October 2023Vol. 24, No. 8QIC-WD Announces Key Findings From Eight Child Welfare Workforce Interventions
The September issue of the Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development (QIC-WD) newsletter highlights the findings from eight multi-year projects conducted to address workforce challenges and improve worker performance, well-being, and retention. QIC-WD project team members worked closely with local staff from public child welfare programs in eight locations across the United States to design, implement, and study jurisdiction-specific interventions based on organizational needs. A list of project sites and their intervention focus follows:
- Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Family Safety Program - Onboarding Program
- Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services - Frontline Job Redesign
- Division of Milwaukee Child Protective Services - Organizational Change Process
- Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services - Addressing Work-Related Traumatic Stress
- Ohio Department of Job and Family Services - Supportive Supervision and Resiliency
- Oklahoma Department of Human Services - Competency-Based Personnel Selection
- Virginia Department of Social Services - Case-Supportive Technology
- Washington Department of Children, Youth & Families - Telework
Each project page linked above includes:
- Short project highlight video(s)
- A hyperlinked list of site-specific resources, which include key findings, guidance documents, logic models, implementation tools, and summaries of the intervention, evaluation, implementation, and theory of change
- A 2-page site profile summary, which provides an overview of each site’s workforce, its challenges retaining child welfare workers, and the intervention selected to strengthen the workforce
- Project updates with links to site-specific QIC-WD blog posts
To learn more about the QIC-WD and each project, visit the QIC-WD website.