An Outcome Evaluation of Competency Based Training for Child Welfare

An Outcome Evaluation of Competency Based Training for Child Welfare

In response to the continuing need for competent child welfare professionals, a largemid-western university’s College of SocialWork collaborated with a public childwelfare agency to design and implement a one year,Title IV-E-funded training opportunity for second-yearMSWstudents. Student outcomes, including knowledge acquisition, attitudes about child welfare, and field of post-graduation emplo...

A competency-based parent training program for child abusers.

An Evaluation of Family to Family as a Model of Outcome–based Child Welfare Services for Sonoma County

In 1997, the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA), passed by the federal government, included a requirement that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services develop outcome measures for child welfare agencies. There had been ongoing concerns about the state of the foster care system, which seemed to continue to grow each decade with disproportionate levels of racial and ethnic minorities ...

Competency-based Training

ACGME Competency Project Training Modules: The University of Rochester designed six practical modules for residencies and fellowships based on competency objectives which are available in downloadable format. Topics such as Pain Management, Communicating Bad News, Informed Consent and Capacity are included. Each module provides objectives, formats, readings, slides, test questions and evaluatio...

An evaluation of a child welfare training program on the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC).

With the growing awareness of the nature and scope of the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) in the United States, a few state child welfare agencies have started to develop and implement training on CSEC for their social service staff. Since other state child welfare agencies may adopt a similar training model, it is important to evaluate the effectiveness of these CSEC training...