Illuminating Pathways to Child Welfare

Educational Pathways: Measuring Workforce Education and Experience to Illuminate Pathways to Child Welfare

Some child welfare agencies lack guidance on the types of employee information to collect and track, how to maintain it, and how to analyze and share findings in impactful ways that can inform education, training, and human resources planning efforts. The purpose of this document is to provide such guidance. We outline what employee information would be helpful for agencies to collect data about, how best to measure each type of variable, when in the employee lifecycle this data should be collected, and how often data should be inventoried and updated. We also provide some examples of how this type of data could be used to analyze and illuminate educational pathways to the child welfare workforce.