Special Issue: Promoting a Healthy & Resilient Child Abuse & Neglect Workforce

 Acknowledge diverse range of professionals working in the CAN workforce  Acknowledge experiences of racism for First Nation child protection workers, other indigenous groups  Organizations can support individuals to promote resilience using evidence informed models such as the Organisational Resiliency Model (Kalergis & Anderson)  Very few workplace interventions exist for child welfare, none with rigorous evaluation studies (Molnar et al)  Lonne et al. and Russ et al. papers argue for structural change and system reforms; promote a public health approach to child protection to maintain a skilled and resilient workforce  Further research is needed to inform training, develop tools for measuring outcomes, rigorously evaluate efforts to increase/maintain strength in the workforce, collect better epidemiological data on scope