CalSWEC News, October-December 2006


	*News*
		October- December 2006
A quarterly newsletter produced for the constituents of the California Social Work Education Center, the nation's largest state coalition of social work educators and practitioners.

This inaugural issue of CalSWEC News highlights the efforts of CalSWEC to track how graduates fare in the public child welfare workforce as well as its activities in research to curriculum and training evaluation.
New Graduate Survey CalSWEC uses its survey of MSW Title IV-E graduates who recently have begun work in public child welfare to obtain valuable feedback in its curriculum evaluation and development process. Read highlights of 2005-2006 here. Retention Study The overall retention rate of professionally trained public child welfare workers who have participated in CalSWEC's Title IV-E Retention Study has remained high over the course of the study's 10 years, at more than 82%. Read highlights of the study here. View the status of the MSW/BSW grads from 1993 to June 2006 here. Workforce Study The statewide turnover rate for county child welfare workers and supervisors seems to be slowing down in California. Read The 2004 California Public Child Welfare Study (April 2005). Training Evaluation Framework Report This report provides an outline and description of training evaluation efforts currently in progress throughout the state for new child welfare workers. Read the report here. New Curriculum Products Common Core Curricula for Supervisors: The six areas of standardized content for supervisor core training in California, implemented in FY 2005-2006. Improving Educational Services for Foster Youth Living in Group Homes: An Analysis of Interagency Collaboration (Berrick, Jill Duerr, & Ayasse, Robert H.) Child Abuse: Characteristics and Patterns Among Cambodian, Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese American Families (Rhee, S., & Chang, J.) The Retention of Public Child Welfare Workers (Weaver, D., Chang, J., & Gil de Gibaja, M.) Pathways to Collaboration: Understanding the Role of Values and System-Related Factors in Collaboration Between Child Welfare and Substance Abuse Treatment Fields (Drabble, L., Tweed, M., Osterling, K.L., with Navarrette, L., Pearce, C., Ribeiro, P., & Twomey, E.) Feedback: Director Chris Mathias, cmathias@berkeley.edu Websites California Social Work Education Center (CalSWEC) California Child Welfare Resource Library School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley For a list of publications by CalSWEC staff, click here. Previous issues Copyright 2006 by the Regents of the University of California