April 29, 2010

Building a Model and Framework for Child Welfare Supervision

The report, Building a Model and Framework for Child Welfare Supervision, written by Peg Hess, Susan Kanak, and Julie Atkins, provides a roadmap for agency leaders as they work through ways to build and sustain effective child welfare supervision in their agencies. The main topics discusses in this report are the 7 elements of an emerging model for child welfare supervision, 4 components of an organizational framework that supports effective supervision in child welfare, and appendices that outline methodology, literature review, interview protocols, and sample hob descriptions. After reading this report, agencies should be familiar with the emerging model of child welfare supervision that if implemented by agencies, could radically improve an agencies? ability to serve the needs of children and families wherever they go.