About the Conference:

August 5-6, 2008
University of Denver, CO

Who attended?
Child Welfare managers, administrators, and supervisors from private and public agencies; Human Resources personnel who recruit child welfare staff; University Personnel involved with child welfare programs.

• The Scaling the Summit Institute explored the varied terrain of strategies, approaches, and projects to address recruitment, selection, and retention issues with child welfare staff.
• Participants learned practical ways that have some evidence of success for addressing these critical issues in order to maximize their agencies own peak performance.
• The Institute encouraged and facilitated action planning by the team participants so that information learned at the Institute translates into results for the agency.

(view the PDF Conference Brochure)

The Scaling the Summit Institute was presented by the Western Regional Recruitment & Retention Project and was partially funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Children’s Bureau.

The Western Regional Recruitment and Retention Project (WRRRP) developed and managed by the Butler Institute for Families at the Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver, addressed recruitment, selection, and retention issues in five rural and urban sites in the greater Rocky Mountain region – specifically in Colorado, Arizona, and Wyoming.

Comprehensive organizational assessments guided a strategic approach to the issues of recruitment, selection, and retention. Project staff, together with a planning team in each agency, completed a thorough planning process using the information from the organizational assessments to develop site-specific strategic plans of needs, priorities and training interventions.

For more information, contact Charmaine Brittain at Charmaine.Brittain@du.edu or 303.871.6336.