Eliminate Blind Spots to Improve Safety: More Eyes More Often
When the press writes about failures in the child welfare system, the tragedies are unique, but the pattern is often all too familiar. A family has been involved with the agency multiple times, signs of risk were missed, and the result is significant harm or even...
We Don’t Need Another Hero: Improve Capacity to Save Supervisors
Child welfare supervisors have an incredibly difficult job. One that is made even more complex by the broad role they play. It is exacerbated by a system that requires them to constantly invent, adjust, and react to changing staff, cases, and endless policy and...
Child Welfare’s Pipe Problem: How Relieving the Pressure Can Ignite the Workforce’s Ability to Do Its Job
For several years now, I have been fortunate to work with a phenomenal group of public servants dedicating this portion of their professional lives to the noble work of child welfare. What they’ve taught me is that, nationally, we are living in crisis. In an area...
