Building a Model and Framework for Child Welfare Supervision

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Job responsibilityMost importantto you (andreasons)Important toyouNot importantto you (andreasons)Not applicable/Not awaredd. Provide leadership within communityee.ff.9a. Are there additional responsibilities that your supervisor’s job includes? If so, please listabove and rateOBSTACLES AND SUPPORTS FOR EFFECTIVE SUPERVISION10. What do you perceive to be the most serious obstacles to the ability of the child welfaresupervisors in your agency to carry out their current job responsibilities effectively?Probe for: training and information sharing, administrative/fiscal, recruitment andretention/preventing stress/enhancing morale, salary/incentives, facilitating communicationand collaboration, enhancing/managing/evaluating caseworker performance, anticipating andmanaging risk, ethics in supervision, selecting model of supervision10a. Have these obstacles been addressed? If so, how, and with what outcome?10b. Are you aware of obstacles to supervisors’ ability to carry out their responsibilities that theagency has been unable to address? Please describe.11. What (or who in what position) do you perceive to be the greatest supports to agency childwelfare supervisors in carrying out their responsibilities effectively?Probe for: training and information sharing, administrative/fiscal, recruitment andretention/preventing stress/enhancing morale, salary/incentives, facilitating communicationand collaboration, enhancing/managing/evaluating caseworker performance, anticipating andmanaging risk, ethics in supervision, selecting model of supervision11a. Please describe in what ways these supports are helpful to supervisors.82
11b. Are there supports that child welfare supervisors have needed to carry out their jobresponsibilities that the agency has been unable to access?12. Are there written resources (training handouts, agency protocols, etc.) that you have observedto be particularly helpful to your supervisor in being effective? If yes, describe. Would you bewilling to provide a copy to us?13. In thinking about your career path, do you plan to become a child welfare supervisor? If not,why not? If so, what will you need to make that transition successful?14. Is there information I have not asked about that you believe is relevant to the ability of yoursupervisor to meet your needs as a caseworker and to provide effective child welfaresupervision? If so, please describe.83
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AcknowledgementsThis report, Buildi
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Executive SummaryA Call to Action f
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IntroductionWhy is a Model of Child
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• a continuum of professional dev
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• providing knowledge and securit
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necessary, and providing permanency
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Table 1. Job Responsibilities Ranke
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Manage caseloads in the supervisor
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Supportive Supervision Responsibili
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Element 4Mandate explicit, manageab
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Element 7Support supervisors in the
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Several activities are included to
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Table 2. Job Responsibility Data Co
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include "acknowledging effective pe
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Component 2A model of supervisory p
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Page 40 and 41: A Continuum of Initial and Ongoing
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Page 44 and 45: Sources CitedAllnoch, A. (1998, Feb
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Page 66 and 67: • Hiring diverse staff• Trainin
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