Commitment to child welfare work: What predicts leaving and staying?

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 840-846

  Faller, Kathleen Coulborn ^a   Grabarek, Marguerite ^a   Ortega, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Child welfare workforce; Turnover

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950628412     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2010.02.003     Document Type: Article

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