Child welfare systems have historically dealt with the challenges of high employee turnover, but developing a workplace characterized by inclusive leadership is one way to keep workers on the job and ...

Across the country an estimated 20 to 40 percent of child welfare caseworkers leave their jobs every year while 90 percent of agencies report difficulty hiring and retaining qualified staff, with ...

Celine Gomez, a UC Davis graduate now at California State University, Northridge, is among the hundreds of individuals receiving stipends for undergraduate or graduate studies in social work through a ...

A child welfare worker is often the first person to respond to a child in need and among the last people to handle their case before they’re reunified with parents or placed in a loving, permanent ...

Researchers who examined Canadian child welfare data found that Black children were not only investigated at a higher rate ...

Western Michigan University is now offering a pathway for students interested in becoming child welfare professionals to learn more about child welfare-related work. Graduate students currently ...

It’s been more than a year since alarming numbers of child abuse deaths in Louisiana prompted lawmakers to demand changes at the Department of Children and Family Services, including more robust ...

Leaders at Idaho Department of Health and Welfare defend the way case workers handled the case of a newborn found dead in ...

Social workers demanding accountability from child welfare agency leaders had a multitude of grim reasons to stand up to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors Tuesday: the deaths of two San Jose ...

Child welfare staff in Louisiana dropped 6.9% since 2022 Shreveport lost 15.4% of positions, highest in the state Average monthly cases rose to 15.9 per worker in 2025 Staffing standards haven’t been ...