Evaluation Research in Child Welfare

Evaluation Research in Child Welfare: Improving Outcomes Through University-Public Agency Partnerships is a critical examination of the diverse outcomes—and strategies for assessing them—of university/public child welfare agency partnerships designed to prepare social work students for public practice. In this informative book, you'll find an overview of efforts to promote professional social work practice in child welfare. You'll also find examples of effective partnerships between state and local social work programs and agencies that helped them make effective use of federal funding for staff education. Special attention is paid to programs addressing diversity and cultural competence.

Katharine Briar-Lawson, Joan Levy Zlotnik

- EDITORIAL - Preparing Social Workers for Child Welfare Practice: Lessons from an Historical Review of the Literature - Transfer of Training: An Evaluation Study - A Follow-Up of Title IV-E Program's Graduates' Retention Rates in a Child Welfare Agency - Career Paths and Contributions of Four Cohorts of IV-E Funded MSW Child Welfare Graduates - Child Welfare Knowledge Transmission, Practitioner Retention, and University-Community Impact: A Study of Title IV-E Child Welfare Training - Factors Influencing the Retention of Specially Educated Public Child Welfare Workers - Tracking Process and Outcome Results of BSW Students' Preparation for Public Child Welfare Practice: Lessons Learned - Reducing Conflict Between Child Welfare Communities - An Evaluation of Child Welfare Design Teams in Four States - Examination of Racial Imbalance for Children in Foster Care: Implications for Training - Facing the Challenge of a Changing System: Training Child Welfare Workers in a Privatized Environment - Evaluating Federally-Funded Child Welfare Training Partnerships: A Worthwhile Challenge - Index - Reference Notes Included