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Planning and Evaluating Child Welfare Training Projects: Working toward a Comprehensive Conceptual Model
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Collins, Mary Elizabeth; Amodeo, Maryann; Clay, Cassandra – Child Welfare, 2008
Training is widely believed to be an important element in promoting good child welfare practice. Scholarly attention to training, however, has been limited. To facilitate further development of child welfare training, in this article, we discuss the importance of conceptualization in the design and evaluation of training projects, offer a…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Program Development, Program Evaluation, Models
Toward Building a Typology for the Evaluation of Services in Family Support Programs.
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Manalo, Victor; Meezan, William – Child Welfare, 2000
Articulates how the family support movement emerged in the last 20 years, and describes the philosophical premises, principles, and practices that currently guide it. Considers the inability of current family support program typologies to guide outcome evaluations, and introduces a typology that deconstructs family support programs into their…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Family Programs, Models, Program Development
Prevention in Child Welfare: A Framework for Management and Practice.
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Sundel, Martin; Homan, Carolyn Clark – Child Welfare, 1979
Examines the concept and application of prevention programs in the child welfare services, and provides a framework for child welfare services based on the public health model of prevention, which focuses on helping program administrators identify and plan services and programs for target populations at different stages in their development. (CM)
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Delivery Systems, Intervention, Models
Family-Centered Group Care.
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Finkelstein, Nadia Ehrlich – Child Welfare, 1980
Suggests a framework for a family-centered residential group care model for children in acute crisis. The model aims at achieving a permanent discharge for the children as soon as possible. (CM)
Descriptors: Crisis Intervention, Family Relationship, Group Dynamics, Models
A Grass-Roots Model for Needs Assessment in Hispanic Communities.
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Delgado, Melvin – Child Welfare, 1979
Describes a needs assessment model which can be used by grass-roots organizations to collect socioeconomic and demographic data in Hispanic and other ethnic-minority communities. (CM)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Minority Groups, Models, Needs Assessment
An Agency Design for Permanency Planning in Foster Care.
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Sisto, Grace W. – Child Welfare, 1980
Suggests a decision-making model based on case-management procedures for permanency planning in foster care. Permanency planning is offered as an alternative to counter the drift of children in foster care. (CM)
Descriptors: Agency Role, Caseworker Approach, Change Strategies, Decision Making
Combining Child Welfare and Substance Abuse Services: A Blended Model of Intervention.
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McAlpine, Catherine; Marshall, Cynthia Courts; Doran, Nancy Harper – Child Welfare, 2001
Several policy and practice issues impede successful implementation of the federal Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997. Montgomery County, Maryland devised a blended model of intervention to achieve the dual mandates of county Child Welfare Services and alcohol and drug services. The approach made use of graduated levels of intensity in…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Child Custody, Child Welfare, County Programs