Fact Sheet: Unacknowledged Protectors: Consequences and Costs of Turnover in the Child Welfare Workforce – April 2021


Front-line workers, those we think of as essential in our communities and across the Commonwealth, include the child welfare caseworkers who hold high-stress, low-reward jobs to help the children and families they serve. However, high rates of turnover in this field create long-term consequences in practice, policy and state and county budgets.

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