Child Welfare News and Information from the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute

• 4 Questions to Move Knowledge to Action
• Stabilizing Children’s Lives: Insights for research & action
• Your Guide to Holding Steady in Under 4 Minutes

Community Context

• Creating a Modern & Responsive Health & Human Services System
• Family Engagement: Partnering With Families to Improve Child Welfare Outcomes
• Federal Government Expands Criminal Database Access for Indian tribes
• Great Resource by FrameWorks Institute on Recognizing Communication Challenges of Human Services Field
• What Does “Developing Families” Mean & How Can Your Staff be Supported?

Data-Driven Decision Making and Continuous Quality Improvement

• Child Protection Inquiries: What are they teaching us?
• How Good is your Decision Making?
• New Data Will Benefit Foster Children & Adoptive Families

Education and Professional Preparation

• Real Stories Project: A New Frontier for Child Welfare in Rural North Dakota

Evidence-based and Trauma-informed Practice

• Effective Strategies in Addressing Trauma in Children of Incarcerated Parents
• Evidence-Based Practice Resources From Gateway
• Healing Traumatized Children Drives Professor’s Work
• Synthesis of Current Competency-based Workforce Development Approaches
• The State of Evidence-based Parenting Interventions for Parents who are Substance-involved

Incentives and Work Conditions

• 1-pager Examines How Perceptions of Respect Impact Child Welfare Workers’ Attitudes Toward Their Jobs
• Being as Kind to Yourself as you are to Other People
• Don’t Just Be Good to Others, Be Good to YOU, too
• The Evolution Of Employee Motivation Methods: Carrots, Sticks & Being Nice Aren’t Sustainable
• The Self-Care Revolution
• Understanding the Impact of Job Demands & Job Control on Work Outcomes
• What Self-Care Is and What It Isn’t

Leadership and Management

• Just Wrapped Up Our Time & Presentations at the Alliance Senior Leadership Conference
• Ways to Improve Negotiations & Better Manage Conflict at the Office

Professional Development and Training

• Professional Development & Training Resources for the Child Welfare Workforce

Retention

• Costing Out Turnover In Child Welfare
• Methods To Improve Child Welfare Workforce Retention
• Turnover in Child Welfare is 6X the National Average
• Why the Workforce Matters Highlights High Costs Associated With Caseworker Turnover

Supervision and Performance Management

• NCWWI WDF Resources Related To Supervision & Performance Management

Workforce Development Planning Process

• 3 NEW Workforce Development Quickbits: Dealing with the Effects of Secondary Trauma; Creating a Supportive Culture & Selecting the Best
• Join Us for 1 or All 4 of Our Mini-Webinar Series Aimed at Helping You Efficiently Locate & Utilize NCWWI Tools. The First in the Series is Tuesday, March 21: Finding the Right eResources on MyNCWWI. Save Your Seat
• Let’s Improve Child Welfare Outcomes: The Workforce Matters Briefing
• NEW Workforce Planning & Assessment Toolkit Guides Teams Through the Workforce Development Framework (WDF) Planning Process
• NJ DCF’s Annual Workforce Report is Chock Full of Strategies for Workforce Development! and it’s Structured Around NCWWI’s Workforce Development Framework’s 10 Components
• Real Stories Project: The Missouri Children’s Division
• View Our Real Stories Project That Shares Firsthand Accounts of the Impact of Child Welfare Workforce Development
• Webinar Designed to Help You Begin Using the NEW Workforce Development Planning & Assessment Toolkit
• Working Thru Workforce Development Planning & Assessment Tool Kit W/California County Teams at UC Davis Northern California Training Academy

Child Welfare and Social Work Practice

• 7 Lessons about Finding the Work You Were Meant To Do
• 8 Things to Remember about Child Development
• 24 Mobile Apps for the Child Welfare Workforce
• Child Interviewing 2017: Update on Research and Practice
• Former Child of Foster Care Works to Fix the System
• Innovative Program Reduces the Number Of Children In Foster Care
• Preliminary Estimates of AFCARS Data for FY 2015
• Report Reveals Foster Youth’s Top Priorities
• Social Work Icon Dorothy Height will be Featured on a US Postage Stamp this Year