Georgia Child Welfare Employee Selection Protocol (ESP)

Child welfare applicants

The primary goal of the ESP is to better select child welfare employees that possess and demonstrate personal knowledge, skills, abilities, and values (KSAVs) considered as minimally essential at job entry, with the long-term goal of increasing retention rates for child welfare employees in Georgia. The complete ESP consists of a sequenced set of web- and site-based assessment processes and procedures for potential applicants. ESP is designed to help applicants and employers make informed decisions about the goodness of fit between the applicant and the demands of a career in child welfare.

Alberta J. Ellett

• Email: aellett@uga.edu

Publicly available information indicates there is some training available for this program. See contact info.

Manual Information

There is a manual that describes how to deliver this program.

Training Information

There is training available for this program.

• There are currently no published, peer-reviewed research studies on outcomes with the appropriate target population for the topic area(s) in which Georgia Child Welfare Employee Selection Protocol (ESP) has been reviewed.

• Ellett, A. J., Ellett, C. D., Ellis, J., & Lerner, B. (2009). A research-based child welfare employee selection protocol: Strengthening retention of the workforce. Child Welfare, 88(5), 49–68. https://www.jstor.org/stable/45400438

• Ellett, A. J., Ellett, C. D., Westbrook, T. M, & Lerner, B. (2006). Toward the development of a research-based employee selection protocol: Implications for child welfare supervision, administration, and professional development. Professional Development: The International Journal of Continuing Social Work Education, 9(2/3), 111-120.