The University of Nebraska-Lincoln established the Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development with funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families-Children’s Bureau. Under the leadership of Michelle Graef, research professor in the Center on Children, Families and the Law, this multidisciplinary project studies and tests promising strategies to help child welfare agencies recruit and retain staff workers. Nebraska collaborates with three national child welfare consultants and researchers at the University of Colorado, Denver; University of Louisville; and University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The center draws on a range of expertise, including social work, industrial organizational psychology, human resource management, educational psychology, implementation science and the law.
