Child Welfare Workforce
You are in the Child Welfare Workforce section of the Casey Foundation Knowledge Center, which offers resources that are either published or funded by the Casey Foundation. Resources address strengthening the workers who support children in the child welfare system.
See also Our Work: Child Welfare/Permanence, an overview of Casey's investment in this issue.
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Close-up with Harry Spence
2006
This document is an interview with Harry Spence, the Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Social Services. It documents, in question and answer format, the changes toward permanence and other department goals for a more humane child welfare system.
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Factors Influencing Retention of Child Welfare Staff: A Systematic Review of Research: A Report from the Insitute for the Advancement of Social Work Research
2005
This report analyzes evidence-based findings related to the recruitment and retention of child welfare staff. It sets the context for the systematic review, presents the findings, identifies the implications of the research, and offers some recommendations.
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Factors Influencing Retention of Child Welfare Staff: A Systematic Review of Research-Executive Summary
2005
This publication identifies effective recruitment and retention strategies that child welfare agencies can implement to address important problems. This publication is the first systematic review of its kind that more fully examines “what works” in regard to recruitment and retention of child welfare staff.
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AdvoCasey: Spring 2004, Volume 6, Number 1
2004
This issue explores the workforce crisis plaguing children and family services systems nationwide. Highlights of this issue include: the staffing challenge facing early child care, juvenile justice, and foster care; “just-in-time” hiring processes; pay-for-performance contracts; and personnel reforms.
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Child Welfare Summit: Looking to the Future - An Examination of the State of Child Welfare and Recommendations for Action
2003
This report summarizes the learnings from the 2002 Child Welfare Summit. The Summit focused on six consistent and critical themes including outcomes, accountability, the quality of the child welfare workforce, community partnerships, and federal financing.
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