National Child Welfare Workforce Institute

Our purpose is to develop and support a child welfare workforce that can equitably meet the needs of the most vulnerable children and families. NCWWI promotes organizational interventions focused on developing and retaining a diverse and effective workforce by supporting partnerships among public and tribal child welfare programs and schools of social work. NCWWI is supporting seven Workforce Excellence sites (child welfare programs and their university partners) and nine Schools of Social Work to build an effective, sustainable child welfare workforce. The NCWWI Workforce Excellence sites are engaged in systems change efforts that include evaluating the health of their organization, creating stipend plans with their university partners, and using evidence-informed strategies to build the leadership skills of their workforce.

In my role, I lead a team that is supporting partnerships between Schools of Social Work and public/tribal child welfare programs in developing traineeships that prepare social work students to join the child welfare workforce with a focus on leadership development and recruitment. Nine schools of social work are engaged with child welfare organizations. Three of the child welfare organizations are tribal.

In addition to supporting social work traineeships, each site also has extensive workforce excellence projects.

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Project Contact:

  • Cheryl Williams-Hecksel
  • Social Work
  • College of Social Science


Partners

  • Arkansas Department of Children and Family Services
  • Erie County Child Welfare
  • Georgia Department of Family and Children Services
  • Georgia State University
  • U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
  • University at Albany
  • University of Arkansas Little Rock
  • University of Georgia Athens
  • University of Minnesota Duluth
  • University of North Dakota
  • University of Oklahoma Tulsa
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • University of Southern Maine
  • NCWWI is funded through a cooperative agreement with the Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children & Families, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Our partners are five universities committed to principles of collaboration. These Universities include University at Albany a State University of New York



Report of calendar year 2021 activity.