This one-day day convening follows the February 6th webinar, highlighting the current Federally funded 5 year Quality Improvement Center on Workforce Development (QICWD) which is studying the impact of workforce interventions on staff retention and child outcomes with child welfare practitioners across 8 sites across the nation. The in-person convening will support county sharing, implementation strategies, and organizational assessments for identifying strategies that might work in northern regional counties.
To register for the February 6th webinar, click below:
https://ucdaviscpe.zoom.us/meeting/register/79bed93b752939e08c34be5db4a05ad8
Topics:
a. Telecommuting work (structured approach with specific strategies)
b. Technology Innovations
c. Resilience Alliance + Restoring Resilience Response to lower secondary traumatic stress
d. Supportive Supervision
e. Onboarding
f. Employee Selection System (Testing efficacy of a selection test, as well as interview protocol including in-basket tasks)
g. Job Redesign
h. ARC (Glisson's model of changing organizational culture and climate)- trying to understand the impact of each component of the model (there have been several RCTs on the whole model, but uncertain which aspects make the most difference)
i. Sub-studies across all sites:
- impact of education and Title IV-E education on turnover and outcomes
- impact of turnover on practice and on outcomes