Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services

The Critical Role of Child Welfare Workers
Posted on September 21, 2020
This short blog post and video highlight the critical role that child welfare workers play on the frontlines; managing threats to their own safety while working to keep children safe.
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Perspectives from a Permanency Team
Posted on September 15, 2020
Louisiana’s redesign includes the creation of permanency teams - here are what three permanency team members have to say about their experience with the redesign.
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Frontline Job Redesign

Louisiana: Redesigning the Child Welfare Worker Job

The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services redesigned the child welfare worker job to strengthen their workforce and reduce worker turnover. DCFS worked with the QIC-WD to create a new job, the Child Welfare Team Specialist, and reorganize workers into Permanency and Prevention teams.  This video discusses the challenges DCFS faced related to turnover and how the job redesign is changing the way they work. DCFS staff share their experience with the intervention being tested by the QIC-WD.   

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Louisiana Progress Update - Redesigning the Child Welfare Worker Position
Posted on July 30, 2020
Louisiana DCFS is working with the QIC-WD on a job redesign project - this post summarizes what has been accomplished and learned during the initial roll out.
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Perspectives from a Prevention Team
Posted on July 22, 2020
Louisiana’s redesign includes the creation of prevention teams - here are what three prevention team members have to say about their experience with the redesign.
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Why the Louisiana DCFS decided to apply to be a QIC-WD site

A leader from the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) discusses why it is important to have a strong child welfare workforce and partner with the QIC-WD.

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Louisiana Selects a Workforce Intervention: Job Redesign & Teaming
Posted on March 12, 2019
To strengthen its workforce, Louisiana will implement “Job Redesign and Teaming” as its QIC-WD intervention.
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Louisiana: Job Redesign
Posted on January 16, 2019
Job redesign is and the connection between job characteristics and organizational outcomes
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QIC-WD Site Intervention Selection – Fall 2018
Posted on October 18, 2018
The QIC-WD sites have selected their workforce interventions! Learn about the range of interventions that will be implemented and tested to build knowledge about what works to improve worker retention in the field of child welfare.
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