CalSWEC celebrates its 10-year anniversary.
CalSWEC sponsors the Third Annual Human Services Training Evaluation Symposium. Dr. Bart Grossman is asked to continue the strategic planning efforts that were begun by the board in 1999. He engages key informants in identifying the next steps in CalSWEC’s development as it relates to the clarification of CalSWEC’s new mission, new targets and funding sources, and alternative governance auspice and structure. CSU, Chico becomes the 15th school to join the CalSWEC consortium. Dr. Sherrill Clark is selected as a member of the Stakeholders Group, convened by Governor Gray Davis to reform child welfare services in California.
Chris Mathias, MSW, succeeds Dr. Sherrill Clark as CalSWEC’s director.
Director Mathias is selected as a member of the Stakeholders Group. Dr. Bart Grossman completes the Strategic Planning Report and submits it to the board for review. CalSWEC sponsors the Fourth Annual Human Services Training Evaluation Symposium.
CalSWEC’s Board begins to explore other organizational models that are discussed in Dr. Grossman’s final Strategic Planning Report.
Elizabeth Gilman, CalSWEC’s new curriculum specialist, begins to conduct focus groups to inform the development of a BSW Title IV-E Stipend Program. CalSWEC sponsors the Fifth Annual Human Services Training Evaluation Symposium. CSU, Hayward (renamed CSU, East Bay in 2005) becomes the 16th school to join the CalSWEC consortium.
CSU Chico, Fresno, and Long Beach become the first schools to begin the new BSW Title IV-E Stipend Program.
CalSWEC’s Board agrees to formalize the match contribution of the public universities in the consortium. The board passes a motion that all public schools would contribute to the match pool at the same rate. Dr. Sherrill Clark and Dr. Susan Jacquet publish the monograph Demographic Profile of the CalSWEC Title IV-E MSW Students 1993–2002. CalSWEC convenes a Master Plan committee in response to Assembly Concurrent Resolution 215 (Aroner) to develop a Master Plan for Social Work Education in the State of California. CalSWEC’s Regional Training Academy staff administer a survey of Supervisory Practices and Roles to 14 counties; 1,000 completed surveys are received from line workers, supervisors and managers. In collaboration with the California Department of Social Services, CalSWEC convenes the Statewide Training and Education Committee (STEC) to address statewide issues in training for county child welfare workers. CalSWEC sponsors the Sixth Annual Human Services Training Evaluation Symposium. CalSWEC sponsors the First Training Symposium on Fairness and Equity Issues in Child Welfare.
CSU, Humboldt becomes the 17th school to join the CalSWEC consortium.
The Master Plan Committee submits the “Master Plan for Social Work Education in California” to Assembly member Lois Wolk in September. CalSWEC convenes two new subcommittees of the Curriculum Committee to focus on the development of Mental Health Competencies and Aging Competencies. CalSWEC sponsors the Seventh Annual Human Services Training Evaluation Symposium. CalSWEC sponsors the Second Training Symposium on Fairness and Equity Issues in Child Welfare. CalSWEC sponsors its First Leadership Symposium on Fairness and Equity Issues in Child Welfare. Participants are county child welfare managers and directors. CalSWEC’s Board accepts the newly developed Mental Health competencies.
Dr. Sherrill Clark completes the survey all county welfare departments and workers on the state of the workforce begun in 2004. The 2004 California Public Child Welfare Workforce Study is published in April.
CalSWEC’s Curriculum Committee expands the competency framework to include BSW, In-service training, Mental Health, and Aging. CalSWEC sponsors the Eighth Annual Human Services Training Evaluation Symposium. CalSWEC sponsors the Third Training Symposium on Fairness and Equity Issues in child welfare. CalSWEC sponsors its Second Leadership Symposium on Fairness and Equity Issues in Child Welfare. Participants are county child welfare managers and directors. CalSWEC’s Board accepts the newly developed Aging Competencies. CalSWEC’s Board reviews a new governance structure that would integrate the new initiatives in Mental Health and Aging that CalSWEC has supported since 2004. CalSWEC is awarded a contract with the California Department of Mental Health to deliver a stipend program to social work students who specialize in mental health service, patterned after the Title IV-E stipend program in child welfare. |
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