Competency-based Personnel Selection

Oklahoma Department of Human Services
Oklahoma Department of Human Services

The Oklahoma Department of Human Services, worked with the QIC-WD to standardize their child welfare hiring practices. This video highlights how they created their new competency-based selection process and shares the experiences of staff and leaders who’ve participated in the new process.


Site Resources

These resources provide an overview of the QIC-WD’s work with the site. Resources include manuals, guidance documents, logic models, and other implementation tools as well summaries of the intervention, evaluation, implementation, and theory of change.


Site Profile

This two-page summary provides an overview of the site’s workforce and its challenges retaining child welfare workers. Learn more about the intervention selected to strengthen the workforce and the evaluation that will be conducted 2019 – 2021 to increase our collective understanding of how to improve child welfare workforce outcomes.



WIE Team

Megan Paul
Workforce Lead
Penny Putnam Collins
Implementation Lead
Cynthia Parry photo
Evaluation Lead