Division of Milwaukee Child Protective Services

Each QIC-WD site developed a logic model to serve as a visual representation of their selected intervention. All logic models included four main components: inputs, activities, outputs, and outcomes. Collectively, these demonstrate the resources and actions required to implement the program, as well as the associated result or changes anticipated through implementation of the program. The hypothesized relationships are represented by the pathways connecting the listed activities and anticipated outcomes.

The Importance of Communication When Implementing Workforce Changes

“Communication is the key to success…” Listen to QIC-WD site representatives from Washington, Louisiana, Virginia, and Milwaukee, WI talk about the strategies they used to introduce and support a workforce initiative in their child welfare agency.

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Milwaukee Progress Update - Identifying Barriers & Working through Solutions
The Division of Milwaukee Child Protective Services (DMCPS) is testing a model to amplify the staff’s collective voice to create solutions to agency challenges which then can feed into changing the organizational culture.
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Organizational Change Process


The Division of Milwaukee Child Protective Services worked with the QIC-WD to address organizational culture and climate. This video highlights the experience of workers, supervisors, and administrators who were involved in ARC, an intervention to bring worker voice to agency decision making.

Why the Division of Milwaukee CPS wants to be part of the QIC-WD

A representative of the Division of Milwaukee Child Protective Services (CPS) discusses how the county believes that working with the QIC-WD can help them to achieve a strong and stable workforce.

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Milwaukee Selects a Workforce Intervention: Organizational Culture & Climate
The Division of Milwaukee Child Protective Services (DMCPS) of the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families (DCF) will be implementing and testing an organizational culture and climate intervention.
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Milwaukee County, Wisconsin: Organizational Culture & Climate
A healthy organizational culture and climate in a child welfare agency and describes the tool used by the QIC-WD to measure it.
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QIC-WD Site Intervention Selection – Fall 2018
The QIC-WD sites have selected their workforce interventions! Learn about the range of interventions that will be implemented and tested to build knowledge about what works to improve worker retention in the field of child welfare.
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