The Jordan Institute for Families is committed to helping you retain the highest-caliber and most stable child welfare workforce possible. Our Staying Power! training modules, video and toolkits are designed to help you do this. R&R products are available for general use.
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Show the Realistic Job Preview (RJP) to help applicants decide whether public child welfare work is right for them. Our RJP, “An Invitation to Choose,” is a job-candidate selection tool designed to help North Carolina child welfare agencies recruit and retain a qualified and committed workforce. Prospective workers in child welfare need a candid assessment of the field in order to determine whether child welfare work is a good fit for them.
The “An Invitation to Choose” DVD features 33 minutes of on-the-job interviews with child welfare workers talking openly about both the challenges and the rewards of their work. The interviews offer a realistic overview of what it’s like “out in the trenches” of child welfare, giving prospective candidates a chance to understand whether the long hours, the paperwork, and the challenges and rewards of child welfare work are right for them.
The R&R Project has developed three training modules to equip child welfare supervisors, directors, and trainers with tools for transferring new skills to the agency. These interactive modules are designed to augment and amplify retention practices.
Enhance your ability as a supervisor and manager to retain qualified child welfare workers. This three-day curriculum includes notes for trainers and handouts for participants.
Learn techniques for keeping child welfare staff motivated, interested, and, most importantly, on the job! This one-day seminar includes training notes for facilitators and handouts for participants.
Help child welfare trainers increase your county’s long-term capacity for improving recruitment, selection, and retention of child welfare workers.
Recruitment and selection toolkits are designed to aid public child welfare agencies in increasing the number and quality of candidates for child welfare positions.
Recruit from a pool of qualified applicants for child welfare positions.
The recruitment toolkit includes flyers, posters, brochures, and two public service announcements, designed for distribution to local television stations to encourage interest in applying for child welfare work.
Get the right person in the right job using a three-pronged approach: a standard interview, a fact-finding interview, and a written exercise.
There’s no point in a training program without good follow-up to help you implement all you’ve learned. Technical assistance—offering ongoing consultation to improve your ability to recruit, select, and retain a qualified staff—will be made available to participating supervisors, agency directors, managers, and trainers during the final phase of the study to ensure a fluid and constant transfer of learning. When the curriculum is complete, technical assistance will be made available to non-participating agencies.
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