 2008 | |
| The Study Of Workload In Child Protective And Child Welfare Services | This journal presents articles from a special issue that explores the measurement of child welfare workload and shares findings from … | Workload | 2008 |
| Adopting a Child Welfare Practice Framework | This paper on creating a practice framework is intended for child welfare professionals in leadership positions interested in grounding and … | Practice Models | 2008 |
| An Introduction to the Practice Model Framework: Working Document Series | This working document explains the process of developing a framework to help child welfare agencies and Tribal social service programs … | Practice Models | 2008 |
| Building Family Capacity For Family Involvement in Child Welfare | This action brief, the first in the Systems of Care Family Involvement Series, addresses capacity building at the child welfare … | Family-Centered Practice | 2008 |
| Leadership & Child Welfare Systems: The Role of State Legislators | This report discusses the importance of the Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSRs) as a tool for legislators in assessing … | Leadership | 2008 |
| Child Protective Specialist Appreciation Week Posters (NYC) | This set of posters from New York City’s Admistration for Children’s Services share messages of appreciation for Child Protective Specialists. | Community Engagement | 2008 |
| The Sanctuary Model of Trauma Informed Organizational Change | Trauma-informed Practice | 2008 | |
| Building Evaluation Capacity: Collecting & Using Data in Cross-project Evaluations (Guide II) | These guides addresses data collection, reporting, and use, examining ways to build data-collection capacity among projects; rationales, sources, and measures … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2008 |
| Building Leaderful Organizations: Succession Planning for Nonprofits | This publication presents alternative models of succession planning designed particularly for nonprofits: (1) Pursuing the agency’s mission and service goals … | Workforce Development Planning | 2008 |
| Guide to Developing Strategic Workforce Plans (Washington) | This guide is to explain the process of strategic workforce planning. This guide is designed as a practical tool for … | Workforce Development Planning | 2008 |
| Supervisors’ Guide to Developing Operational Workforce Plans (Washington) | The guide is designed as a practical tool to be used by supervisors and those who support supervisors with unit-level … | Workforce Development Planning | 2008 |
| The Caseworker’s Role in a Results-Oriented Culture (7 minute microlearning) | Designed for caseworkers, this 7-minute microlearning explores how workers can contribute to, and benefit from, practicing in a results-oriented culture. … | Community Engagement | 2008 |
| Workforce Planning Desk & Reference Guide (Alaska) | This guide is intended for managers and supervisors anticipating recruitment and retentions challenges, and to assist agencies in carefully preparing … | Workforce Development Planning | 2008 |
| Workforce Planning Model & Guide (California) | This guide was developed to assist State departments take a strategic approach to workforce planning as opposed a reactionary approach … | Workforce Development Planning | 2008 |
| Improving Employee Performance through Coaching (North Carolina) | This issue of Practice Notes describes the importance of child welfare supervisors, managers, and directors use of coaching to enhance … | Education/Professional Development | 2008 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Peer Supervision | This webpage provides resources that describe recent efforts to provide new child welfare workers with peer support, supervision, or mentoring … | Education/Professional Development | 2008 |
| Strengthening University/Agency Research Partnerships to Enhance Child Welfare Outcomes: A Toolkit for Building Research Partnerships | This document is designed to serve as a toolkit for developing child-welfare research capacities by setting the context within the … | Education/Professional Development | 2008 |
| Are We There Yet? A Communications Evaluation Guide | This guide explores current practices in evaluating communications as well as the challenges faced by today’s professionals. | Communication, Community Engagement, Leadership | 2008 |
| Institutional Racism and the Social Work Profession: A Call to Action | This document provides definitions of institutional/structural racism, clarifies how it is relevant to the social work profession, and details how … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2007 |
| Recruitment & Retention – Making a Difference in the Lives of Children & Families in Maine | This project by the University of Southern Maine’s Child Welfare Training Institute aims to increase and improve the recruitment and … | Turnover | 2007 |
| Staff Retention in Child and Family Services Workbook 1: The Role of Leaders in Staff Retention | The manual is a tool to enhance capacity for more effective child welfare recruitment, selection, training, and retention practice. The … | Retention | 2007 |
| Organizational Culture And Retention In Public Child Welfare Services Organizations | This paper presents a cross-sectional survey research design study focused on the organizational dynamics that affect retention in PCWS organizations … | Organizational Culture and Climate | 2007 |
| The RJP Tool Kit: A How-To Guide for Developing a Realistic Job Preview | This toolkit is designed for public-sector and non-profit child welfare administrators and Human Resources Management professionals looking for ways to … | Job Analysis and Position Requirements | 2007 |
| Staff Retention in Child & Family Services: Recruiting & Selecting the Right Staff (Wrkbk 6) | This workbook addresses recruiting and selecting the right staff, providing information on promising practices and tools for recruiting and selecting … | Recruitment | 2007 |
| Staff Retention in Child and Family Services Workbook 6: Recruiting and Selecting the Right Staff in Child and Family Services | This workbook in the series provides information on promising practices and tools for recruiting and selecting front line staff; includes … | Retention | 2007 |
| Staff Retention in Child and Family Services Workbook 2: The Practice of Retention-Focused Supervision | This workbook in the series provides research information and supervisory competencies for retaining effective staff, including self-assessment and planning tools. … | Supervision | 2007 |
| Staff Retention in Child and Family Services Workbook 3: Working with Differences | This workbook in the series provides understanding, methods and tools for tailoring supervision to the diverse characteristics, learning and behavioral … | Supervision | 2007 |
| Staff Retention in Child and Family Services Workbook 4: Communication Skills | This workbook in the series provides specific information, tools and activities to adapt communication skills to the supervisory relationship. | Communication, Supervision | 2007 |
| Staff Retention in Child and Family Services Workbook 5: The First Six Months | This workbook in the series provides a structure, methods and tools for orienting, supporting and training new staff during their … | Supervision | 2007 |
| Washington State Children’s Administration Workload Study | This report presents the results of a Workload Study which aims to understand the required practice activities of child welfare … | Workload | 2007 |
| Child Welfare Model of Practice (Iowa) | This model provides Iowa’s child welfare model of practice was developed to define, affirm, guide, reinforce and support DHS’s strength-based … | Practice Models | 2007 |
| Tool Kit – Identifying a Competency Model for the Jobs in your Organization | This tool guide Human Resources Manager and other key HR staff become familiar with the Competency Model and the Competency … | Performance Management | 2007 |
| Monitoring Child Welfare Programs – Performance Improvement in a CQI Context | This paper describes a continuous quality improvement (CQI) process in which the central elements are outcomes, baseline data, goal-setting, a … | Continuous Quality Improvement | 2007 |
| Tool Kit – Identifying a Competency Model for the Jobs in your Organization | This tool guide Human Resources Manager and other key HR staff become familiar with the Competency Model and the Competency … | Education/Professional Development | 2007 |
| The Four Agreements of Courageous Conversations | This document offers guidelines that help create the conditions for safe exploration and learning for all throughcourageous conversations about race. | Cultural Responsiveness | 2006 |
| The Retention of Public Child Welfare Workers | This curriculum addresses the issue of worker turnover in public child welfare agencies; presents knowledge from the existing literature on … | Turnover | 2006 |
| Training Series: Staff Retention in Child & Family Services (Workbook Curriculum) | This training series consist of six workbooks on the following subjects: the role of leaders in staff retention; the practice … | Turnover | 2006 |
| SMAART Manual: Strategies Matrix Approach to Recruitment & Retention Techniques | This manual is designed to enhance capacity for more effective child welfare recruitment, selection, training, and retention practice, by providing … | Turnover | 2006 |
| SMARRT Manual: Strategies Matrix Approach to Recruitment & Retention Techniques | This manual is designed to enhance capacity for more effective child welfare recruitment, selection, training, and retention practice, by providing … | Retention | 2006 |
| SMARRT Manual: Strategies Matrix Approach to Recruitment and Retention Techniques | This manual is designed to enhance capacity for more effective child welfare recruitment, selection, training, and retention practice, by providing … | Job Analysis and Position Requirements | 2006 |
| Resilient Child Welfare Worker Interviews | This document summarizes the interview responses of workers who were identified as “resilient” by their supervisors and administrators and includes … | Recruitment | 2006 |
| Alaska Statewide Workload Study | This paper describes a six month study in the state of Washington to determine reasonable workload standards for Office of … | Workload | 2006 |
| DCFS Training for New County Directors (Georgia): Workshop No.1 – Leadership (Trainer’s Guide) | This workshop guide identifies and explores the leadership qualities that will contribute to the success of new County Directors, enhances … | Workload | 2006 |
| DFCS Training for New County Directors (Georgia): Workshop No. 2 – Program & Workload Management (Trainer’s Guide) | This workshop guide introduces new County Directors to their new roles and responsibilities, and how key Outcome Measures and Results … | Workload | 2006 |
| New York State Child Welfare Workload Study | This study is the first child welfare workload study that addresses the work of voluntary agency staff, in addition to … | Workload | 2006 |
| Practice Model (Washington, D.C.) | This Practice Model for the DC Child and Family Services Agency describes the primary goals, core principles and values, leadership … | Practice Models | 2006 |
| Leadership Resources with PowerPoints (Georgia) | This website provides presentations on leadership competencies to include influencing change, developing leaders, managing conflict, inspiring and influencing others. | Leadership | 2006 |
| DCFS Training for New County Directors (Georgia): Workshop No. 3 – Personnel Management (Trainer’s Guide) | This workshop guide reinforces and builds on participants’ entry abilities, introduces how current policies relate to County Directors and personnel … | Leadership | 2006 |
| DCFS Training for New County Directors (Georgia): Workshop No. 2 – Program & Workload Management (Trainer’s Guide) | This workshop guide reinforces and builds on participants’ entry abilities, introduces how current policies relate to County Directors and personnel … | Leadership | 2006 |
| DCFS Training for New County Directors (Georgia): Workshop No. 1 – Leadership (Participant’s Guide) | This workshop guide identifies and explores the leadership qualities that contribute to success as a County Director, and includes: The … | Leadership | 2006 |
| Child Welfare Workforce: Implications for the Private Nonprofit Sector | This paper provides recommendations of actions that private, public, and academic organizations can undertake individually and collaboratively to create state … | Workforce Development Planning | 2006 |
| Components of an Effective Child Workforce to Improve Outcomes For Children and Families: What Does the Research Tell Us? | Workforce Development Planning | 2006 | |
| Self-Assessment Workbook for Building a Stable Quality Child Welfare Workforce | This workbook provides guidance to child welfare administrators on innovative human resource management policies and practices. The workbook allows administrators … | Workforce Development Planning | 2006 |
| Toward a High Quality Child Welfare Workforce: Six Doable Steps | This paper describes a number of promising practices used across the country to improve the working conditions and quality of … | Workforce Development Planning | 2006 |
| Restoring Resiliency Response (RRR)© Model | A model designed to help alleviate the stress and anxiety associated with the secondary traumatic stress issues child protection workers … | Trauma-informed Practice, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2006 |
| Knowing Who You Are: Helping Youth in Care Develop Their Racial and Ethnic Identity – Facilitator Guide | This guide contains information about the role of the facilitator, things to think about before viewing the video, and group … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2005 |
| Knowing Who You Are: Helping Youth in Care Develop Their Racial and Ethnic Identity – Viewer Guide | This guide contains definitions and descriptions related to racial and ethnic identity, background information about the Knowing Who You Are … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2005 |
| Knowing Who You Are: Helping Youth in Care Develop Their Racial and Ethnic Identity | This video provides the catalyst for inspiring courageous conversations and ultimately helping youth in care develop a healthy perspective and … | Cultural Responsiveness | 2005 |
| Building a Multi-Ethnic, Inclusive & Antiracist Organization | This tool offers resources that support a transformational process to become a more inclusive antiracist and multiracial organization. | Advancing Racial Equity | 2005 |
| Retention Planning to Reduce Workforce Turnover in New York State’s Public Child Welfare Systems: Developing Knowledge, Lessons Learned, and Emergent Priorities | This university-based project in New York State aims to improve recruitment and retention of the child welfare workforce through the … | Turnover | 2005 |
| Factors Influencing Retention of Child Welfare Staff: A Systematic Review of Research | This paper provides a systematic review of research and outcomes studies to examine “what works” in regard to recruitment and … | Turnover | 2005 |
| Child Welfare Caseworker Competency Based Screening & Selection Training Curriculum | This skills-based curriculum is designed to support supervisors in the process of screening and selecting new caseworkers. | Screening and Selection | 2005 |
| Effective Succession Strategies | vThis document describes common characteristics of effective succession planning efforts and strategies that promote effective succession planning. | Workforce Development Planning | 2005 |
| Succession Planning Process | This document details the six-step process for effective succession planning and several factors typically found in successful succession planning initiatives. | Workforce Development Planning | 2005 |
| Maximizing Return on Your Training Investment: A Reference Guide for Managers | This guide outlines the four primary components of a comprehensive system: design, delivery, transfer, and evaluation, and, for each component, … | Training | 2004 |
| Theory of Change: A Practical Tool for Action, Results and Learning | This manual, created for the Casey Foundation’s Making Connections initiative, defines theory of change using Casey’s impact, influence and leverage … | Change Implementation | 2004 |
| Logic Model Development Guide: W.K. Kellogg Foundation | This guide focuses on the development and use of the program logic model and provides an orientation to the underlying … | Change Implementation | 2004 |
| Child Abuse & Neglect User Manual Series: Supervising Child Protective Services Caseworkers | This manual provides the foundation for effective supervisory practice in child protective services, describes the roles and responsibilities of the … | Supervision | 2004 |
| Maximizing Return on Your Training Investment: A Reference Guide for Managers | This guide outlines the four primary components of a comprehensive system: design, delivery, transfer, and evaluation, and, for each component, … | Education/Professional Development | 2004 |
| Dismantling Racism: A Resource Book: For Social Change Groups | This resource book is a compilation of materials designed to supplement a Dismantling Racism workshop, which supports organizations to build … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2003 |
| Discipline and Development: A Meta-Analysis of Public Perceptions of Parents, Parenting, Child Development and Child Abuse | This report reviews research on child abuse, as well as existing publicly available opinion research regarding parenting, child development, child … | Community Engagement | 2003 |
| Finding Common Ground: A Guide for Child Welfare Agencies Working with Communities of Faith | This guide outlines the importance of building effective partnerships with communities of faith for recruiting and supporting foster and adoptive … | Community Engagement | 2003 |
| How the News Frames Child Maltreatment: Unintended Consequences | This document summarizes some of the major patterns found in 120 news articles about child maltreatment – the key narratives, … | Community Engagement | 2003 |
| Two Cognitive Obstacles to Preventing Child Abuse: The “Other-Mind” Mistake and the “Family Bubble” | A report on a series of cognitive interviews that identifies two common mistakes in thinking that the public makes about … | Community Engagement | 2003 |
| Strategic Workforce Planning Manual – Fairfax, Virginia | This manual defines fundamental steps to develop and implement a workforce plan, provides information and processes that can be applied … | Workforce Development Planning | 2003 |
| HHS Could Play a Greater Role in Helping Child Welfare Agencies Recruit and Retain Staff | This report identifies (1) the challenges child welfare agencies face in recruiting and retaining child welfare workers and supervisors, (2) … | Education/Professional Development, Job Analysis and Position Requirements, Leadership, Performance Management, Recruitment, Recruitment and Selection, Retention, Screening and Selection, Supervision, Training, Turnover, University Partnerships, Work Conditions and Benefits | 2003 |
| Competencies for Trainers | This document provides a generic list of competencies and skills for trainers. Core Competencies include: Competency-Based Inservice Training; Adult Learning; … | Training | 2002 |
| Race Matters: Unequal Opportunity within the Child Welfare System | This brief explains why equal opportunity is important in the U.S. child welfare system, shows the consequences of unintended actions … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2002 |
| 3 Tools for Getting Started with the Race Matters Toolkit | This paper introduces three simple tools for starting racial equity work off right within your organization or others. | Advancing Racial Equity | 2002 |
| Race Matters: Organizational Self-Assessment | This tool contains a questionnaire and next steps that help raise organizational awareness, start focused conversations, contribute to the development … | Disproportionality & Disparities | 2002 |
| Caseload Size in Best Practice: Literature Review | This literature review examines the existing research related to casework size and outcomes for children in the child welfare system. | Workload | 2002 |
| Workforce Planning Resource Guide for Public Sector Human Resource Professionals | This guide focuses on how workforce planning can meet the unique needs of public sector HR professionals at any level … | Change Implementation | 2002 |
| Assessing Organizational Racism | This organizational assessment offers a sampling of questions designed to help predominately white organizations and multi-racial organizations of white people … | Advancing Racial Equity | 2001 |
| Everything You Wanted to Know About Logic Models but Were Afraid to Ask | This paper provides a basic overview of logic models – what they are, their benefits and suggestions for level of … | Change Implementation | 1999 |
| Compassion Satisfaction/Fatigue Self-Test for Helpers | This self -test helps users estimate their compassion status, which includes risk of burnout, compassion fatigue and satisfaction with helping … | Work Conditions and Benefits | 1998 |
| Compassion Satisfaction/Fatigue Self-Test for Helpers | Trauma-informed Practice | 1998 | |
| White Privilege Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh | This document lists personal examples of unearned advantage and encourages individuals to reflect on and recognize their own unearned advantages … | Cultural Responsiveness | 1988 |
| Persuasive Storytelling: Discover the power of your personal story | This guide provides tools to support individuals in telling their personal stories. | Communication, Community Engagement, Leadership | |
| Word Force Messaging Worksheet | This worksheet is a tool to help identify messages for an op-ed that support one’s long term narrative goals. | Communication, Community Engagement, Leadership | |
| Child Welfare Training Toolkit | NCSACW developed the Child Welfare Training Toolkit to educate child welfare workers about substance use and co-occurring disorders among families … | Education/Professional Development, Family-Centered Practice, Practice Models, Practice Supports | |
| Employee Fit | An overview of, compatibility between individuals and organizations, otherwise known as employee fit. | Recruitment, Recruitment and Selection, Screening and Selection | |
| Onboarding | The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians worked with the QIC-WD to develop an onboarding program. This video highlights the experience … | Advancing Racial Equity, Cultural Responsiveness, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, Tribal Child Welfare, Tribal Sovereignty, Vision, Mission, and Values, Work Conditions and Benefits | |
| The Challenge of Measuring Turnover in Child Welfare | To address the challenge of turnover in child welfare it is important to understand why people leave, when they leave, … | Data-Driven Decision Making, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | |
| Types of Turnover | Megan Paul, QIC-WD Workforce Lead, describes three different ways of looking at turnover: internal vs. external, voluntary vs. involuntary, and … | Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | |
| 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 … | Recruitment and Selection, Retention, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | |
| The Importance of Supporting Supervisors | Supervision is an important element of the child welfare workforce. Supervisors from across the QIC-WD sites discuss what they need … | Performance Improvement, Retention, Supervision, Work Conditions and Benefits, Workload | |
| Organizational Change in Action | The Division of Milwaukee Child Protective Services worked with the QIC-WD to address organizational culture and climate. This video highlights … | Continuous Quality Improvement, Organizational Culture and Climate, Vision, Mission, and Values, Work Conditions and Benefits | |
| Coach Ohio: A Supportive Supervision and Resiliency Intervention | The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services partnered with select counties to implement a supportive supervision and resiliency intervention. … | Burnout, Organizational Culture and Climate, Performance Improvement, Retention, Supervision, Turnover, Vision, Mission, and Values, Work Conditions and Benefits | |
| Coping with Secondary Traumatic Stress | This video features child welfare workers and supervisors discussing the coping skills they use to address secondary traumatic stress (STS). | Burnout, Retention, Work Conditions and Benefits | |
| Impact of Secondary Traumatic Stress on the Child Welfare Workforce | This video features child welfare workers and supervisors discussing how work-related secondary traumatic stress (STS) impacts them personally and professionally. | Burnout, Retention, Supervision, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | |
| Pivoting During the Pandemic | This video features workers, supervisors, and administrators discussing the challenges they faced during the Covid-19 pandemic and some of changes … | Supervision, Work Conditions and Benefits, Worker Safety, Workload | |
| 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 … | Performance Improvement, Recruitment, Recruitment and Selection, Retention, Supervision, Work Conditions and Benefits, Workload | |
| The Importance of Communication When Implementing Workforce Changes | “Communication is the key to success…” Listen to QIC-WD site representatives from Washington, Louisiana, Virginia, and Milwaukee, WI talk about … | Organizational Culture and Climate | |
| How does Organizational Culture and Climate Impact the Child Welfare Workforce? | In this video, organizational culture and climate expert Dr. Tony Hemmelgarn describes the impact of organizational social context on child … | Organizational Culture and Climate | |
| Turnover v. Intent to Leave | This video captures QIC-WD evaluation team members discussing turnover data. They talk candidly about measures of “intent to leave” and … | Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | |
| Connecting HR and Child Welfare Data | Child welfare and human resources (HR) data need to be connected to answer important workforce questions. This video highlights some … | Change Implementation, Continuous Quality Improvement, Data-Driven Decision Making, Retention, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | |
| The Critical Role of Child Welfare Workers | “Social workers are the unsung heroes…” This video highlights the critical role that child welfare workers play on the frontlines … | Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits, Worker Safety, Workload | |
| 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. | Recruitment, Recruitment and Selection, Retention, Work Conditions and Benefits, Workforce Development Planning, Workload | |
| 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 … | Burnout, Job Analysis and Position Requirements, Recruitment and Selection, Retention, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | |
| Managing Your Personal Life During COVID-19 | Work and personal relationships are essential to your well-being during this pandemic. During a pandemic your relationships may be challenged. … | Burnout, Work Conditions and Benefits, Worker Safety | |
| Managing Stress while Working from Home during the Pandemic: Strategies for Self-Care | Stress is often driven by feeling a lack of control over things you once had control over. This lack of … | Burnout, Work Conditions and Benefits, Worker Safety | |
| What we know about Pandemics and the Stress they Cause | This blog post explains what a pandemic is and the stress that it causes. To learn more, watch this 25-minute … | Burnout, Work Conditions and Benefits | |
| Building Resilience and Optimism – The Experience of a Nebraska Child and Family Services Specialist | In this video, Gage Latscha, a Child and Family Services Specialist (CFSS) within the state of Nebraska, shares his personal … | Retention, Work Conditions and Benefits | |
| Washington State is Using Telework to Strengthen the Child Welfare Workforce | The Washington Department of Children, Youth and Families is implementing telework to strengthen their child welfare workforce. This video highlights … | Burnout, Performance Improvement, Retention, Supervision, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits, Workload | |
| Nebraska Is Building a Resilient Workforce | The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services’ Children and Family Services (CFS) partnered with the QIC-WD to strengthen its … | Burnout, Retention, Work Conditions and Benefits | |
| QIC-WD Three Keys to Implementation | According to QIC-WD sites the keys to good implementation are to slow down, gain buy-in, and build a strong implementation … | Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Continuous Quality Improvement, Workforce Development Planning | |
| QIC-WD Workforce Interventions | This video describes common challenges and the important role workers had in selecting a workforce intervention to test as part … | Burnout, Organizational Culture and Climate, Recruitment, Recruitment and Selection, Retention, Supervision, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits, Workload | |
| Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians’ journey to become a QIC-WD Site | A summary of the inception of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) Family Safety Program and the role of … | Retention, Tribal Child Welfare, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | |
| System Transformation Through Community Leadership: Strategies for building effective partnerships with Black and Brown communities | Chapin Hall has compiled key findings into five system transformation equity bulletins and a toolkit to make lessons from the … | Adaptive Leadership, Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, Evidence-Based Practice, Family-Centered Practice, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Practice Supports, System Reform | |
| Cultural Humility Strategies | (60 minutes) Supervisors have a key role to play in promoting cultural responsiveness and leveraging diversity. This one hour module … | Communication, Cultural Responsiveness, Inclusivity/Racial Equity | |
| Dealing With the Effects of Secondary Trauma | (4 minutes) Secondary trauma is a predictable and frequent occurrence in child welfare. This short module, just under four minutes … | Trauma-informed Practice | |
| Education and Professional Preparation | (5 minutes) People who come to the job with the right educational preparation and skills are more likely to succeed, … | Education/Professional Development | |
| Introduction to Leadership and Workforce Development | This course is a series of three modules that together provide research-based foundational knowledge, language, frameworks, and approaches to strengthen … | Leadership, Supervision | |
| Leadership Foundations | This leadership module first explores different leadership styles, including strengths-based, adaptive, transformational, and daring leadership. These leadership styles have in … | Adaptive Leadership, Change Implementation, Communication, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate | |
| State-Tribal Partnerships: Coaching to ICWA Compliance | Provides resources for state and tribal cofacilitators to conduct a three-day in-person training designed to build collective understanding of tribal … | Coaching, Education/Professional Development, Tribal Child Welfare | |
| Coaching in Child Welfare | Understand the role of coaching in supporting workers, including coaching functions, effectiveness, models, and strategies. | Coaching, Education/Professional Development | |
| Supporting Quality Contacts Through Supervisor-Worker Coaching | Explore coaching steps and tips supervisors can use to help workers strengthen skills and meet goals. Offers one-on-one coaching techniques … | Coaching, Education/Professional Development | |
| Building Resilience for Child Welfare Professionals | Review this webinar to hear about ways to build resilience for child welfare professionals. Learn more about tools and resources … | Burnout, Retention, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | |
| National Child Traumatic Stress Network Policy Makers | NCTSN has collaborated with policy makers since their inception by Congress in 2000. Through this collection of resources, policy makers … | Policy Impact, Practice Supports, Trauma-informed Practice | |
| Anti-Racist Organizational Development | NJJN’s membership community has committed to engaging in self-analyses to reflect on how our organizations can better undo the systemic … | Advancing Racial Equity, Cultural Responsiveness, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Organizational Culture and Climate, Practice Models, Practice Supports, Vision, Mission, and Values | |
| ACEs and Resiliency Strategy Map | A presentation detailing an ACEs Strategy Map for how faith-based communities can be positive forces for minimizing and addressing trauma. … | Practice Models, Practice Supports, Prevention/Early Intervention, Trauma-informed Practice | |
| Trauma-Informed Care Implementation Resource Center | The Trauma-Informed Care Implementation Resource Center provides resources to guide health care organizations and schools in becoming trauma-informed. Some topics … | Policy Impact, Practice Models, Practice Supports, Trauma-informed Practice | |
| Crossnore Communities for Children | Crossnore Communities for Children is an organization that exists to help children who have experienced abuse or trauma find safe … | Community Engagement | |
| Leadership Academy Implementation Guide | NCWWI’s Leadership Academy is designed to build and support the critical leadership skills child welfare supervisors, managers, and directors need to … | Adaptive Leadership, Leadership, Training | |
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| Building Collaborative Capacity Series | Developed by NCSACW to provide states and communities with strategies for creating cross-systems collaborative teams, communication protocols, and practice innovations. | ||
| Engaging Parents and Youths with Lived Experience | NCSACW prepared this document to outline key strategies collaboratives should consider when recruiting and engaging adults and youth with lived … | ||
| Evaluating Family Engagement in Child Welfare | Provides an overview of key issues encountered when evaluating a family engagement program or practice. | ||
| A Tool for Transformative Family Engagement: A Commentary on the Family Engagement Playbook | A collection of promising research-based approaches to strengthen individual competencies, interpersonal relationships, and organizational structures that build capacity for meaningful … | ||
| Strategic Planning in Child Welfare: Strategies for Meaningful Youth, Family, and Other Partner Engagement | This brief focuses largely on engaging families and youth but also addresses working with Tribes, courts, and community partners in … | ||
| Prioritizing Youth Voice: The Importance of Authentic Youth Engagement in Case Planning | This bulletin outlines the importance of youth engagement and provides caseworkers with key concepts and tangible strategies to apply to … |