Developing an Organizational Structure for DCYF

DCYF Organizational Function Model

As promised, we are presenting our next level of organizational structure for the new Department of…

Two Months In — What We’ve Been Up to So Far

The monumental task of creating a new agency is well underway, and I am eager to…

Foster Care Placements — What I’ve Learned So Far

Mission — Build a New, Integrated DCYF

Building a new agency — especially one as large and important as the Department of Children, Youth, and Families — is no easy task. Merging Children’s Administration, the Department of Early Learning and eventually the Juvenile Rehabilitation program, requires a…

Using Data to Improve Outcomes for Washington’s Children, Youth, and Families

Welcome to a new DCYF blog series from the Office of Innovation, Alignment and Accountability (OIAA). Though our team is still fairly new (staff came aboard in January) we’ve been hard at work…

Thinking About Racial Equity at DCYF

In doing big projects like the DCYF creation there are tasks that have crazy deadlines (getting a payment system in place, payroll, filing new rules on time, etc.) and tasks that are often more important, but don’t have the same emergent time deadlines. It’s easy…