Strengthening the Retention of Child Protection Workers
Strengthening the Retention of Child Protection Workers

Author: Kenneth Burns

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2012-12

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 3867418292

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This book examines a key issue in the field of human and social services: how to retain workers in child protection and welfare organisations. Research over the last decade has highlighted the turnover of these workers as being a pressing and perennial issue that impacts upon service users, staff welfare, resources and the reputation of this sector. This book presents the findings of a study examining social workers' retention in child protection and welfare. The findings from this study highlights how workers' retention is influenced by exchanges relationships with colleagues and managers, and this book presents a unique 'career preference' typology which expands our understanding of how workers make decisions to stay or leave based upon their pre-conceptions of career pathways post-qualification. The book also examines findings associated with the employment mobility of these workers within child protection and tracks their next post after leaving, which provides some surprising findings regarding how we understand and measure turnover for these workers. The book also examines rich qualitative data from these workers' experiences of being a social worker in child protection associated with; job satisfaction, commitment to child protection and welfare work, making a difference, quality of supervision, autonomy, and exchange relationships with peers, all of which emerged as important factors in social workers' decisions to stay or leave. The implications of this study's findings for theory are also explored. Kenneth Burns is deputy course director of the Master of Social Work and a research associate with the Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century at University College Cork, Ireland.

Developing an Empirically Based Practice Initiative
Developing an Empirically Based Practice Initiative

Author: Jenny L Jones

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-04-23

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1317717767

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Developing an Empirically Based Practice Initiative documents practice techniques that were used during a three-year training/demonstration project for child welfare supervisors working in the frontlines of child protection services in the Southeastern United States. This unique book is a guide to combining research methodology with staff training to enhance the quality of evidence-based practice in the field. The book examines techniques that were used in training modules in four states, highlighting practice models and intervention outcomes from an evidence-based perspective. Developing an Empirically Based Practice Initiative includes details about the project from the federal perspective (The Children’s Bureau) and the operational implications at the Southern Regional Quality Improvement Center (SRQIC) level. The book examines the issues of providing technical research assistance to child welfare agencies and the complexities of cross-site evaluation with different political jurisdictions. Developing an Empirically Based Practice Initiative examines: The Children’s Bureau discretionary grant program the relationship between child welfare workers’ career plans and their abilities to accomplish core work tasks secondary traumatic stress (STS) in child protective services workers methods for monitoring and evaluating child welfare supervisors clinical decision-making as a tool for building effective supervision skills the use of outcome data for decision-making the development and implementation of the Tennessee project the use of “360-degree” evaluations to improve clinical skill development the Intervention Design and Development model Developing an Empirically Based Practice Initiative is an invaluable aid for social work practitioners, child welfare workers, case managers, and supervisors, and for social work academics and students.

The Routledge Handbook of Child and Family Social Work Research
The Routledge Handbook of Child and Family Social Work Research

Author: Elizabeth Fernandez

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-09-30

Total Pages: 964

ISBN-13: 1040098096

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This Handbook provides an accessible resource for all social work students, educators, practitioners, and policymakers to increase their knowledge and understanding of how research into the diversity and impact of child and family social work interventions might underpin and drive policy and practice. Divided into six sections The Context of Child and Family Social Work Research Preventive and Reparative Responses to Children and Families Child Maltreatment: Causes, Consequences, and Responses Alternate Care as an Approach to Safeguarding Children and Young People Intervention: Therapeutic Responses to Vulnerable Children, Youth, and Families Child and Family Social Work in the Global Context and comprising 52 newly written chapters by experts in the field, it provides a foundational overview of the field of child and family social work, including defining concepts, sentinel historical milestones, and the scope of practice. It also identifies developments in auxiliary fields such as neuroscience, psychology, education, health, poverty, and media By illustrating diverse research endeavours in parenting, maltreatment, prevention, child protection, and substitutive interventions including foster care, residential care, adoption, and juvenile corrections and elaborating child welfare research methods, measures, and impacts on practice, it analyses evidence-based interventions and policies in early intervention, child protection, child placement, adoption, and advocacy. It will be required reading for anyone working in social work and child protection.

Stopping Child Maltreatment Before it Starts
Stopping Child Maltreatment Before it Starts

Author: Neil B. Guterman

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2000-10-11

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1452221367

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Early prevention of child maltreatment is most commonly delivered through home visitation services, with the goal of promoting a positive start in parenting to avert potential child abuse and neglect, Stopping Child Maltreatment Before It Starts introduces best practice principles for early home visiting, examining the contexts from which these strategies arise. Beginning with a discussion of the nature and etiology of physical child abuse and neglect, Guterman then examines the mechanisms by which child protective and early home visitation services have traditionally operated. The book explores best practice principles by providing a detailed "inside tour" of those practices that have been empirically linked with positive outcomes in serviced families. Guterman also discusses in detail ways how home visitation may more adequately address the problem of family substance abuse in reducing child maltreatment risk, and ways visitation can attend to social network and community influences and increase parent empowerment. An essential text for child welfare courses, Stopping Child Maltreatment Before It Starts will also appeal to practitioners and policy makers in the child abuse and neglect field.

Training Social Workers to Use Solution-focused Interviewing with Child Protective Services Clients
Training Social Workers to Use Solution-focused Interviewing with Child Protective Services Clients

Author: Erin C. Laird

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9781267470751

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Abstract: The purpose of this project was to design a program, identify potential funding sources, and write a grant to fund solution-focused training for social workers who are working with Child Protective Services clients to increase client engagement and improve overall outcomes for families in Los Angeles County. An extensive literature review increased knowledge about the problem of child abuse and neglect, the high number of referrals for maltreatment and the high numbers of repeat referrals for maltreatment. The review of the literature also increased knowledge about training for social workers and the use of solution-focused techniques. The grant writer then used that knowledge to design a training program. A search for potential funding sources found that the Weingart Foundation was the best source for this project. A grant was then written to train social workers in Los Angeles County to utilize solution-focused techniques when working with Child Protective Services clients.