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Workforce Analytics Dashboards: Bridging the Gap between HR and Child Welfare

admin — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 17:05:07 +0000

Workforce Analytics Dashboards: Bridging the Gap between HR and Child Welfare

This video highlights how data visualization tools can help child welfare agencies better utilize their workforce data.

Spotlight on Washington State: Using Dashboards to Understand Workforce Challenges

admin — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 14:24:03 +0000

Spotlight on Washington State: Using Dashboards to Understand Workforce Challenges

Data dashboards are useful tools for child welfare agencies to use workforce data to make decisions, as highlighted by the QIC-WD’s work with Washington State.

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Child Welfare in Rural Communities

admin — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 18:24:17 +0000

Child Welfare in Rural Communities

This video highlights some of the challenges that are specific to recruiting, retaining, and managing child welfare workers in rural communities.

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The Challenge of Measuring Turnover in Child Welfare

admin — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 19:41:05 +0000

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, and what we know about the workforce. This video explores what agencies can do to better measure and understand turnover.

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Types of Turnover

admin — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 15:21:21 +0000

Types of Turnover

Megan Paul, QIC-WD Workforce Lead, describes three different ways of looking at turnover: internal vs. external, voluntary vs. involuntary, and functional vs. dysfunctional.

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Standardized Competency-based Hiring Process

admin — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 00:18:24 +0000

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 how they created their new competency-based selection process and shares the experiences of staff and leaders who’ve participated in the new process.

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Impact of Secondary Traumatic Stress on the Child Welfare Workforce

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 18:50:59 +0000

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.

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Turnover v. Intent to Leave

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 03:21:06 +0000

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 what child welfare workers ultimately do, such as change jobs, get promoted, or leave the child welfare agency. The team also shares what the QIC-WD is doing to capture and measure these workforce decisions.

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Connecting HR and Child Welfare Data

admin — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 20:31:15 +0000

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 of the common challenges when trying to link the two data sets and how the QIC-WD is overcoming those challenges.

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The Critical Role of Child Welfare Workers

admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 00:24:52 +0000

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 - they manage threats and work everyday to keep children safe.

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Nebraska Is Building a Resilient Workforce

admin — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 14:39:31 +0000

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 child welfare workforce. The team created CFS Strong to address secondary traumatic stress (STS). This video features CFS staff discussing how STS impacts their job and how CFS Strong is designed to address it. The QIC-WD is studying this intervention and will report on evaluation results in the future.

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QIC-WD Workforce Interventions

admin — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 21:35:27 +0000

QIC-WD Workforce Interventions

This video describes common challenges and the important role workers had in selecting a workforce intervention to test as part of the QIC-WD project. It also summarizes the interventions selected to address a variety of workforce strategies.

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Why the Ohio DJFS wants to be part of the QIC-WD

admin — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:56:38 +0000

Why the Ohio DJFS wants to be part of the QIC-WD

A representative of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) discusses concerns about child welfare worker recruitment and retention and partnering with the QIC-WD as part of a research project.

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Why the Oklahoma DHS felt that working with the QIC-WD was a good opportunity

admin — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 06:00:00 +0000

Why the Oklahoma DHS felt that working with the QIC-WD was a good opportunity

Leaders from Oklahoma Department of Human Services (DHS) discuss why it is important to have a strong child welfare workforce and partner with the QIC-WD.

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Why Washington State wants to stablize their child welfare workforce and be part of the QIC-WD

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 05:00:00 +0000

Why Washington State wants to stablize their child welfare workforce and be part of the QIC-WD

Representatives from the Washington Department of Children, Youth and Families describe their dedication to retaining social workers to better serve the kids in Washington state.

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