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Child Welfare Workforce Turnover

Author : Melanie Dawn Sage
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (727 download)

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Download or read book Child Welfare Workforce Turnover written by Melanie Dawn Sage and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public child welfare agencies experience front line worker turnover rates as high as 25% a year. Worker turnover has significant financial costs to agencies, and has been linked to negative outcomes for children in care. Prior research has linked organizational factors, such as organizational climate, culture, and supervisor satisfaction, to turnover intent in child welfare populations. This research uses an empowerment framework to turn to workers directly to answer the question, "What are the organizational factors that lead frontline child welfare workers to stay or leave the agency, and what, then, are the implications for agency administrators?" This study relies upon secondary data of a workforce study conducted by the Child Welfare Partnership at Portland State University's School of Social Work. The data was collected via a pilot Internet survey of approximately 400 State-employed Oregon child welfare case workers across all geographic regions in the state, and focuses on workers who plan to leave for preventable reasons. This study explored links between organizational factors and turnover in a sample of Oregon public child welfare workers. This research finds that climate, culture, supervision, and knowledge of the job prior to hire are all significantly correlated with intent to leave. Climate is most significantly correlated to Intent to Leave, and explains 25% of the variance in intent to leave in a regression model. These research findings suggest that agency administrators who are interested in improving worker retention can monitor and address local culture and climate as one tool for increasing workforce stability. Retention may be improved by maintaining an organizational culture and climate that is empowering to workers and that encourages workers to be a part of the change process. Additional implications for the child welfare workforce, social work research, and social work education are discussed.

Child Welfare Worker Turnover in Wisconsin

Author : Yonah Drazen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Child Welfare Worker Turnover in Wisconsin written by Yonah Drazen and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A voluminous literature examines antecedents to child welfare worker turnover, a phenomenon that has implications for vulnerable children and families and increases costs to maintain essential services. This dissertation extends the literature by testing whether antecedents to turnover established in the literature are found among child welfare workers in Wisconsin, a previously un-sampled population. Further, it examines whether these antecedents are found among early-tenure child welfare workers, who have received scant prior attention. Finally, it tests whether certain aspects of the Comprehensive Job Attachment Theory (CJAT) are associated with turnover intention. The first paper consists of a systematic literature review and synthesis of the antecedents to turnover and review of theory used in the child welfare worker turnover literature. It then introduces CJAT, a two-part theory that articulates both mechanisms that keep employees at their job and those that lead to turnover. The second paper tests whether antecedents to turnover identified in the first paper are associated with turnover intention using cross-sectional survey data on Wisconsin's child welfare workforce. It also tests a key dimension of CJAT, whether discrete events that may prompt a resignation - "shocks" - are associated with turnover intention. The third paper uses a sample of Wisconsin child welfare workers who are new to their jobs to examine whether the set of antecedents to turnover intention also apply to new workers. It also tests whether elements of CJAT that are theorized to promote job retention are associated with reduced turnover intention. Findings show that the core set of antecedents to turnover found in paper 1 largely hold for Wisconsin's child welfare workforce, and that increasing numbers of shocks may be associated with turnover intention. While the antecedents to turnover largely hold in bivariate analysis among the cohort of new workers, statistical significance drops off in multivariate analyses. Commitment to the field of child welfare is consistently and strongly associated with reduced turnover intention in both samples. This dissertation found preliminary empirical support for CJAT's application to the child welfare field.

Study of Staff Losses in Child Welfare and Family Service Agencies

Author : William B. Tollen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Study of Staff Losses in Child Welfare and Family Service Agencies written by William B. Tollen and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Early Childhood Care and Education Workforce

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 030921937X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Early Childhood Care and Education Workforce written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2012-02-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early childhood care and education (ECCE) settings offer an opportunity to provide children with a solid beginning in all areas of their development. The quality and efficacy of these settings depend largely on the individuals within the ECCE workforce. Policy makers need a complete picture of ECCE teachers and caregivers in order to tackle the persistent challenges facing this workforce. The IOM and the National Research Council hosted a workshop to describe the ECCE workforce and outline its parameters. Speakers explored issues in defining and describing the workforce, the marketplace of ECCE, the effects of the workforce on children, the contextual factors that shape the workforce, and opportunities for strengthening ECCE as a profession.

Relationship Between Staff Turnover, Child Welfare System Functioning and Recurrent Child Abuse

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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Relationship Between Staff Turnover, Child Welfare System Functioning and Recurrent Child Abuse written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the relationships between factors that contribute to the overall level of functioning of child welfare agencies - turnover rates, workplace characteristics, system efficiency, and case outcomes. The authors analysed data from 12 California counties representative of a variety of economic conditions, child welfare practices, and political environments. Findings indicate that the issues related to better agency functioning and reduced child maltreatment are: increasing the salaries of child welfare workers and supervisors, not allowing or expecting overtime, not requiring "on-call" work, and focusing on the completion of written and approved case plans.

Perspectives of Transformational Leadership by Child Welfare Workers

Author : Taekyung Park
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives of Transformational Leadership by Child Welfare Workers written by Taekyung Park and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is not a new phenomenon that there is a high turnover rate among social workers. In particular, child welfare has shown the highest rates of staff turnover. To address the issue, turnover and retention of child welfare workers have been studied for decades. The history of research produced a long list of determinants for child welfare worker turnover, more than 20 factors, and showed conflicting findings with the same variables. Moreover, the long list of factors for workers' decisions to leave has poorly contributed to organizational practices for retaining child welfare workers. Therefore, this study aims to examine organizational factors, particularly leadership, for child welfare worker turnover intention, in order to help child welfare agencies to invent a practice model to prevent qualified worker's turnover. To do so, it is important to examine the effect of organizational commitment on employees' turnover intention. Therefore, following is the primary research question: Does the use of transformational leadership style in social work organizations explain child welfare worker turnover intention? A cross-sectional survey research was employed among workers in public child welfare agencies in a Midwest state, United States (N=214). Five models were examined in terms of the direct and indirect effects of transformational leadership on turnover intention of child welfare workers using STATA ver. 15. The study finding showed that transformational leadership styles of local office directors had a direct and negative effect on child welfare workers' turnover intention. As a result, this study recommends that child welfare provide local office directors with leadership training to reduce preventable turnover of child welfare workers. However, the findings should be cautiously interpreted due to the sampling strategy used in this study.

Child Welfare Worker Intent to Leave

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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Child Welfare Worker Intent to Leave written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary goal of the current research was to examine the impact of child welfare workers' individual factors and child welfare workers' perceptions of organizational cultural competence on child welfare workers' intent to leave the child welfare system. This study is a secondary analysis of data from a longitudinal study, building a stable, supported workforce: A comprehensive Workforce Project with New York's voluntary agencies. This research is grounded by empowerment theory, with a specific focus on the importance of self-efficacy and perceptions of power. Previous studies on child welfare worker turnover have focused on the more overt factors that predict turnover. The results of this study contribute to the knowledge about child welfare workforce turnover by considering the impact of race as it relates to organizational cultural competence.

Study of Staff Losses in Child Welfare and Family Service Agencies

Author : William B Tollen
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021498182
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Study of Staff Losses in Child Welfare and Family Service Agencies written by William B Tollen and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, William B. Tollen analyzes the reasons for high staff turnover in child welfare and family service agencies. The author provides statistical analysis of turnover rates and interviews with agency staff to identify the factors that contribute to staff losses. This study is a valuable resource for anyone interested in social work, human resources, or organizational behavior. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

On the Job in Child Welfare

Author : Floyd J. Alwon
Publisher : C W L A Press
ISBN 13 : 9781587601248
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book On the Job in Child Welfare written by Floyd J. Alwon and published by C W L A Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the secret to reducing staff turnover? Through case studies, learn what other child welfare agencies have done to keep their employees on the job despite a lack of resources. Five sections explore strategies that improve retention and outcomes.

Psychosocial Safety Climate

Author : Maureen F. Dollard
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030203190
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Psychosocial Safety Climate written by Maureen F. Dollard and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-24 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a valuable, comprehensive and unique reference text on Psychosocial Safety Climate (PSC), a new work stress theory. It proposes a new PSC theory concerning the corporate climate for workers’ psychological health, its origins and implications for work stress, and provides a critique of current research and theories. It provides a comprehensive review of all PSC studies to date. The chapters discuss state-of-the-art empirical evidence testing PSC theory in relation to management roles, organisational resilience, corruption, organisational status, cultural perspectives, illegitimate tasks, high PSC work groups, PSC variability in work groups, etc. They investigate outcomes such as psychological distress, emotional exhaustion, depression, worry, engagement, health, cognitive decline, personal initiative, boredom, cynicism, sickness absence, and productivity loss, in various workplace settings across many countries. This unique book allows practitioners to rapidly update practical measures, benchmarks and processes, and provides students and trainees with an introduction to PSC and important concepts and methods, quantitative and qualitative, in occupational health with leads to further sources. Students as well as experts on occupational health and safety, human resource management, occupational health psychology, organisational psychology and practitioners, unions and policy makers will find this book highly informative. It covers relevant materials for undergraduate and postgraduate education, drawing upon the concepts, topics and methods (diary, multilevel, longitudinal, qualitative, data linkage) within the multidisciplinary occupational health area.

Strengthening the Retention of Child Protection Workers

Author : Kenneth Burns
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3867418292
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book Strengthening the Retention of Child Protection Workers written by Kenneth Burns and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Child Welfare Challenge

Author : Peter J. Pecora
Publisher : AldineTransaction
ISBN 13 : 0202363864
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Child Welfare Challenge written by Peter J. Pecora and published by AldineTransaction. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within a historical and contemporary context, this book examines major policy practice and research issues as they jointly shape child welfare practice and its future. In addition to describing the major problems facing the field, the book highlights service innovations that have been developed in recent years. The resulting picture is encouraging, especially if certain major program reforms I are implemented and agencies are able to concentrate resources in a focused manner. The volume emphasizes families and children whose primary recourse to services has been through publicly funded child welfare agencies. The book considers historical areas of service—foster care and adoptions, in-home family-centered services, child-protective services, and residential services—where social work has an important role. Authors address the many fields of practice in which child and family services are provided or that involve substantial numbers of social work programs, such as services to adolescent parents, child mental health, education, and juvenile justice agencies. This new edition will continue to serve as a fundamental introduction for new practitioners, as well as summary of recent developments for experienced practitioners.

Factors Contributing to High Employee Turnover Among Child Welfare and Mental Health Practitioners

Author : Adriana G. Gonzalez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781369845549
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Factors Contributing to High Employee Turnover Among Child Welfare and Mental Health Practitioners written by Adriana G. Gonzalez and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High rates of employee turnover are interfering with the well-being of the individuals relying on these services to address their needs. It appears a cultural shift within the profession may be attributing to issue. Additional research is needed to understand the factors contributing to the high rates of turnover, and to explore strategies to ensure a systemic response to the issues of child abuse and mental health.

Factors Affecting Child Protective Services' Low Retention Rates and High Turnover Rates in Child Welfare

Author : Lise R.R. Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Factors Affecting Child Protective Services' Low Retention Rates and High Turnover Rates in Child Welfare written by Lise R.R. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study used a mix-method research design to investigate the high turnover rates and low child welfare retention rates. Specifically, the study sought to determine if relationships exist between job satisfaction, supportive supervision, and turnover intention. Data revealed a strong, negative statistical relationship between job satisfaction and turnover intention. When CPS child welfare workers are satisfied with their jobs, they stay with the organization. There is no doubt that the child welfare industry has high-risk challenges. High turnover and low retention rates go beyond a national problem, and it is suggested that decision-makers consider making changes to maintain a robust workforce.

Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System

Author : Alan J. Dettlaff
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030543145
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System written by Alan J. Dettlaff and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines existing research documenting racial disproportionality and disparities in child welfare systems, the underlying factors that contribute to these phenomena and the harms that result at both the individual and community levels. It reviews multiple forms of interventions designed to prevent and reduce disproportionality, particularly in states and jurisdictions that have seen meaningful change. With contributions from authorities and leaders in the field, this volume serves as the authoritative volume on the complex issue of child maltreatment and child welfare. It offers a central source of information for students and practitioners who are seeking understanding on how structural and institutional racism can be addressed in public systems.

Factors Influencing Retention of Child Welfare Staff

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book Factors Influencing Retention of Child Welfare Staff written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The well-being of children served by the child welfare system is put at risk by the problems child welfare agencies have in recruiting and retaining competent staff. Staff turnover results in staff shortages and high caseloads which impair workers' abilities to perform their jobs effectively. This research review was undertaken to answer the question: What conditions and strategies influence the retention of staff in public child welfare? The study addresses both personal and organizational factors affecting staff turnover, and identifies a number of effective recruitment and retention strategies that child welfare agencies can implement to address this problem.

Examining Burnout and Retention in Public Child Welfare

Author : Meghan Giuliano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Examining Burnout and Retention in Public Child Welfare written by Meghan Giuliano and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study addresses the following research question: Examining burnout and retention in public child welfare. The State of Connecticut was chosen as the focus of the study because only twenty-eight percent of Connecticut’s public child welfare workforce is made up of social workers with BSW or MSW degrees (Department of Children and Families, 2012). The percentage of Connecticut social workers at the Connecticut Department of Children and Families is below the national average of 40% of social workers employed in other public child welfare agencies. Public Child Welfare agencies should ensure that the employees/workers are qualified to engage with children and families and deliver the most appropriate service. This Analytical Thesis Project explored educational standards, turnover and job retention and burnout in public child welfare systems. This writer explored research conducted on different theories of burnout and child welfare. This research suggested that Masters in Social Workers learn these tools to help reduce turnover as well as serve families involved in the child welfare system. By using these tools the child welfare agencies would reduce turnover and increase retention.