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    2020 Child Welfare Worker Recognition Event

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2020 54:44


    Listen in on the September 15, 2020 Child Welfare Worker Recognition Event to get reconnected to the heart work and hear Robin Leake, Jerry Milner, Victor Sims, Courtney Canova, and Dr. Lakeya Cherry express their appreciation for how you've adjusted your practice to serve families and children under such unprecedented and challenging conditions. Thank you for all you do!

    2020 Child Welfare Worker Recognition Event

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2020 54:44


    Listen in on the September 15, 2020 Child Welfare Worker Recognition Event to get reconnected to the heart work and hear Robin Leake, Jerry Milner, Victor Sims, Courtney Canova, and Dr. Lakeya Cherry express their appreciation for how you've adjusted your practice to serve families and children under such unprecedented and challenging conditions. Thank you for all you do!

    [Webinar] Supporting the Virtual Workforce #6:Using Social Media and Technology to Engage Children, Youth, and Families

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2020


    During the COVID-19 crisis, child welfare workers are using technology to communicate with families, and foster parents are using technology to connect youth in their care to services and maintain connection between youth and their biological families. This webinar offers considerations and best practices to support child welfare workers as they use technology with the families they serve.

    [Webinar] Supporting the Virtual Workforce #6:Using Social Media and Technology to Engage Children, Youth, and Families

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2020


    During the COVID-19 crisis, child welfare workers are using technology to communicate with families, and foster parents are using technology to connect youth in their care to services and maintain connection between youth and their biological families. This webinar offers considerations and best practices to support child welfare workers as they use technology with the families they serve.

    [Webinar] Supporting the Virtual Workforce #5: Coaching Remotely

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2020


    Coaching in the child welfare workforce often happens face-to-face or in context of daily work activities. With our shift to virtual work, face-to-face contact may have been curtailed but connecting and supporting growth does not need to stop. This session explores what stays the same and what adjustments must be made when coaching remotely.

    [Webinar] Supporting the Virtual Workforce #5: Coaching Remotely

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2020


    Coaching in the child welfare workforce often happens face-to-face or in context of daily work activities. With our shift to virtual work, face-to-face contact may have been curtailed but connecting and supporting growth does not need to stop. This session explores what stays the same and what adjustments must be made when coaching remotely.

    [Webinar] Supporting the Virtual Workforce #4: Converting Classroom Training from In-person to Online

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2020


    Much of child welfare professional development, especially foundational training for new workers, takes place in-person. Because of the current situation, training needs to be available online in order to continue to meet the needs of our workforce. This webinar provides information on converting in-person experiences to virtual learning platforms, as almost anything that can be taught in the classroom can also go online (really!). Learn tips, tricks, and ways to overcome barriers.

    [Webinar] Supporting the Virtual Workforce #4: Converting Classroom Training from In-person to Online

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2020


    Much of child welfare professional development, especially foundational training for new workers, takes place in-person. Because of the current situation, training needs to be available online in order to continue to meet the needs of our workforce. This webinar provides information on converting in-person experiences to virtual learning platforms, as almost anything that can be taught in the classroom can also go online (really!). Learn tips, tricks, and ways to overcome barriers.

    [Webinar] Supporting the Virtual Workforce #3: Physical, Emptional, and Psychological Safety

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2020


    During the COVID-19 crisis, child welfare workers provide critical services to their communities. As essential public servants, it is important that they have systems in place to ensure their safety during home visits and working in the field. This session explores how child welfare programs are innovating to protect their frontline workers' physical, emotional, and psychological safety.

    [Webinar] Supporting the Virtual Workforce #3: Physical, Emptional, and Psychological Safety

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2020


    During the COVID-19 crisis, child welfare workers provide critical services to their communities. As essential public servants, it is important that they have systems in place to ensure their safety during home visits and working in the field. This session explores how child welfare programs are innovating to protect their frontline workers’ physical, emotional, and psychological safety.

    [Webinar] Supporting the Virtual Workforce #2: Well-being

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2020


    In these uncertain times, we are all presented with new concerns about ourselves, our teams, and those we love. With the unprecedented global crisis, our national child welfare workforce and leaders also find themselves facing new challenges and stressors as everything about the old “normal” is changing. In this session, Dr. Amelia Franck Meyer provides hopeful perspectives, concrete action steps and tools, and words of comfort and support for our workforce to help them manage through this crisis. Participants receive ideas to cope and prepare to be in the best position and condition possible as we begin to rebuild together.

    [Webinar] Supporting the Virtual Workforce #2: Well-being

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2020


    In these uncertain times, we are all presented with new concerns about ourselves, our teams, and those we love. With the unprecedented global crisis, our national child welfare workforce and leaders also find themselves facing new challenges and stressors as everything about the old “normal” is changing. In this session, Dr. Amelia Franck Meyer provides hopeful perspectives, concrete action steps and tools, and words of comfort and support for our workforce to help them manage through this crisis. Participants receive ideas to cope and prepare to be in the best position and condition possible as we begin to rebuild together.

    [Webinar] Supporting the Virtual Workforce #1: Virtual Supervision

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2020


    With the child welfare workforce currently working from home, supervision is more important than ever to ensure continued quality service provision and to keep children safe and families together. Listen to this recording to hear how supervision is changing to respond to this new virtual world and what adjustments are being made in this environment.

    [Webinar] Supporting the Virtual Workforce #1: Virtual Supervision

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2020


    With the child welfare workforce currently working from home, supervision is more important than ever to ensure continued quality service provision and to keep children safe and families together. Listen to this recording to hear how supervision is changing to respond to this new virtual world and what adjustments are being made in this environment.

    [Webinar] Meaningful Workforce Development: Making it Happen

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2019 58:18


    This webinar, held on September 26, 2019, highlights the workforce development efforts of the Indiana Department of Child Services

    [Webinar] Meaningful Workforce Development: Making it Happen

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2019 58:18


    This webinar, held on September 26, 2019, highlights the workforce development efforts of the Indiana Department of Child Services

    [Podcast] Your Next Career Move: A Child Welfare Stipend Program

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2018 5:27


    Jennifer Gerber thought it was impossible to complete a master's degree while juggling the demands of a child welfare career. In this podcast episode hear how support from a traineeship program through the University of New Hampshire and the New Hampshire Department of Children, Youth, and Families helped her achieve her goals.

    [Podcast] Your Next Career Move: A Child Welfare Stipend Program

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2018 5:27


    Jennifer Gerber thought it was impossible to complete a master’s degree while juggling the demands of a child welfare career. In this podcast episode hear how support from a traineeship program through the University of New Hampshire and the New Hampshire Department of Children, Youth, and Families helped her achieve her goals.

    [Webinar] One Heart Can Make a Difference: Impacting Lives through Dynamic Service Excellence

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2018 92:08


    Within the world of child welfare, we have been given the task of empowering children, youth, and families who are faced with a variety of life challenges and obstacles. No matter how difficult the situation, when we focus on the mission and serve from the heart lives are positively impacted and transformed. This highly informative, inspirational and purpose-driven message addresses how every person within the child welfare system has the power to be a difference maker when their heart is emotionally connected to the jobs they perform. Furthermore, participants will be taught a variety of skills designed to enhance their professional abilities in the areas of building relationships, valuing others, exhibiting leadership and mastering service excellence. Individuals will leave this session motivated, recharged and with a renewed sense of purpose.

    [Webinar] Dismantling Racial Inequity #6: Sustaining Racial Equity Improvements in Child Welfare

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2018 55:39


    This one-hour combined webinar and learning exchange focuses on Ramsey County's collaborations with internal and external partners in their perseverance of sustainable change that positively impacts families and children. Ramsey County, Minnesota colleagues propose that continual and dedicated attention to racial disparities in child welfare must be at the core of any sustainability plan if child welfare agencies are to address, reduce, and ultimately eliminate race-based disparities in child welfare and their related systems.

    [Webinar] One Heart Can Make a Difference: Impacting Lives through Dynamic Service Excellence

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2018 92:08


    Within the world of child welfare, we have been given the task of empowering children, youth, and families who are faced with a variety of life challenges and obstacles. No matter how difficult the situation, when we focus on the mission and serve from the heart lives are positively impacted and transformed. This highly informative, inspirational and purpose-driven message addresses how every person within the child welfare system has the power to be a difference maker when their heart is emotionally connected to the jobs they perform. Furthermore, participants will be taught a variety of skills designed to enhance their professional abilities in the areas of building relationships, valuing others, exhibiting leadership and mastering service excellence. Individuals will leave this session motivated, recharged and with a renewed sense of purpose.

    [Webinar] Dismantling Racial Inequity #6: Sustaining Racial Equity Improvements in Child Welfare

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2018 55:39


    This one-hour combined webinar and learning exchange focuses on Ramsey County’s collaborations with internal and external partners in their perseverance of sustainable change that positively impacts families and children. Ramsey County, Minnesota colleagues propose that continual and dedicated attention to racial disparities in child welfare must be at the core of any sustainability plan if child welfare agencies are to address, reduce, and ultimately eliminate race-based disparities in child welfare and their related systems.

    [Webinar] Tools of the Trade #5: Leadership Training for Supervisors and Managers

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2018 43:33


    This webinar, held August 23, 2018, is the fifth in a 5-part series of interactive and informational webinars where the NCWWI team helps participants explore NCWWI resources and efficiently locate just the right ones to make positive changes in your teams or organizations. During this session, NCWWI staff review the components of NCWWI's Leadership Academies for Supervisors and Middle Managers and provide implementation recommendations.

    [Webinar] Tools of the Trade #5: Leadership Training for Supervisors and Managers

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2018 43:33


    This webinar, held August 23, 2018, is the fifth in a 5-part series of interactive and informational webinars where the NCWWI team helps participants explore NCWWI resources and efficiently locate just the right ones to make positive changes in your teams or organizations. During this session, NCWWI staff review the components of NCWWI's Leadership Academies for Supervisors and Middle Managers and provide implementation recommendations.

    [Webinar] Tools of the Trade #4: Accessing Leadership Activities for Staff at all Levels

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2018 37:23


    This webinar, held July 25, 2018, is the fourth in a 5-part series of interactive and informational webinars where the NCWWI team helps participants explore NCWWI resources and efficiently locate just the right ones to make positive changes in your teams or organizations. During this session, NCWWI staff demonstrate the Learning and Living Leadership Tool Kit.

    [Webinar] Tools of the Trade #4: Accessing Leadership Activities for Staff at all Levels

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2018 37:23


    This webinar, held July 25, 2018, is the fourth in a 5-part series of interactive and informational webinars where the NCWWI team helps participants explore NCWWI resources and efficiently locate just the right ones to make positive changes in your teams or organizations. During this session, NCWWI staff demonstrate the Learning and Living Leadership Tool Kit.

    [Podcast] Changing Supervision Lenses: Zooming in and zooming out

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2018 7:10


    Effective supervisors must zoom in and out to get the full picture of any situation. Twan Stokes from Indiana Department of Child Services wanted to do something about the big issue of retention and she did it by zooming in and developing a mentor appreciation day. Listen to this seven minute story to learn more about her leadership journey and how it started when she participated in the Leadership Academy for Supervisors.

    [Podcast] Changing Supervision Lenses: Zooming in and zooming out

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2018 7:10


    Effective supervisors must zoom in and out to get the full picture of any situation. Twan Stokes from Indiana Department of Child Services wanted to do something about the big issue of retention and she did it by zooming in and developing a mentor appreciation day. Listen to this seven minute story to learn more about her leadership journey and how it started when she participated in the Leadership Academy for Supervisors.

    [Podcast] Weaving Together Agency Staff Around Organizational Change

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2018 7:40


    Cherokee Nation Indian Child Welfare faced big challenges to move their agency forward. NCWWI signed on to assist and to do so had to change the way they operated, too. Hear how together they faced these challenges to make a difference for children and families.

    [Podcast] Weaving Together Agency Staff Around Organizational Change

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2018 7:40


    Cherokee Nation Indian Child Welfare faced big challenges to move their agency forward. NCWWI signed on to assist and to do so had to change the way they operated, too. Hear how together they faced these challenges to make a difference for children and families.

    [Podcast] Leading through Understanding the Role of Life Stories

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2018 8:42


    Understanding the personal journey – or context - that leads people to a career in child welfare is an important part of being an effective leader. This story explores how the Director of Missouri's Children's Division has shaped his leadership style around understanding the life stories of workers.

    [Podcast] Leading through Understanding the Role of Life Stories

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2018 8:42


    Understanding the personal journey – or context - that leads people to a career in child welfare is an important part of being an effective leader. This story explores how the Director of Missouri’s Children’s Division has shaped his leadership style around understanding the life stories of workers.

    [Podcast] Learning, Leading, and Changing

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2018 9:32


    For decades, the approach to workforce issues in child welfare was crisis-driven. Workers were not sufficiently supported, and states struggled to meet outcomes. In 2008, this began to change when the Children's Bureau funded the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute (NCWWI). By bringing together tribes, states, agencies, and universities in partnership, NCWWI has transformed the field by developing purposeful interventions that have the workforce at the forefront of sustainable change. Listen to learn how NCWWI has accomplished this in their purposeful approach.

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    [Podcast] Learning, Leading, and Changing

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2018 9:32


    For decades, the approach to workforce issues in child welfare was crisis-driven. Workers were not sufficiently supported, and states struggled to meet outcomes. In 2008, this began to change when the Children’s Bureau funded the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute (NCWWI). By bringing together tribes, states, agencies, and universities in partnership, NCWWI has transformed the field by developing purposeful interventions that have the workforce at the forefront of sustainable change. Listen to learn how NCWWI has accomplished this in their purposeful approach.

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    [Webinar] Tools of the Trade #3: Facilitating a Workforce Development Planning and Assessment Process

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2018 41:35


    This webinar, held June 26, 2018, is the third in a 5-part series of interactive and informational webinars where the NCWWI team helps participants explore NCWWI resources and efficiently locate just the right ones to make positive changes in your teams or organizations. During this session, NCWWI staff demonstrate the Workforce Development Planning and Assessment Tool Kit along with it's companion Facilitator's Guide.

    [Webinar] Tools of the Trade #3: Facilitating a Workforce Development Planning and Assessment Process

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2018 41:35


    This webinar, held June 26, 2018, is the third in a 5-part series of interactive and informational webinars where the NCWWI team helps participants explore NCWWI resources and efficiently locate just the right ones to make positive changes in your teams or organizations. During this session, NCWWI staff demonstrate the Workforce Development Planning and Assessment Tool Kit along with it's companion Facilitator's Guide.

    A New Frontier for Child Welfare in Rural North Dakota

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2018 7:14


    As an MSW student at the University of North Dakota, Skye Albert received a NCWWI traineeship that sent her to work in a rural part of the state that was facing a child welfare crisis. Skye not only tackled the unique challenges facing the county, but inspired her MSW program to re-think how they prepare students to work in the field.

    A New Frontier for Child Welfare in Rural North Dakota

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2018 7:14


    As an MSW student at the University of North Dakota, Skye Albert received a NCWWI traineeship that sent her to work in a rural part of the state that was facing a child welfare crisis. Skye not only tackled the unique challenges facing the county, but inspired her MSW program to re-think how they prepare students to work in the field.

    [Podcast] Workforce Excellence in Missouri

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2018 10:58


    The Missouri Children's Division faced big challenges prior to 2014. Too many children were in out-of-home care, child welfare workers approached practice inconsistently, and the state was plagued by high staff turnover rates. This is the story of how the Division collaborated on a Workforce Excellence project to design and implement a new practice model to address these issues.

    [Podcast] Workforce Excellence in Missouri

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2018 10:58


    The Missouri Children’s Division faced big challenges prior to 2014. Too many children were in out-of-home care, child welfare workers approached practice inconsistently, and the state was plagued by high staff turnover rates. This is the story of how the Division collaborated on a Workforce Excellence project to design and implement a new practice model to address these issues.

    [Webinar] Dismantling Racial Inequity #5: Strengthening Our Efforts Through Partnerships with Academia

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2018 85:21


    Learn about New York State's work with local counties, in collaboration with the University at Albany, on race equity and cultural responsiveness and how their partnership with local colleges and universities is part of a promising strategy to address, reduce, and ultimately eliminate race-based disparities in child welfare and other systems. Handouts are available here: http://bit.ly/REquity5Archive

    [Webinar] Dismantling Racial Inequity #5: Strengthening Our Efforts Through Partnerships with Academia

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2018 85:21


    Learn about New York State’s work with local counties, in collaboration with the University at Albany, on race equity and cultural responsiveness and how their partnership with local colleges and universities is part of a promising strategy to address, reduce, and ultimately eliminate race-based disparities in child welfare and other systems. Handouts are available here: http://bit.ly/REquity5Archive

    [Webinar] Tools of the Trade #2: How Supervisors, Trainers, and Faculty can use NCWWI Microlearnings

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2018 41:59


    This episode of Tools of the Trade explores the use of NCWWI Microlearnings

    [Webinar] Tools of the Trade #2: How Supervisors, Trainers, and Faculty can use NCWWI Microlearnings

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2018 41:59


    This episode of Tools of the Trade explores the use of NCWWI Microlearnings

    [Podcast] Workforce Podcast Series #4: Creating Change at the Local Level

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2018 40:49


    The decision to embrace a system-wide workforce development approach may come from agency leaders, but sometimes the best ideas to deliver and sustain change can come from staff directly serving on the frontlines of child welfare. In this podcast episode, hear how frontline child welfare professionals were empowered to design solutions that improved office culture, partnerships, and outcomes for the children and families they serve.

    [Podcast] Workforce Podcast Series #4: Creating Change at the Local Level

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2018 40:49


    The decision to embrace a system-wide workforce development approach may come from agency leaders, but sometimes the best ideas to deliver and sustain change can come from staff directly serving on the frontlines of child welfare. In this podcast episode, hear how frontline child welfare professionals were empowered to design solutions that improved office culture, partnerships, and outcomes for the children and families they serve.

    [Webinar] Tools of the Trade #1: Finding the Right eResources on MyNCWWI

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2018 42:56


    This episode of Tools of the Trade explores the MyNCWWI resource portal.

    [Webinar] Tools of the Trade #1: Finding the Right eResources on MyNCWWI

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2018 42:56


    This episode of Tools of the Trade explores the MyNCWWI resource portal.

    [Podcast] The Power of Data for Learning and Changing

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2018 6:32


    This is the story of 3 graduate students from the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare who were able to connect their research to practice through their NCWWI traineeships. After their research uncovered areas for improving local practice, they presented their findings to a group of managers from the field, who were compelled to act on what the students had found.

    [Podcast] When Preparation Meets Opportunity

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2018 5:14


    Anne Graham, a child welfare middle manager from New Hampshire, developed a much needed change initiative during her participation in the LAMM. Although her project addressed a serious gap in worker pre-service training, it took several years until she was able influence and enact change. This story explains how her preparation met the opportunity to be realized.

    [Podcast] The Power of Data for Learning and Changing

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2018 6:32


    This is the story of 3 graduate students from the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare who were able to connect their research to practice through their NCWWI traineeships. After their research uncovered areas for improving local practice, they presented their findings to a group of managers from the field, who were compelled to act on what the students had found.

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