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Effectively Using & Sharing Data, Quality Improvement Center For Workforce Development (Qic-Wd)
Effectively Using & Sharing Data, Quality Improvement Center For Workforce Development (Qic-Wd)
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The QIC-WD recently had the opportunity to talk with a group of human services training evaluators in Baltimore about how to effectively use and share data. The QIC-WD has a dissemination plan and data visualization experts (learn more here) to help our team and our sites use and share data for a variety of purposes. We shared the following tips to help evaluators determine what to share, when, and why.
- Plan for dissemination – that is, identify who needs the information and how best to get it to them.
- Consider who is in your target audience and how they …
Conducting Comprehensive Workforce Needs Assessments In Child Welfare, Megan Paul, Courtney Harrison
Conducting Comprehensive Workforce Needs Assessments In Child Welfare, Megan Paul, Courtney Harrison
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Staff recruitment, selection, and retention are persistent challenges for many child welfare agencies. Agency directors recognize these challenges but often lack the capacity or strong relationships with human resources (HR) to hire and keep the right child welfare staff. The lack of evidence-based practices to address child welfare workforce issues compounds the situation. The Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development (QIC-WD) was created through a 5-year cooperative agreement with the Children's Bureau to advance knowledge about evidence-informed workforce interventions, test a variety of interventions in real-world settings, and examine how workforce stability is related to outcomes for children.
The QIC-WD …
Describing A Workforce Intervention, Anita Barbee
Describing A Workforce Intervention, Anita Barbee
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For the purpose of the Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development (QIC-WD), a workforce intervention is a structured set of activities aimed at solving an identified cause of frontline worker turnover. Some interventions, or parts of interventions, have been created in other settings and are being adopted or adapted for the QIC-WD program. Other interventions are being developed collaboratively by the QIC-WD and site implementation teams. All include the four key components that are the hallmark of strong interventions. The four key components of strong interventions include:
1) A description of the theoretical base upon which the actions in the …