All We Need is Love…and Time
Dedicated to "transformation" and the work we do to improve service for families, children, and clients. By Bill Bott and Lori Wolff
An Ounce of Prevention is Worth …
Child welfare has a pipe problem. Our pipes can't handle this much pressure... But there's another way, a way to relive the pressure and unleash the amazing internal motivation of our people ... and it starts with fixing the plumbing.
Where are those outcomes I ordered?
It’s a little hard to remember what life was like before Amazon two-day shipping.
Modernization Is Desperately Needed … But It’s Not Enough
While new technology can help us with everything from tracking work to enhancing our safety models, by itself it’s not enough.
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.
Child Welfare’s Pipe Problem: How Relieving the Pressure Can Ignite the Workforce’s Ability to Do Its Job
Child welfare has a pipe problem. Our pipes can't handle this much pressure... But there's another way, a way to relive the pressure and unleash the amazing internal motivation of our people ... and it starts with fixing the plumbing.
Child Welfare Capacity Crisis
As we work with child welfare agencies across the country to help tackle the capacity crisis, here's a glimpse of what we're learning.
A Capacity Crisis Risks Implementation of Family First
Only by addressing the capacity crisis up front, before changing practice, can the goals of Family First be achieved. At Change...
One and Done: The Strategy and Measures You Need to Make Your Call Center Work
In the face of increased customer demand and decreased resources, many human service agencies have turned to call centers in the hopes of serving more customers at less cost. What these agencies are quickly discovering is that phone centers actually drive up costs while killing employee and customer satisfaction at the exact same time. How [...]
The Unintended Consequences of Improvement
Sometimes when we make reforms, government jobs get better too.