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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…

Nearing the Finish Line

We are excited to announce additional leadership hires for DCYF. As we get closer to our July 1 merger, we are pleased to be able to round out our leadership team with dedicated and experienced professionals, each of whom will contribute meaningfully to our vision to ensure that…

Turning a Mandate Into a Movement:

Taking an uncommon approach to performance-based contracting

The Department of Children, Youth, and Families is proud to partner with hundreds of contracted service providers around the state to provide vital services to children and their…

Check Out this Video — OIAA Update

Wondering what the Office of Innovation, Alignment and Accountability is up to? Here’s a quick…

DCYF Organizational Function Model

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

Ross on the Road — Reporting Out

When Ross Hunter was appointed last year as secretary of the new Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF), he made a commitment to visit every office to learn from employees who would eventually work for DCYF. He also committed to visit with community members…

Foster Care Placements — What I’ve Learned So Far

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…