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Workforce Support
Front-line staff play a central role in our efforts to ensure the safety and well-being of children and families. The rewards of the work can be great—but so, too, can be stressors related to organizational climate, workload, and physical and psychological safety. When workers leave, it is not only costly to our systems but disruptive to the children and families those workers serve. Learn more about strategies for supporting and stabilizing the workforce.
Featured Resources
Multidimensional Human Services Workplace Stress
Understanding the complex sources of stress can help us address it effectively.
Taking an Organizational Approach to Secondary Traumatic Stress
Children's Bureau Champion Maine Behavioral Healthcare's team members discuss their approach to helping organizations make a plan to head off secondary traumatic stress in the workplace.
Workforce Well-being—Centering Yourself to Better Support Others
Dr. Amelia Franck Meyer presents practical tips and tools for integrating well-being into our lives, our work, and our organizations to allow us to support those we serve in sustainable ways.
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Videos and Social Media
- Taking an Organizational Approach to Secondary Traumatic Stress
Organizations can put plans and strategies in place to head off secondary traumatic stress in the workplace. - Why Addressing STS in the Workforce is Important
Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) erodes the health and effectiveness of our workforce.
Tools and Tip Sheets
- Supporting Child Welfare Staff: The First Three Months [PDF]
This document captures key concepts and what we heard from the field from our Digital Dialogue on on-supporting new child welfare staff members.
Digital Dialogue Recordings
- Preventing and Healing from Secondary Traumatic Stress: Taking an Organizational Approach
Maine Behavioral Healthcare is working with child and family-serving organizations across the state to implement practices and protocols for workers experiencing secondary traumatic stress. - Workforce Well-being—Centering Yourself to Better Support Others
Dr. Amelia Franck Meyer presents practical tips and tools for integrating well-being into our lives, our work, and our organizations to allow us to support those we serve in sustainable ways. - Supporting Child Welfare Staff: The Critical First Three Months
Organizational strategies for orienting new staff to a trauma-exposed work environment and supporting them during those critical first 3 months.
External Resources
Partners
- National Child Welfare Workforce Institute (NCWWI)
NCWWI promotes organizational interventions focused on developing and retaining a diverse and effective workforce - National Child Traumatic Stress Network
The Network’s website is a resource for the public, professionals, and others who care about children and are concerned about child traumatic stress. - Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development (QIC-WD)
The QIC-WD synthesizes the current state of trends and research and generate new knowledge about effective strategies to improve workforce outcomes.
