Child welfare knowledge transmission, practitioner retention, and university-community impact: a study of Title IV-E child welfare training.
This paper describes the implementation of a Title IV-E child welfare training program in Louisiana. A collaborative arrangement between the state child welfare agency and seven state university social work programs provides for student monetary stipends in return for child welfare training and work as public child welfare employees upon graduation. On a test of child welfare knowledge, students in MSW and BSW programs scored higher following child welfare training; BSW student stipend recipients made greater gains than non-recipients when controlling for initial scores. MSW students' results appear to approach significance; they may not be significant due to low power of the statistical analysis. Child welfare agency retention of the stipend student graduates is considered good by the agency.
Gansle
Kristin A
KA
School of Social Work, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 70803, USA. kgansle@lsu.edu
Ellett
Alberta J
AJ
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