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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Save the Children,

This report details the 4th cycle of the Asia Pacific Child Protection in Emergencies Professional Development Programme (CPiE PDP) Residential Training, which took place in Thailand between October 21st and November 3rd, 2019.

Capacity Building Center for States,

Child welfare professionals have a deep and often quiet impact on children’s lives—working to connect families with resources, determining appropriate placements, and responding around the clock to address emergencies.

Miracle Foundation,

This toolkit is designed for parents/caregivers and the social service workforce guiding them. It provides practical tips that can be implemented quickly and mini lessons on topics of importance to anyone raising or supporting a child.

Beverly-Jean Daniel and Johanne Jean-Pierre - International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies,

This article explores how we can re-imagine child and youth care practice with African Canadian youth.

UNICEF,

In 2019, UNICEF issued its first ever global Guidelines to Strengthen the Social Service Workforce for Child Protection. This two-module course is aligned to the Guidelines and aims to equip the learner with key strategies to strengthen social service workforce.

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.