Evaluation and Data Use

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. 

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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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HR and Child Welfare Data – Building Connections to Improve Practice

In this video Children's Bureau Division Director, Randi Walters, discusses the importance of workforce data to understanding child welfare outcomes.

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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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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

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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Why the Nebraska DHHS wants a stong workforce

The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) wants to build a strong workforce to better support families they serve.

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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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