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RESOURCE COLLECTION
Celebrate Child Welfare Workforce Development Month!
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Child Welfare Workforce Development Month is an opportunity for professionals to take a moment to celebrate their achievements and connect with colleagues and for child welfare leaders to renew their commitment to support and recognize their workforce.
To successfully deliver high-quality services to children and families, child welfare professionals need to feel that their safety and well-being are supported. Child welfare agencies should seek ways to reduce turnover by addressing staff stressors, improving job satisfaction, and undertaking other retention efforts.
In the spirit of this month-long celebration, we’ve curated the following resource collection covering topics such as workload management, leadership, racial equity, and well-being. Take a moment this month to share these resources with colleagues and others interested in child welfare.
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Child Welfare Information Gateway Publication |
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Caseload and Workload Management
Summarizes caseload and workload issues to help state child welfare managers, administrators, and others learn how to improve caseload and workload situations in their agencies.
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Child Welfare Information Gateway Resource Collections and Podcast Episode
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Workforce
Describes workforce development and provides insights into a range of workforce- related topics. This collection of resources is intended for child welfare professionals but recognizes that interaction with other systems is essential to support child protection and maltreatment prevention.
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Well-Being of the Workforce
Discusses workforce safety, job satisfaction, self-care, turnover, and improving retention.
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Trauma-Informed Practice in Child Welfare
Offers trauma resources for caseworkers, caregivers, and families that focus on understanding and treating trauma, training, and building trauma-informed child welfare systems.
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Partner Resources
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Quality Improvement Center-Workforce Development
Provides information on the current state of trends and research on workforce development and generates new knowledge about effective strategies to improve outcomes.
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National Child Welfare Workforce Institute: Learning and Living Leadership Tool Kit
Helps child welfare leaders assess their strengths and areas for development and guides them in writing a competency-based leadership development plan with activities to meet their needs, interests, learning style, time constraints, and desired proficiency level (executive, manager, supervisor, or caseworker).
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National Child Welfare Workforce Institute: "Building Resilience for Child Welfare Professionals" [Webinar]
Explores ways child welfare professionals can build resilience, including tools and resources to help them and their clients apply practical approaches for coping with personal and workplace stress.
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AdoptUSKids: Minority Professional Leadership Development Program
Describes a 12-month program for emerging minority leaders working in child welfare that includes hands-on experience, exposure to national experts, and mentorship opportunities.
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Capacity Building Center for Tribes: "Healing and Joy: Tools to Address Burnout and Increase Wellness in Tribal Child Welfare" [Webinar]
Presents information about sharing and practicing self-care techniques, reflexive breathing, icebreakers, team-building exercises, and online resources.
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Child Welfare Capacity Building Collaborative: "Change and Implementation in Practice Overview" [Video]
Provides key steps, tasks, and concepts to support your agency’s change initiatives.
Register For the Child Welfare Virtual Expo!
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Reserve your virtual seat for the Capacity Building Center for States Child Welfare Virtual Expo on September 21, 2023.
Learn more about how your agency can support and strengthen the workforce.
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Outreach Tools
Use these messages to raise awareness all month long!
- As communities become more culturally and linguistically diverse, #childwelfare professionals are called to do more to reduce disparities in access and use of important social #services. By developing cultural competency, the #CwWorkforce is better prepared to work effectively in these cross-cultural situations. #WorkDevMonth
https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/systemwide/cultural/agencypractice/
- Tune in to the Child Welfare Information Gateway #podcast for a conversation with the Children’s Bureau’s Associate Commissioner Aysha E. Schomburg, J.D. Hear her discuss her priorities, goals, and vision for a more equitable #childwelfare system. #WorkDevMonth
https://www.childwelfare.gov/more-tools-resources/podcast/episode-74/
- By building a strong and healthy #CwWorkforce, #childwelfare organizations can help to combat stressors, improve job satisfaction, retain workers, and reduce turnover. #WorkDevMonth
https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/management/workforce/workforcewellbeing/
- #Childwelfare professionals are susceptible to burnout and secondary traumatic stress. Learn how peer support networks can assist the #CwWorkforce with healing and self-care. #WorkDevMonth
https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/management/workforce/workforcewellbeing/selfcare/
- Effective caseload and workload management in the #CwWorkforce allows caseworkers to do their jobs better, which can result in improved safety, permanency, and #wellbeing outcomes for children and youth. #WorkDevMonth
https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/case-work-management/
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