In collaboration with the Children’s Bureau
Funded by the United States Department of Health & Human Services, Administration for Children & Families, Children’s Bureau in October 2023, the newly launched CWEL will provide site-specific technical assistance to jurisdictions to support the workforce and improve recruitment, retention, and well-being.
CWEL reflects ACF’s answer to the continued focus and commitment to support the child welfare workforce.
Who is the child welfare workforce?
The child welfare workforce includes case managers, supervisors, tribal child welfare professionals, public agency administrators, CPS, and anyone else working for children and families connected to foster care and adoption.
Importantly, the child welfare workforce is comprised of more than people with social worker degrees. Professionals with human service degrees like criminology, psychology, and sociology also contribute to supporting children and families across the country.
If this sounds like you, you’re in the right place. At CWEL, we’re here to support professionals in adoption and foster care agencies, state systems, and tribes to build teams in which people thrive.
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“Leaders can be key drivers of needed systems change in the child welfare workforce. We are dedicated to crafting a future where every professional in the workforce possesses the essential tools, coaching, training, and data for effective leadership.”
“We owe it to our children and families to create a workforce improves the capacity of child welfare professionals to provide the support requested by our communities.”
“I am excited and encouraged that OICWA’s partnership with CWEL will provide support and leadership coaching opportunities to tribal child welfare programs.”
