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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Sharon Pinkney,

This chapter from 'New Directions in Children’s Welfare' applies the theorising emerging from mobilities discourses and applies them to children’s services. 

Sharon Pinkney,

This chapter from 'New Directions in Children’s Welfare' examines competing understandings of child welfare.

Sharon Pinkney,

This chapter, from the book 'New Directions in Children’s Welfare,' explores the emotional and sensory dimensions of child welfare as an embodied practice which takes place across diverse sites, spaces and places. 

April Joy Damian, Joseph J. Gallo, Tamar Mendelson - Children and Youth Services Review,

The purpose of this study was to assess the perspective of social service providers who participated in a nine-month, trauma-informed care (TIC) training intervention on 1) their capacity to make referrals to trauma-specific services following the training, and 2) factors external to the training intervention that supported or hindered their ability to link traumatized youth with services.

Patrick John O’Leary, Amy Young, Donna McAuliffe, Yanuar Wismayanti - International Social Work,

This article outlines exploratory research in establishing a role for social work in child protection in Indonesia.

Ebenezer Cudjoe & Alhassan Abdullah - Qualitative Social Work,

This is the first study in Ghana to explore child protection workers and parents’ experiences on participatory practices. 

Julie Gilbert Rosicky & Felicity Sackville Northcott - Persona y Familia,

The focus of this paper will be the intersection of law, policy implementation, and social work in child protection, specifically child protection involving children who are separated by an international border from their families.

Annie E. Casey Foundation,

This publication outlines five clear steps that child welfare agency leaders in the United States can take to build and maintain a strong, stable frontline workforce.

Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity,

This online course on implicit bias was developed by the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity to aid practitioners in understanding and addressing racial bias in the US child protection system.

Global Social Service Workforce Alliance,

Developed by members of the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance’s Case Management Interest Group, this resource aims to define case management.