The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services redesigned the child welfare worker job to strengthen their workforce and reduce worker turnover. DCFS worked with the QIC-WD to create a new job, the Child Welfare Team Specialist, and reorganize workers into Permanency and Prevention teams. This video discusses the challenges DCFS faced related to turnover and how the job redesign is changing the way they work. DCFS staff share their experience with the intervention being tested by the QIC-WD.
Site Resources
These resources provide an overview of the QIC-WD’s work with the site. Resources include manuals, guidance documents, logic models, and other implementation tools as well summaries of the intervention, evaluation, implementation, and theory of change.
- Final Summary
- Site Overview
- Key Findings
- Needs Assessment Summary
- Intervention Overview
- Intervention Background
- Site Intervention Logic Model
- Evaluation Overview
- Implementation Overview
- Theory of Change
- Prevention Worker Role Cards
- Permanency Worker Role Cards
Project Video
The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services redesigned the child welfare worker job to strengthen their workforce and reduce worker turnover. DCFS worked with the QIC-WD to create a new job, the Child Welfare Team Specialist, and reorganize workers into Permanency and Prevention teams. This video discusses the challenges DCFS faced related to turnover and how the job redesign is changing the way they work. DCFS staff share their experience with the intervention being tested by the QIC-WD.
Site Profile
This two-page summary provides an overview of the site’s workforce and its challenges retaining child welfare workers. Learn more about the intervention selected to strengthen the workforce and the evaluation that will be conducted 2019 – 2021 to increase our collective understanding of how to improve child welfare workforce outcomes.
