2023年9月26日 · The Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development (QIC-WD) is dedicated to understanding how to improve child workforce outcomes. Ultimately, improvements in workforce outcomes can lead to enhanced child and family outcomes for state and tribal child welfare systems.

2021年7月16日 · QIC-Tips summarize child welfare workforce-related recommendations made by the QIC-WD. These tips are derived from research, our experience, or the experience(s) of our sites. Most QIC-Tips are written for child welfare leaders, policymakers, and decision makers and are intended to highlight key workforce strategies and provide links to ...

The QIC-WD is partnering with 8 public and tribal child welfare agencies interested in being on the cutting edge of system reform as it relates to workforce issues. Selected sites are Title IV-B funded and include organizations interested in improving: Challenges such as worker recruitment, retention, satisfaction, and intention to stay

Through evaluation, the QIC-WD is enhancing what is known about evidence-informed workforce interventions and how they are related to outcomes for children, including interventions related to job redesign, telework, supportive supervision, hiring, organizational culture and climate, and job-related secondary traumatic stress.

The QIC-WD is leveraging the expertise of its nationally recognized team—comprised of CCFL, the University of Colorado-Denver, University of Louisville, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, University of California-Los Angeles, and three child welfare consultants—to design, implement, and rigorously evaluate evidence-informed workforce ...

2025年1月9日 · This article describes work done to address these challenges through a federally funded project called the Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development 1 (QIC-WD). By collaborating with several child agencies to do applied research, the QIC-WD advanced the available evidence on a variety of workforce interventions.

The goal of QIC-WD is to enhance what is known about evidence-informed workforce interventions and how they are related to outcomes for children. This collection contains a variety of resources and articles written by QIC-WD partners for state, county, tribal and other child welfare administrators, human resources (HR) professionals, and ...

2024年8月22日 · A 2023 webinar hosted by Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development (QIC-WD) asked participants about their current work situation and most reported working in hybrid work environment. Although this was an informal poll, the participants (who were primarily in supervisory roles in child welfare agencies) felt that remote work helped ...

They participated in a thorough needs assessment process which led to creation of Coach Ohio, a multi-level blend of two interventions that addressed key needs across the counties regarding work-related traumatic stress and supportive supervision.

The goal of the QIC-WD is to define, implement and study interventions which respond to high rates of turnover in the child welfare workforce, with the goal of reducing future turnover. Faculty and researchers at the Kempe Center are leading implementation or evaluation at four of the research and demonstration sites: Washington State, Nebraska ...