This video highlights how data visualization tools can help child welfare agencies better utilize their workforce data.
Watch the VideoData 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.
Watch the VideoThis video highlights some of the challenges that are specific to recruiting, retaining, and managing child welfare workers in rural communities.
Watch the VideoTo 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.
Watch the VideoMegan Paul, QIC-WD Workforce Lead, describes three different ways of looking at turnover: internal vs. external, voluntary vs. involuntary, and functional vs. dysfunctional.
Watch the VideoThe 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.
Watch the VideoThis video features child welfare workers and supervisors discussing how work-related secondary traumatic stress (STS) impacts them personally and professionally.
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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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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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"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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