Evaluation and Data Use

The Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development: Bridging the Research–Practice Gap in Child Welfare
Megan Paul, Michelle Graef, and Robert Blagg discuss how using I-O psychology research and best practices improved workforce outcomes across 36 child welfare agencies.
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Measuring Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - Tips for Child Welfare Professionals
This QIC-Tip discusses strategies to measure diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) which can lead to an understanding of the composition, needs, and perspectives of the workforce.
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Measuring Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
How do you define and measure diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)?
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HR and Child Welfare Data – Building Connections to Improve Practice
The QIC-WD has written and produced videos about and the importance of bringing HR to the table to address child welfare workforce issues, as featured in this blog post.
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Announcing Workforce Data Dashboard Partner Sites
The QIC-WD is working with select child welfare agencies to create data dashboards from their workforce data related to recruitment, development, and retention.
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A Quick Guide to Workforce Analytics for Child Welfare Agencies
This blog post is a quick guide to workforce analytics for child welfare agencies and features many of the resources produced as part of the Child Welfare Workforce Analytics Institute.
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Assessing your Workforce Needs
It is worth the time to understand the root causes of your agency’s child welfare workforce problems. This post highlights tools to guide your needs assessment and use data to pinpoint challenges.
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Technology, Case Practice, and Turnover: Early Findings from Virginia
This blog post describes the study methods used and highlights early findings related to caseworkers' use of an app to support their work.
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Untapped Potential for Child Welfare Administrative Data
This QIC-Take highlights some of our observations of opportunities worthy of consideration during system redesigns or implementation of expanded data exchanges to answer workforce questions and related child welfare outcomes.
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Data Segmentation
There are a variety of different ways to slice and dice your child welfare workforce data. Learn more about data segmentation in this blog post, video, and downloadable resource.
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