Social Service Workforce Strengthening

A strong social service workforce is critical to meeting the needs of children without adequate family care.  From government policy-makers, local administrators, researchers and social workers, to educators, community workers and care providers, social service actors play a key role in protecting girls and boys and promoting their care.

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Early Childhood Workforce Initiative,

In line with principles outlined by the Early Childhood Development Action Network and the International Task Force for Teachers for Education 2030, the following are five key actions that governments, civil society organizations, and funding agencies must take to support the early childhood workforce to ensure continuity and quality in efforts to promote nurturing care.

UNICEF,

This two-module course is aligned to the Guidelines to Strengthen the Social Service Workforce for Child Protection and aims to equip the learner with key strategies to strengthen social service workforce.

Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, and UNICEF Ghana,

This report notes existing gaps and needs in social service provision and provides recommendations for specific actions to strengthen the social welfare workforce in Ghana.

Taekyung Park & Barbara Pierce - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study aimed to examine how organizational factors, particularly leadership, affect child welfare worker turnover intentions in order to help child welfare agencies establish a practice model that prevents the turnover of qualified workers.

Erica Russ, Bob Lonne, Deborah Lynch - Child Abuse & Neglect,

This Australian longitudinal, qualitative study explored child protection worker perceptions and experiences of resilience to inform understandings of worker resilience, and implications for worker functioning and workforce retention.

Erica Russ, Bob Lonne, Deborah Lynch - Child Abuse & Neglect,

This Australian longitudinal, qualitative study explored child protection worker perceptions and experiences of resilience to inform understandings of worker resilience, and implications for worker functioning and workforce retention.

Rosemary Vito - Children and Youth Services Review,

The purpose of this article is to present qualitative research results from a multiple case study on variations in organizational culture and leadership influence between three children’s mental health and child welfare agencies in Ontario, Canada.

Fiona Oates - Child Abuse & Neglect,

A strategy gaining traction to address the disproportionate representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the statutory child protection system is to recruit more Indigenous practitioners into statutory child protection work. This paper reports on results from a recent doctoral study which explored the experiences of Indigenous child protection practitioners based in Queensland, Australia.

J. Jay Miller - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study employed a retrospective pre/post design to assess the impact of a self-care training for child welfare workers (N=131) in one southeastern state in the United States.

Colleen Fitzgerald - Global Social Service Workforce Alliance,

In this blog post for the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance, part of a series celebrating Social Service Workforce Week, Colleen Fitzgerald writes about the need to support the social service workforce and to promote the well-being of caseworkers and social workers.