Volume V considers key issues related to the workforce in child- and family-serving systems. Chapters examine the topics of leadership and supervision, worker turnover, workforce development, the well-being of professionals in the field, and cross-system collaboration.

Chapters include: 

Introduction
Peter Pecora

Chapter 1: Interdisciplinary Practice in Child- and Family-Serving Systems
Jon D. Phillips, Elizabeth Jurczak Goldsborough, Kalah M. Villagrana and Daniel J. Gibbs

Chapter 2: Building Socially Just Leadership in Urban Child Welfare
Christa C. Gilliam, Dana Burdnell Wilson and Sandra Stukes Chipungu

Chapter 3: The Future of Child Welfare Workforce Development
Katharine Briar-Lawson and Robin Leake

Chapter 4: Critical Praxis Using a Foundational Model: An Ecological Synthesis of Research of Organizational Factors on Public Child Welfare Workforce Retention and Turnover
William C. Wong

Chapter 5: The Dynamics and Skills of Child Welfare Supervision: The Parallel Process
Lawrence Shulman

Chapter 6: Supervising for Reflexivity and Analytical Thinking
Cynthia A. Lietz

Chapter 7: Secondary Traumatic Stress of Child Welfare Workers: Developing Individual and Agency Strategies for Well-Being and Self-Care
Jennifer Cornish Genovese and Xiafei Wang

Chapter 8: Beyond Self-Care: Understanding and Mitigating Secondary Trauma in Child Service Systems
Roy W. Van Tassell, Susan R. Schmidt, Elizabeth Claire Risch and Amanda Mitten

Chapter 9: Strategies for Implementing Interventions in Collaboration with Behavioral Health Providers
Alicia C. Bunger, Gretchen Clark Hammond, Rebecca Phillips and Christy Kranich

Chapter 10: Better Together: A Framework for Effective Collaboration between Community Schools and Child Welfare Systems
Amanda Klein-Cox and Mariel Pfister

Chapter 11: Using Cross-System Collaboration to Improve Educational Outcomes for Youth Involved with Child Welfare
Megan H. Piel, Airika Buford and Taylor Bazajou