Finding and Keeping Child Welfare Workers
Effective Use of Training and Professional Development
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2429181 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen R Fox, Viola P Miller, Anita P Barbee (0000-0002-3951-1276) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 67-81 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1091-1359 • E-ISSN: 1540-3556 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1300/j137v07n01_06 |
| OpenAlex | W2317384716 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
Administrators in public human services are constantly involved in the exhausting challenge of recruiting and training staff in the child welfare arena. This article describes a program that the Commonwealth of Kentucky developed in order to address the recruitment and retention issue. The Public Child Welfare Certification Program is a special multi-university preparation program designed to recruit excellent workers from BSW programs who are prepared to take on complex cases with normal supervision within weeks of employment and to sustain those workers over time. Evaluation of the pilot indicates that the program is a great success in preparing students for child welfare work. Implications are discussed
Business · Certification · Commonwealth · Human services · Medical education · Political science · Public relations · Public welfare · Social Welfare · Welfare · Welfare system · Work (physics · Child Welfare and Adoption · Engineering · Homelessness and Social Issues · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work · Law
The Impact of a Title IV-E Program on Perceived Practice Skills for Child Welfare Students
Evaluating an innovative integrated training for child and youth services
Self-Efficacy in Newly-Hired Child Welfare Workers
Professionalization in public child welfare
Factors influencing child welfare employee's turnover
Comparing Social Worker and Non-Social Worker Outcomes
Factors affecting turnover rates of public child welfare front line workers
Wearing Your Heart on Your Sleeve
What Happened
Causes and Effects of Child Welfare Workforce Turnover
Supervisor Preferences for the Design and Delivery of Training
Twenty-Five Years of the Children's Bureau Investment in Social Work Education
Child Welfare Caseworker Education and Caregiver Behavioral Service Use and Satisfaction With the Caseworker
Professionalizing the Child Welfare Workforce
An Important Question Half-Answered
Broad Study but Narrow Question
Do Social Workers Make Better Child Welfare Workers Than Non–Social Workers
No Simple Answers to a Complex Question
Competency Is Not Guaranteed by the Letters That Follow Your Name
Evaluation of an In-Service Training Program for Child Welfare Practitioners
Education and Child Welfare Supervisor Performance
A multivariate analysis of training, education, and readiness for public child welfare practice
In search of innovation
Successful adoption and implementation of a comprehensive casework practice model in a public child welfare agency
Professional development opportunities as retention incentives in child welfare
Job satisfaction in a stable state child welfare workforce
Satisfactions and stressors experienced by recently-hired frontline child welfare workers
Making the Transition
Child Welfare Worker Characteristics and Job Satisfaction
| Citations per year | 1.45 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2022 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |