About Us
Welcome to the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute. Our purpose is to build the capacity of the nation’s child welfare workforce and improve outcomes for children, youth and families through activities that support the development of skilled child welfare leaders in public and tribal child welfare systems, and in private agencies that are contracted by the State to provide case management services that are traditionally provided by the public child welfare system. Our goals are to derive promising practices in workforce development, deliver child welfare leadership training for middle managers and supervisors, facilitate BSW and MSW traineeships, engage national peer networks, support strategic dissemination of effective and promising leadership and workforce practices, and advance knowledge through collaboration and evaluation.
NCWWI’s workforce development activities promote…
| Learning: Fostering continuous learning that is interactive, reflective and relevant |
| Leading: Cultivating diverse leadership at multiple levels within child welfare systems |
| Changing: Supporting change through workforce development and organizational capacity building |
NCWWI Vision
We envision a committed, competent and high-performing child welfare workforce that is
strengthened by professional education; - sustained through leadership development;
- supported by organizational practices that mirror Systems of Care principles;
- skilled at delivering effective and promising practices that improve outcomes for children, youth and families.
Collaboration: Partners & Advisors
NCWWI is funded through a cooperative agreement with the Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children & Families, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Our partners are nine universities committed to principles of collaboration who receive ongoing feedback from a group of national experts (National Advisory Committee). Our shared values are derived from a Systems of Care philosophy that is collaborative, community-based, inclusive and culturally responsive. Our consensus-based approach models what we hope to achieve with others.
Partners
University at Albany
Mary McCarthy, (Co-Principal Investigator), Katharine Briar-Lawson (Co-Principal Investigators), Sara Munson & Sharon Kollar
University of Denver
Cathryn Potter, Robin Leake, Nancy McDaniel & Charmaine Brittain
Fordham University
Virginia Strand, Stephanie Bosco-Ruggiero & Lyn Slater
University of Iowa
Miriam Landsman
University of Maryland
Nancy Dickinson (Project Director)
University of Michigan
Kathleen Faller & Robert Ortega
Michigan State University
Gary Anderson, Cheryl Williams-Hecksel, Suzanne Cross & Joanne Riebschleger
Portland State University
Katharine Cahn, Deborah Reed, Michelle Clinch & Nichole Culley
University of Southern Maine
Freda Bernotavicz, Sue Ebersten, Crystal French, Lee Lauritsen, DeeDee Reardon, Gretchen Robbins, Marshall Soloway & Laura Woods-Vachon
Children’s Bureau
Robert Lindecamp, Consultant, ICF International at the Children’s Bureau
Jane Morgan, Capacity Building Division Director
Randi Walters, NCWWI Federal Project Officer, Capacity Building Division
National Advisory Committee Members
Lynn Bell, Iowa Department of Human Services
Angela Braxton, Family Involvement Consultant
Misty Carlyle, Children’s Bureau, US Department of Health & Human Services
Mark Chappelle, Iowa Department of Human Services
Christine Craig, Children’s Bureau, US Department of Health & Human Services
Pamela Day, Child Welfare Information Gateway
Cecilia Fiermonte, Alliance for Children and Families
Edwin Gonzalez-Santin, Arizona State University, Office of American Indian Project
Kimberly Guercio, Baltimore County Department of Social Services
Ruth Heitsman, Family Involvement Consultant
Annette House, Missouri Children's Division
Rebecca Huffman, North Carolina Division of Social Services
Kathy Jones Kelley, American Public Human Services Association
Janice King, National Resource Center for Adoption
Shaun Lane, Illinois Department of Children & Family Services
Catherine Lawrence, School of Social Welfare, State University of New York at Albany
Roshelle Lewis, Erie County Department of Social Services (Retired)
Alice Lieberman, University of Kansas School of Social Welfare
Therese Roe Lund, National Resource Center for Child Protection
Natalie Mall, Jefferson County Department of Human Services, Division of Children, Youth & Families
Gary Mallon, National Resource Center for Permanency & Family Connections, Hunter College School of Social Work
Heidi McIntosh, ACYF, US Department of Health & Human Services
Linda Metsger, Butler Institute for Families, University of Denver
Marie Morilus-Black, DC Child & Family Services Agency
Linda Orrante, Solano County Health & Social Services Department
Cecilia Perry, American Federation of State, County & Municipal Workers
Siobhan Pietruszkiewicz, Louisiana State University School of Social Work
Judge Stephen Rideout (Retired)
Nancy Seibel, ZERO TO THREE
Brandi Stocksdale, Baltimore City Department of Social Services
Peter Watson, National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement
Evelyn Williams, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mary Williams, South Carolina Department of Social Services
Joan Levy Zlotnik, Social Work Policy Institute, NASW Foundation
A Service of the Children's Bureau, a member of the T/TA Network