workforce

Kelly Harder argues that instead of hand wringing about turnover, it's time to accept it and adjust

Paul DiLorenzo writes about the lack of effort to educate the modern child welfare workforce about the history preceding them

For child welfare to better serve the behavioral health needs of kids in out-of-home care, we need to enact various solutions.

Dee Wilson and Toni Sebastian explore root causes for the alarming rates of turnover and job vacancies in child welfare

Apprenticeships offer a pathway to stable careers, and California is supporting the expansion of programs for vulnerable young adults.

Supervision is the heartbeat of a child welfare agency and in many places, it is on life support. It used to be one of the strongest pillars of our profession, but in recent years the supervisory role has found itself looking for a clear purpose or relevance to our goals of improvement and transformation.

Under a plan approved by the U.S. Department of Labor earlier this month, California counties will be able to provide more job-training and career-readiness services to current and former foster youth — a group that has long struggled with high rates of unemployment.

L.A. County's Youth@Work program provides vulnerable youth ages 14 to 24 with their first paid work experience as the economy re-opens.

Elizabeth Watson, who has a lengthy history in youth and family policy and income inequality, has been nominated to be the Biden administration’s point person to Congress and the states on labor issues.