Research & Development Committee-Sponsored Projects

The Research & Development Committee was established by the CalSWEC Board of Directors to encourage joint agency-school program development and evaluation activities to support CalSWEC's efforts to involve students and staff in improving the current child welfare system and social workers' sense of efficacy. The committee has also funded empirical-based curriculum development studies of interdisciplinary and interagency delivery systems based on the committee's research priorities.

All products may be obtained for cost from the CalSWEC library: Cheryl Fujii, Librarian California State University, Long Beach Department of Social Work California Child Welfare Resource Library 1250 Bellflower Blvd. Long Beach, CA 90840 Phone: 562-985-4570 Fax: 562-985-5630

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Project Title	Duration	Status
2008-2009 Funding Year
Community Representatives and Cultural Brokers in the Child Welfare System	2 Years	To be completed summer 2010
Worker Factors in the Overrepresentation of African Americans in the Child Welfare System	1 Year	To be completed summer 2009
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2007-2008 Funding Year
The Effects of Different Types and Patterns of Service on Successful Reunification	1 Year	To be completed summer 2008
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2006-2007 Funding Year
Mental Health Service Utilization for Transition Age Youth in the Child Welfare System: Tracking the Early Implementation of Proposition 63 in Santa Clara County	1 year	To be completed summer 2007
Evaluation of Contra Costa County's Differential Response System	2 years	To be completed summer 2008
An Assessment of Differential Response: Implications for Social Work Practice in Diverse Communities	2 years	To be completed summer 2008
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2005-2006 Funding Year
Mental Health Service Utilization and Outcomes for Children and Youth in the Child Welfare System	1 year	Completed
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2004-2005 Funding Year
PHASE 2: Pathways to Collaboration: Understanding the Role of Values and System-Related Factors that Contribute to the Adoption of Promising Practices between Child Welfare and Alcohol and Drug Systems	1 year	Completed
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2003-2004 Funding Year
Improving Educational Services for Foster Youth Living in Group Homes: An Analysis of Interagency Collaboration	1 year	Completed
Structured Decision Making (SDM) and Child Welfare Service Delivery Project	2 years	Completed
Factors Leading to Premature Terminations of Kinship Care Placements	2 years	Completed
Pathways to Collaboration: Understanding the Role of Values and System-Related Factors that Contribute to the Adoption of Promising Practices Between Child Welfare and Alcohol and Drug Systems	1 year	Completed
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2002-2003 Funding Year
No projects were funded.
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2001-2002 Funding Year
Asian American Children and Families in Foster Care Systems: Factors Leading to Different Types of Out-of-Home Placement, Adjustments of Children to Foster Care, and Experiences of Immigrant Asian Families in the US Public Child Welfare System	2 Years	Completed
The Retention of California's Public Child Welfare Workers	2 Years	Completed
Enhancing Positive Outcomes in Transracial Adoptive Families Following Implementation of the Multi-ethnic Placement Act and Inter-ethnic Adoption Provisions	2 Years	Completed
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2000-2001 Funding Year
Evaluating the Efficacy of Family Unity Meetings	2 Years	Completed
Formal Kinship Care versus Informal Care: Characteristics and Service Needs of Grandparent-Headed Households Implications for Collaboration and Risk Prevention	2 Years	Completed
Pathways to College: Understanding the Psychosocial and System-Related Factors that Contribute to College Enrollment and Attendance Among Emancipated Foster Youth	15 Months	Completed
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1999-2000 Funding Year
"From the Bottom Up": Impact of Public Child Welfare Training on Practice and Policy	2 Years	Completed
Substance Abuse Aides in the Child Welfare System: An Evaluation of an Intervention Program	2 Years	Completed
Utilizing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Technology to Analyze Patterns of Utilization, Stability and Effect of Exempt-Child Care Among CalWORKS Recipients in Fresno County	15 Months	Completed
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1998-1999 Funding Year
Understanding Families in CalWORKS and the Child Welfare System: Case Management for Public Child Welfare Workers	1 Year	Completed
Substance Abuse in a Public Assistance Population: Impact for Welfare Reform and Child Welfare	2 Years	Completed
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1997-1998 Funding Year
The Effects of Computerization on Public Child Welfare Practice	2 Years	Completed
The Effectiveness of Court Mandated Intervention versus Voluntary Services in Child Protective Services	15 Months	Completed
Children’s Experiences of Out-of-Home Care: Elements of a Successful Foster Care System	2 Years	Completed
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1996-1997 Funding Year
Teaching About Poverty, Welfare, Child Abuse, and Foster Care	2 Years	Completed
Assessing the Quality of Kin and Non-Kin Foster Care	2 Years	Completed
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1995-1996 Funding Year
Evaluating Community-Based Programs for Families At-Risk of Foster Care Placement: An Empirically-Based Curriculum	2 Years	Completed
Culturally Sensitive Risk Assessment: An Ethnographic Approach	2 Years	Completed
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1994-1995 Funding Year
Dissemination of Research Findings	2 Years	Completed
Emancipation Preparation in California Counties	2 Years	Completed
Kinship and Guardianship	2 Years	Completed

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