Abstract
Summary There is a workforce crisis in child welfare (Alwon & Reitz, 2000). Child welfare agencies throughout the country are challenged to recruit and retain competent child welfare staff to carry out their adoption, family support, foster care, protective service and family preservation programs. Child welfare administrators want to ensure that their current workforce has the necessary training and are also looking for creative strategies to bring new workers into their agencies. Although there is a long history of involvement of professional social workers in the child welfare field, declassification of positions, high caseloads, poor working conditions and a lack of focus on child welfare content within social work education programs led to a distancing between the two.
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