Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) impacts both child welfare workers and agencies. This blog post highlights this issue and links to videos and tools agencies are using to address STS in the workforce.
Read about positive early findings related to coping, work-life balance, job satisfaction, intentions to stay, intentions to leave, and secondary traumatic stress.
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the child welfare workforce had to rapidly embrace technology to conduct mandatory visits and engage in supervision. This blog posts discusses necessary policy changes and strategies to keep the workforce working during
The child welfare workforce is charged with caring for others and the pandemic exasperated that work. This blog post highlights how workers need to manage the worry and stress of living and working in a pandemic.