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Author : Aron Shlonsky
Release : 2013
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 725/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis From Evidence to Outcomes in Child Welfare by : Aron Shlonsky
Download or read book From Evidence to Outcomes in Child Welfare written by Aron Shlonsky. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited work offers a framework that organizes and develops the types of evidence needed at key decision points in child welfare.
Author : Anthony N. Maluccio
Release : 2011
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 199/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Improving Outcomes for Children and Families by : Anthony N. Maluccio
Download or read book Improving Outcomes for Children and Families written by Anthony N. Maluccio. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection offers an international perspective on the challenges of designing and undertaking outcome-based evaluation of child and family services. It introduces the key ideas and issues currently being debated in the evaluation of these services and provides examples of evaluation from policy and practice.
Author : Michael J. Austin
Release : 2013-09-13
Genre : Medical
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Book Rating : 306/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Evidence for Child Welfare Practice by : Michael J. Austin
Download or read book Evidence for Child Welfare Practice written by Michael J. Austin. This book was released on 2013-09-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a "work-in-progress" that seeks to capture the micro (direct service) and macro (managerial) perspectives related to identifying evidence for practice within the practice domain of public child welfare. It is divided into two categories; namely, evidence for direct practice and evidence for management practice. In Part I, the articles are categorized in the areas of child welfare assessment and child welfare outcomes. Expanded versions of the chapters can be accessed at www.bassc.net. In Part II, the focus is on organizational issues that relate to evidence for management practice. This section includes an overview of evidence-based practice from an organizational perspective along with evidence related to the experiences of others in implementing evidence-based practice. This book pushes the discussion of evidence-based practice in several new directions regarding: 1) the use of structured reviews to complement the systematic reviews of the Cochrane and Campbell Collaboratives, 2) the process of viewing the call for evidence-based practice as a goal or future vision of practice and evidence for practice provides a more immediate approach to promote evidence-informed practice, and 3) a recognition that evidence-informed practice is part of building agency-based knowledge sharing systems that involve the tacit and explicit knowledge needed to improve the outcomes of social services. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal Of Evidence-Based Social Work.
Author : Anita Lightburn
Release : 2011-03-15
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 481/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Improving Outcomes for Children and Families by : Anita Lightburn
Download or read book Improving Outcomes for Children and Families written by Anita Lightburn. This book was released on 2011-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Significant amounts of money and resources are spent on child and family services, so successful evaluation of whether or not they are achieving the best outcomes is therefore essential. This edited collection offers an international perspective on the challenges of designing and undertaking outcome-based evaluation of child and family services. With contributions from leading international experts, it introduces the key ideas and issues currently being debated in the evaluation of these services; discusses relevant approaches to designing and using evaluation methods; and provides examples of evaluation from the real world of policy and practice. Issues covered include setting appropriate indicators for service effectiveness, cross-cultural evaluation of service interventions, service user involvement in evaluation, and evaluations of family and community-based services. This invaluable book will be essential reading for policy makers, planners, commissioners and managers across child and family welfare services, as well as researchers and other academics in the field.
Author : Fred Wulczyn
Release : 2017-07-28
Genre : Psychology
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Book Rating : 984/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Beyond Common Sense by : Fred Wulczyn
Download or read book Beyond Common Sense written by Fred Wulczyn. This book was released on 2017-07-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helping vulnerable children develop their full potential is an attractive idea with broad common-sense appeal. However, child well-being is a broad concept, and the legislative mandate for addressing well-being in the context of the current child welfare system is not particularly clear. This volume asserts that finding a place for well-being on the list of outcomes established to manage the child welfare system is not as easy as it first appears. The overall thrust of this argument is that policy should be evidence-based, and the available evidence is a primary focus of the book. Because policymakers have to make decisions that allocate resources, a basic understanding of incidence in the public health tradition is important, as is evidence that speaks to the question of what works clinically. The rest of the book addresses the evidence. Chapter 2 integrates bio-ecological and public health perspectives to give the evidence base coherence. Chapters 3 and 4 combine evidence from the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System, the Multistate Foster Care Data Archive, and the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being to offer an unprecedented profile of children as they enter the child welfare system. Chapters 5 and 6 address the broad question of what works. A concluding chapter focuses on policy and future directions, suggesting that children starting out, children starting school, and children starting adolescence are high-risk populations for which explicit strategies have to be formed. This timely volume offers useful insights into the child welfare system and will be of particular interest to policymakers, academics with an interest in Child Welfare Policy, Social Work educators, and Child Advocates.
