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

		Email Follow these Steps to email a friend or colleague a link to this information. Child Welfare Workforce Development and Workplace Enhancement Institute : Knowledge Development and Application : Meeting Report Year Published: 2006 https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/wf-institute/ 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-serving organizations and associations. Both indicating a need to highlight successes and challenges is hiring and retaining a qualified workforce. Institute participants included public and private non-profit child welfare agency representatives; state and local agency directors and administrators; university faculty members, researchers and educators; representatives of national organizations, human resources professionals; CB grantees, and CB training and technical assistance (T&TA) network representatives. The synthesis groups 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. The synthesis groups' recommendations were used to produce this report. (Author abstract, modified) Step 1: Recipient email address(es) (First one is Required) To Email Address 1: To Email Address 2: To Email Address 3: To Email Address 4: To Email Address 5:   Step 2: From Email Address (Required) From Email Address:   Step 3: Verify You are Human (Required) Are you Human? True False   Step 3: Send the link Print (PDF 126KB)  Share
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Appendix B

Children's Bureau Child Welfare Staff Recruitment and Retention Discretionary Grant Programs

Much of the impetus for the Institute was derived from CB's Child Welfare Training Discretionary Grant Programs. They are as follows:

2003 Developing Models of Effective Child Welfare Staff Recruitment and Retention Training Grants

• Fordham University, Bronx, NY
• Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
• Regents of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
• Research Foundation of SUNY, Albany, NY
• University of Denver Seminary, Denver, CO
• University of Iowa, Iowa, IA
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
• University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME

2003 National Evaluation of Child Welfare Training Grants

• Trustees of Boston University, Boston, MA

2003 Professional Education for Public Child Welfare Practitioners:
A: Professional Education for Prospective MSW Level Public Child Welfare Staff (Awarding MSW Degree)

• Board of Trustees, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
• Illinois State University, Normal, IL
• Michigan State University, East Wing, MI
• University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

B: Professional Education for Current Public Child Welfare Agency Staff (Awarding BSW and/or MSW Degree)

• Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
• Nazareth College of Rochester, Rochester, NY
• Trustees of Boston University,Boston, MA
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

C: Professional Education for Prospective and Current American Indian and/or Alaskan Native Public Child Welfare Staff who are currently enrolled or plan to enroll in BSW or MSW Social Work Programs (Awarding BSW and/or MSW Degree)

• The Regents of The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
• University of Kansas, Center for Research, Inc., Lawrence, KS
• University of Maine, Orono, ME
• University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Greene Bay, WI

2003 Training for Effective Child Welfare Practice in Rural Communities

• Portland State University, Portland, OR
• San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego, CA
• Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
• Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, MO
• Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

2004 Professional Education for Current and Prospective Public Child Welfare Practitioners Leading to the Mater of Social Work (MSW) Degree

• The Curators of the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
• The Research Foundation of SUNY for SUNY Brockport, Brockport, NY
• University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK
• The Regents of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
• University of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD

2004 Effective Child Welfare Practice with Hispanic Children and Families

• Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
• The University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc, Lawrence, KS
• Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
• The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX

2004 Professional Education for Current and Prospective Public Child Welfare Practitioners Leading to Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) Degree

• University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
• Texas State University-San Marcos, San Marcos, TX
• Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN
• Richard Stockton College of NJ, Pomona, NJ
• AZ Board of Regents for/behalf of Northern AZ University, Flagstaff, AZ

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