title: Improving the quality of child welfare services: needs assessment for staff training.
abstract: Competency-based needs assessment surveys can be useful in assessing worker training needs in child welfare. Worker and supervisor surveys, consisting largely of task-based ability statements, constitute the core of this approach. Additional information can also be obtained from supervisors and allied professionals. Data from a study of 276 frontline child welfare workers in Alaska and Oregon are used to illustrate the utility of this approach.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Social Work, University of Utah.
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Pecora
mesh_terms: D000413:Alaska; D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare / Q000592:standards*; D003479:Curriculum; D006801:Humans; D009922:Oregon; D012947:Social Work / Q000193:education*