NCWWI Webinars

Innovations Exchanges

This series of Innovations Exchanges, held monthly from July through November 2020, builds on NCWWI's Supporting the Virtual Workforce webinar series by providing child welfare leaders (supervisors, managers, directors, and administrators) a forum to discuss what we've learned and share best practices.

Leadership and Supervision
PowerPoint Slides
Summary of Participant Feedback and Recommendations

Inclusivity, Racial Equity, and Community Engagement
PowerPoint Slides
Summary of Participant Discussions

Practice Supports
PowerPoint Slides
Summary of Participant Discussions

Work Conditions, Benefits, and Organizational Culture/Climate
PowerPoint Slides
Summary of Participant Discussions

Education and Professional Development
PowerPoint Slides
Summary of Participant Discussions

Supporting the Virtual Workforce
Child welfare programs are scrambling to address the new reality of a virtual workforce by converting existing workforce development activities to online formats while planning to maintain high quality services for families and job satisfaction for employees. NCWWI will host a series of 75-minute webinars, providing a platform for child welfare colleagues to exchange ideas, innovations, and resources for supporting a workforce that has now become virtual. NCWWI facilitators will help participants to share what they are learning about this new environment and ask questions of those who have already moved into these virtual spaces.

Session One: Virtual Supervision
With the child welfare workforce currently working from home, supervision is more important than ever to ensure continued quality service provision and to keep children safe and families together. How is supervision changing to respond to this new virtual world? What adjustments are being made? This webinar offers expert guidance on virtual supervision and provides opportunities for participants to ask questions and exchange information.
Session Two: Well-being
In these uncertain times, we are all presented with new concerns about ourselves, our teams, and those we love. In this time of unprecedented global crisis, our national child welfare workforce and leaders also find themselves facing new challenges and stressors as everything about the old “normal” is changing. In this session, Dr. Amelia Franck Meyer will provide hopeful perspectives, concrete action steps and tools, and words of comfort and support for our workforce to help them manage through this crisis. Participants will receive ideas to cope and prepare to be in the best position and condition possible as we begin to rebuild together.
- Webinar Recording
- PowerPoint Slides
- Chatlog Summary
- Alia Innovations Website
- Alia Microvideos
- Self-care and Compassion Satisfaction Scales
  - Professional Quality of Life Scale (PROQOL)
  - Headington Self-care Inventory
- Additional Self-care Resources
Session Three: Physical, Emotional, and Psychological Safety
April 21 and April 24, 2020

During the COVID-19 crisis, child welfare workers provide critical services to their communities. As essential public servants, it is important that they have systems in place to ensure their safety during home visits and working in the field. This session explores how child welfare programs are innovating to protect their frontline workers’ physical, emotional, and psychological safety.
Session Four: Converting Classroom Training from In-person to Online
April 28, 2020 and May 1, 2020

Much of child welfare professional development, especially foundational training for new workers, takes place in-person. Because of the current situation, training needs to be available online in order to continue to meet the needs of our workforce. This webinar will provide information on converting in-person experiences to virtual learning platforms, as almost anything that can be taught in the classroom can also go online (really!). Learn tips, tricks, and ways to overcome barriers. We will also provide opportunities for webinar participants to ask questions and share information and resources.
Session Five: Coaching Remotely
May 5 and May 8, 2020

Coaching in the child welfare workforce often happens face-to-face or in context of daily work activities. With our shift to virtual work, face-to-face contact may have been curtailed but connecting and supporting growth does not need to stop. This session will explore what stays the same and what adjustments must be made when coaching remotely.
Session Six: Using Social Media and Technology to Engage Children, Youth, and Families
May 12 and May 15, 2020

During the COVID-19 crisis, child welfare workers are using technology to communicate with families, and foster parents are using technology to connect youth in their care to services and maintain connection between youth and their biological families. This webinar offers considerations and best practices to support child welfare workers as they use technology with the families they serve.

Past Webinar Series

Meaningful Workforce Development: Making it Happen (2019)

Webinar Recording

Held on Thursday, September 26, 2019, in this webinar you will learn about NCWWI’s newly revised workforce development framework as applied to the State of Indiana. Meaningful workforce development implies more than just a quick-fix, but a long-term, robust, and sustainable approach to workforce development that really makes a difference. Hear LaTrece Thompson, Deputy Director of Staff Development, describe Indiana’s journey to improve their workforce development approach through the lens of the NCWWI framework, exploring various workforce development components and a phased implementation approach that can also be applied to your jurisdiction.
Dismantling Racial Inequity Through Child Welfare Systems Change (2017-2018)
NCWWI co-hosted this 6-part webinar series with the Center for the Study of Social Policy. This series features workforce and organizational development stories and strategies to achieve racial equity.
1. Using an Institutional Analysis to Identify Core Issues and Spur Change - July 2017
2. Community Collaboration & Grassroots Effort (Cross-systems & Tribal Partnerships) - September 2017
3. A Data-Driven Approach to Improving Outcomes for Black Girls in Child Welfare - December 2017
4. Slow and Steady Wins the RACE of Child Welfare Equity - February 2018
5. Strengthening Our Efforts Through Partnerships with Academia - June 2018
6. Sustaining Racial Equity Improvements in Child Welfare - September 26, 2018
Mind the Gap: Addressing Child Welfare Challenges with Workforce Development Strategies (2014-2017)
Running from 2014-2017, this 10-part webinar series showcases child welfare issues, and a range of workforce development strategies that can be used to address and ameliorate them. The series launched with an overview of the NCWWI Workforce Development Framework (WDF) and its application for the field. Subsequent sessions feature agency and university leaders sharing different gap-closing workforce development strategies related to the 10 WDF components as described in the 2014 to 2019 version of the WDF.
Making a Difference: NCWWI Impact & Lessons Learned (2013)
What Works for the Workforce: Leadership Competencies in Action (2011-2013)

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