Generalist skills for Child Welfare workers:
-Engaging parents and extended families in problem-solving
-Home visitations
- Child and family assessments
-Care planning and follow-up
-Crisis intervention
-Psychosocial support and counseling
-Consultations with children, school, health clinic, and other community visitations
-Individual and community advocacy -community mobilization
-Teaching home management and parenting skills
-Helping people access resources like housing, job training, and employment
Child protection workers need specialized skills:
-In risk assessment
-Placement services
-Family reunification
-Foster and adoptive parent recruitment, assessment, placement, and follow-up
Social work supervisors and managersneed advanced skills in:
-Program planning and M&E
-Community outreach, engagement, and planning
-Public and media relations and cross-system collaboration
-Human resource management and evaluation
-Budgeting
