Team FCCS Insider News

Every member and every position in Team FCCS is seen as a child welfare professional, with a hope that each employee feels safe, supported, respected, and valued. Join us in celebrating our newest team members and honoring those who have been promoted. December 2024 CONGRATUALTIONS ON THESE PROMOTIONS & TRANSFERS: Kelly Evans - Child Welfare Caseworker 4/Screening Alyssa Veopaseuth - Child Welfare Caseworker 4/Screening Kimberly Giles - Administrative Assistant 1/Visitation & STS Department Qualene Carter - Child Welfare Caseworker Supervisor 2/Screening Faiza Abdi - Child Welfare Caseworker 2/Intake WELCOME TO THESE NEW EMPLOYEES: Rhyleigh Hilyard - Child Welfare Caseworker 1/Intake & Investigations Maritza Reid - Child Welfare Caseworker 1/Intake & Investigations Annika Smith - Child Welfare Caseworker 1/Intake & Investigations Caroline Vineyard - Child Welfare Caseworker 2/Intake & Investigations Sarah Weeks - Child Welfare Caseworker 1/Intake & Investiga...

The National Partnership for Child Safety (NPCS), a quality improvement collaborative with a mission to improve child safety and prevent child maltreatment fatalities, provided its 2024 year-end update on partnership activities related to strengthening families and promoting safety science and innovations in child welfare. To facilitate data-sharing across jurisdictions, NPCS incorporates tools such as the Safe Systems Improvement Tool (SSIT) which is a retrospective critical incident review tool designed for use in child welfare systems. Learnings from aggregated SSIT data can be leveraged into systems-level quality improvement as part of an evidence-based safety science approach to enhancing child safety.  Additional data analysis opportunities are available through the NPCS safety culture survey , which measures workforce domains, such as emotional exhaustion, psychological safety , stress recognition, and workplace connectedness , which can all contribute to team members’ decis...