National Child Welfare Workforce Institute - Learning, Leading, Changing
 National eUpdate 
     Timely, Targeted News & Information from NCWWI     |   Fall 2013   |   Issue 11
 

5 More Years! 5 More Years! 5 More Years!

 

We are pleased to announce that we have received a $21.2 million award from the Children's Bureau (CB) to continue to lead the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute (NCWWI) from 2013-2018.

 

This cooperative agreement is led by Mary McCarthy (co-PI), Katharine Briar-Lawson (co-PI) and Nancy Dickinson (Director) in cooperation with Randi Walters (CB Federal Project Officer), Bob Lindecamp (CB/ICF Child Welfare Program Specialist) and Jane Morgan (CB Capacity-Building Division Director).

 

Building on the success of our last 5 years, NCWWI is taking on a new role in the CB's Training & Technical Assistance Network as a Center of Excellence on Workforce and Leadership Development. As a result, our approach is shifting to allow us to serve and connect with the field in deeper and more intensive ways, while still continuing to offer many of the high quality, relevant services, products and support that you have come to know and trust.

 

We hope you will take a minute to review the information below to learn more about this next phase of NCWWI:
OUR STRENGTHENED VISION
 
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Innovative organizational leadership, high performing staff, and diverse partners prepared and committed to pursue excellence and sustainable systems change in service of optimal outcomes for children, youth and families.   

OUR ENHANCED PURPOSE
 
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To increase child welfare practice effectiveness through diverse partnerships that focus on workforce systems development, organizational interventions, and change leadership, using data-driven capacity building, education, and professional development. 
OUR DYNAMIC GOALS & ACTIVITIES

 

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Build evidence of best practices in workforce development. 

 

Provide leadership development to child welfare agency staff (supervisors, middle managers and directors) and schools of social work deans, directors and chairs.

 

Support organizational interventions to improve agency culture, climate and staff retention.

 

Implement university-agency partnerships to build the capacity of the child welfare workforce.

 

Model and promote the principles and behaviors of a learning organization.

 

Advance knowledge through dissemination and evaluation.

OUR COMMITTED PARTNERS
 
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NCWWI is now comprised of six institutional partners with a long history of collaboration and dedication to workforce and leadership development: 

        1. University at Albany/SUNY
        2. University of Maryland
        3. University of Denver
        4. Michigan State University
        5. Portland State University
        6. University of Southern Maine

We look forward to connecting with you in the months and years ahead. 

 

If you have any questions, please contact Sara Munson at smunson@albany.edu

 

Enjoy the holiday season,

 

The NCWWI Team
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NCWWI NATIONAL WEBINAR SERIES

  

Our new national webinar series on workforce development will begin in early 2014. Stay tuned.....

In the meantime, please visit our Vimeo channel for recordings of our 12 previous national sessions:

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LEARN MORE

Visit our updated website at

www.NCWWI.org
and stay tuned for our new

LEARNING PORTAL

offering one-stop shopping for workforce and leadership development products, events, course materials, peer exchange opportunities, and other resources.
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