Child Welfare Workforce Development and Workplace Enhancement Institute: Knowledge Development and Application

October 24-26, 2005

Purpose of conference: Highlight informed strategies for recruiting and retaining a stable and highly-skilled child welfare workforce.

Sponsored by: The Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Description: Consistent with the mission of the Children's Bureau to seek to provide for safety, permanency, and well-being of children and families through leadership and productive partnerships, this event was designed to highlight informed strategies for recruiting and retaining a stable and highly-skilled child welfare workforce.

Workforce Institute Meeting Report (July 2006)
Captures the ideas and thoughts that were shared during the Institute. Includes key recommendations from synthesis groups—facilitated discussion groups that provided an opportunity for attendees to think critically about workforce-related issues, to discuss possible solutions to workforce challenges, and to make recommendations to the field. (PDF - 126 KB)

View Conference Agenda (PDF - 165 KB)

Conference Videos:

• Keynote & Opening Plenary Session: Success in the Workplace: Connecting an Agency's Vision, Mission, and Values to the Workforce and the Impact/Influence this has on the Organizational Culture Flash Player 8 required
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  Welcome and Introductions: Jane Morgan, Division Director, Child Welfare Capacity Building Division, Children's Bureau
  
  Overview: Marva Benjamin, National Child Welfare Training Specialist, Children's Bureau Child Welfare Capacity Building Division
  
  Speaker: David Sanders, Director, Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services
  
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• Plenary Session Panel: Promising Approaches to Recruiting and Retaining Quality Child Welfare Workers Flash Player 8 required
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  Moderator: Joan Levy Zlotnik, Executive Director, Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research
  
  Presentations:
  
  

  Susan Robison, Consultant, Cornerstones for Kids, Project of Annie E. Casey's Human Services Workforce Initiatives
  (PDF - 230 KB)    (MS PPT - 507 KB)
  
  Anita Light, Director, National Association of Public Child Welfare Administrators
  (PDF - 92 KB)    (MS PPT - 92 KB)
  
  Pamela Day, Associate Director, Caliber, an ICF Consulting Group
  
  Sue D. Steib, Director, Research to Practice, Child Welfare League of America
  (PDF - 46 KB)    (MS PPT - 48 KB)
  
  Cynthia Woodside, Senior Government Relations Associate, National Association of Social Workers
  (PDF - 68 KB)    (MS PPT - 131 KB)
  
  

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• Plenary Session: Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSR) Workforce Related Findings - Focused on Training Flash Player 8 required
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  Introduction: Marva Benjamin, National Child Welfare Training Specialist, Children's Bureau Child Welfare Capacity Building Division
  
  Speaker: William Hornsby, Children's Bureau
  
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  View or Download Presentation Slides:
  Training of Child Welfare Staff and Providers: Results of the Child and Family Services Reviews

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• Workshop: Designing, Implementing and Evaluating a Research Driven Model in New York State Public Child Welfare Organizations Flash Player 8 required
  
  Moderator: Lynda K. Arnold, Associate Director, NRC for Organizational Improvement
  
  Facilitators:
  
  

  Hal Lawson, Professor, SUNY-Albany School of Social Welfare, Social Work Education Consortium
  
  Mary McCarthy, Director, SUNY-Albany, Social Work Education Consortium Paul Brady, SUNY at Albany
  
  Paul Brady, Commissioner, Schoharie County DSS
  
  James Caringi, Assistant Director, SUNY-Albany School of Social Welfare, Social Work Education Consortium Edward Thompson, CPS for the Queens Borough of New York City
  
  

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• Workshop: The Role of Leadership and Decision Makers in Improving Workforce Practices Flash Player 8 required
  
  Moderator: Pamela Johnson, Independent Living Specialist, Administration for Children and Families, Children's Bureau
  
  Facilitators: Gary Anderson, Director, School of Social Work, College of Social Science, Michigan State University
  
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Updated on March 19, 2010