Child Welfare

Listen in to learn how to use the tenants of Motivational Interviewing (MI) to engage parents who are ambivalent about changing their behavior. Using the “Spirit” of MI will help you build a collaborative relationship as well as compassion for the families you work with.

Listen to Dr. Cynthia Lietz, developer of the strength-based supervision model, share strategies for both supervisors and front-line case workers to engage in “courageous conversations”. Utilizing both crisis supervision opportunities and scheduled in-depth supervision meetings can improve the supervisor-direct report relationship and thus case management practices and outcomes.

This episode discusses the child welfare workforce - what it is like to work in the system with families in crisis while managing and juggling competing priorities and decisions. Listen to Dr. Dina Wilke, a child welfare workforce researcher and Timothy Morris, a child protective investigator, discuss the “impossible imperative”. They speak frankly about caseload severity, challenges in decision m...