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Fairfax County Department of Family Services

Fairfax County (VA) Department of Family Services

Fairfax County Department of Family Services (DFS), Children, Youth and Families (CYF) Division is a county administered child welfare system in the commonwealth of Virginia. They have 260 employees and are partnering with the QIC-WA to gain evidence about which workforce strategies are yielding positive results. They have a team dedicated to workforce support and seek to invest their time and resources in strategies that effectively address challenges such as staff turnover, need for consistent onboarding practices, and need for support for supervisors.

2025 Progress Update

This short video highlights the steps the Fairfax County DCYF has taken to better under the needs of their workforce, develop a data dashboard, and work as a team to continue to support their workforce.

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The work with the QIC-WA team to do the needs assessment has been hugely valuable for us. Working with the team really gave us that pause to take this one step at a time as we go through the needs assessment and really think about what is it that we would like to evaluate? What is it that we have the most questions about? What is it that would really help us to have someone from the outside help us look at?

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Allison Lowry
Assistant Division Director for Operations, Children, Youth and Families Division, Fairfax County Department of Family Services