A Statement of Support and Appreciation
As we collectively reflect on 2015, its triumphs and its tragedies, we want to pause and acknowledge the struggles and sacrifices that our child welfare professionals make every day as they do the difficult, meaningful work of engaging with families and protecting children.
We share a deep appreciation for the courage and tenacity required to keep children safe and strengthen families. It is our hope that in this new year, we will use our collective strength to bolster efforts to advance worker safety and the range of resources needed to effectively support the child welfare workforce.
In Voices from the Field on Worker Safety, hundreds of child welfare staff, leaders and partners from states, counties and tribes around the country and Canada offer their support and appreciation for the critical work child welfare professionals undertake every day to ensure children and families are safe and strong, and their future is bright.
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Competency-based Workforce Development: A Synthesis of Current Approaches
The child welfare field constantly strives to improve practices that will result in better outcomes for children and families. Finding, selecting, preparing, and retaining the right people for the workforce historically has been a challenge and often an impediment to consistent and positive outcomes. The use of competency models to guide recruitment, selection, preparation, and retention offers one strategy in a comprehensive approach to enhance the child welfare workforce.
This paper, Competency-based Workforce Development: A Synthesis of Current Approaches, is designed for child welfare agency staff and their human resource management departments to provide an overview of competencies and the role that they can play in a comprehensive workforce development system.
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Learning and Living Leadership: A Tool Kit
NCWWI's leadership tool kit is now available in a web-based format!
- This tool kit provides over 85 hands-on and concrete activities for developing leadership at all levels, from the worker to the executive.
- Activities are designed to transfer, reinforce, and practice competencies from the NCWWI Leadership Competency Framework.
- Activities range from brief activities to intensive, long-term efforts and cross multiple competencies.
- Many activities provide supporting worksheets to help you and your staff plan and track progress.
- Users can design their leadership development plan based upon their own leadership competency assessment.
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