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Describing the Workforce
This section provides reports on the child welfare workforce, including issues and challenges presented by workforce shortages and staff turnover, as well as examples of studies conducted by States and localities to better understand the factors influencing their child welfare workforce. These include statewide assessments, surveys, and reports on State and local child welfare workforce issues.
The Child Welfare Workforce Challenge: Results From a Preliminary Study (PDF - 83 KB)
Alliance for Children and Families, American Public Human Services Association, & Child Welfare League of America (2001)
Summarizes data from a national survey of public and private child welfare agencies on workforce challenges. Focuses on effective practices in recruiting and retaining qualified and talented workers.
Child Welfare Workforce Development and Workplace Enhancement Institute : Knowledge Development and Application : Meeting Report
On October 24-26, 2005, the Children's Bureau (CB) sponsored a Workforce Institute at the Hilton Crystal City Hotel in Arlington, VA, with approximately 250 invited participants. The Institute had several purposes: 1) to highlight productive/action-planning strategies for recruiting and retaining a stable and skilled workforce; 2) to share best practices; 3) to develop innovative solutions to common challenges, and 4) to build a shared knowledge base. Much of the impetus for the Institute came from a cluster of CB's discretionary grants on child welfare staff recruitment and retention as well as the findings of recent workforce-related studies conducted by national ...
Child Welfare Workforce: Fast Facts
National Association of Social Workers (2003)
Provides information about the child welfare workforce, including facts about worker turnover, caseload and workload, safety and risk of violence, salaries, qualifications, and the education and training of the child welfare workforce.
Child Welfare: HHS Could Play a Greater Role in Helping Child Welfare Agencies Recruit and Retain Staff: Report to Congressional Requesters
U.S. General Accounting Office (2003)
Presents findings from GAO interviews with caseworkers in four States. High caseloads and related administrative burdens, a lack of supervisory support, and insufficient time to take training were cited as issues impacting both caseworkers' ability to work effectively and their decision to stay in the child welfare profession.
Licensed Social Workers in the U.S., 2004 (PDF - 2006 KB)
National Association of Social Workers Center for Workforce Studies (2006)
Presents a variety of facts and figures about licensed social workers in the U.S. The findings and conclusions are based primarily on the responses to a survey of a stratified random sample of approximately 10,000 licensed social workers in the U.S. conducted in 2004.
Research Roundup: Child Welfare Workforce: Moving From Research to Practice (PDF - 363 KB)
Child Welfare League of America (2002)
Explores staff shortages in the child welfare workforce and the need for improved staff recruitment and retention.
The Unsolved Challenge of System Reform: The Condition of the Frontline Human Services Workforce (PDF - 335 KB)
Annie E. Casey Foundation (2003)
Explores the job conditions and challenges faced by frontline workers in child welfare, child care, juvenile justice, youth services, and employment and training.
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State and local examples
Agency Administration: Education, Training and Salary Information
Child Welfare League of America National Data Analysis System (2003)
Provides education data on the minimum post-high school degree that is required for child welfare workers, supervisors, and administrators in different States from 1996 to 2000.
An Evaluation: Milwaukee County Child Welfare: Finances and Staffing: Department of Health and Family Services (PDF - 283 KB)
Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau (2006)
Addresses program funding and expenditures, including the appropriateness of expenditures by program contractors, and staff turnover, qualifications, training, and workloads.
More Focus Needed on Human Capital Management Issues for Caseworkers and Foster Parent Recruitment and Retention: Report to Congressional Committees
U.S. Government Accountability Office (2004)
Examines the District of Columbia's Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA), which is responsible for ensuring the safety and well-being of about 3,000 children in its care and ensuring that services are provided to them and their families. GAO also reviewed plans for and use of the Federal foster care improvement funds.
Report From the 2004 Child Welfare Workforce Survey: State Agency Findings (PDF - 891 KB)
American Public Human Services Association (2005)
Contains information from 42 States about staff compensation, education and licensing, training and career development, caseloads, and turnover.
Who's Taking Care?: Advocasey Examines the Staffing Crisis in Children and Family Services (PDF - 1330 KB)
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Advocasey, 6(1), 2004
Highlights the need for a renewed focus on frontline workers serving needy children and families and takes an up-close look at this challenge in Greenville, SC.
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