Symposia

This page contains documents and materials from sponsored symposia. The symposia materials are listed chronologically. You will find materials such as: symposia programs, program documents, symposia summaries, keynote presentations, resources, table talk discussions, and evaluation summaries of symposia participants. Please select the year that you are interested in. The materials for each year will appear as a sub-menu.

2010: California's Budget Crisis: Evidence of Impact
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• Program
  
• Keynote presentation
  
• Summary report of the symposium
  
• Regional contacts
  
• Resources
  
  • The 2010-11 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget
    
  • CWDA: Update #2 - Details of Governor's 2010-11 Proposed Budget
    
  • Budget Proposals Turn Back Clock 30 Years in Long-Term Care Services for California Seniors (UCLA Center for Health Policy Research)
    
  • Characteristics of Vulnerability - IHSS County Data Based on California's 2010 Budget Cut Proposal (UCLA Center for Health Policy Research)
    
  • Fact Sheet on Budget Item 4260: Elimination of Adult Day Health Care (ADHC) Facilities (California Association for Adult Day Services, January 26, 2010)
    
  • Don't Mess with Success: The unintended consequence of cutting community-based long-term care programs (RTZ Associates, Inc., June 5, 2009)
    
  • A View from the Trenches: How the Economic Recession is Affecting the Title IV-E Workforce in California
    
  • Governor's Budget Includes Deep Cuts, Assumes More Federal Funds (California Budget Project, Revised January 13, 2010)
    
  • Early-Childhood Poverty and Adult Attainment, Behavior, and Health (Child Development, January/February 2010, 8(1), 306-325)
    

2009: Moving Research and Evidence into Child Welfare
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• Program
  
• Keynote presentations
  • Bringing in Evidence-Based Practice: How Do We Make EBP TAU?
    
  • NSCAW I and II Updates and New Field Work for a Child Welfare Landmark Study
• Morning Breakout Sessions
  • CPS Recidivism Associated with a Home Visiting Program: A Quasi Experimental Analysis
    
  • Foster Care Reentry and Placement Stability Outcomes: Understanding California's Performance and Practices to Improve Outcomes
    
  • Solution-Based Casework Training: An Evidence-Supported Model for Child Welfare Practice
• Afternoon Breakout Sessions
  • CPS Recidivism Associated with a Home Visiting Program: A Quasi Experimental Analysis
    
  • Foster Care Reentry and Placement Stability Outcomes: Understanding California's Performance and Practices to Improve
    
  • How Does Cross-System Collaboration Between the Child Welfare and Mental Health Systems Influence Children? Mental Health Service Use and Service Effectiveness? Findings from a Two-Phase, Mixed Methods Study
• Table Talk summary
  
• Symposium summary
  

• 2008: Shaping the Next Generation of Evidence in Child Welfare
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  Program
  

  Keynote presentations

  • Moving Evidence-Based Models from Academic to Field Settings--An Admittedly Exaggerated Tale of Woe
    
  • Effective Practices in Academic-Agency Partnerships for CWS Research: Reflections of a Fortunate Researcher
    

  Table Talk summary
  

  Symposium summary
  

• 2007: Summer Research Sessions on Evidence-Based Practice
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  Program
  

  Workshop presentations
  

  • Promoting Evidence-Informed Practice: The BASSC Perspective
  • The School Enrollment Process for Group Home Youth: An Examination of Interagency Collaboration on Behalf of Youth Transitioning into New Group Homes
  • The New Data Frontier: The Administrative Use of Data to Promote an Agency Culture of Data Driven CWS Practice and Service Delivery--Central California Area Social Services Consortium (CCASSC) and the Fresno County Experience
  • Inter-Agency and University Research Collaboration: A Study of the Another Road to Safety Program
  • Infusion of Evidenced-Based Practice into Social Work Education
  • Mental Health Service Utilization and Outcomes for Children and Youth in the Child Welfare System
  • It Can Work! Lessons Learned from a Successful University-County Partnership to Study Contra Costa County's Differential Response System
  • Linking Evidence Based Resources to University Curriculum
  • Linking University Curriculum with Research
    
• 2006: A University/Agency Partnership for California
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  Program
  

  Overview of the California Clearinghouse
  

  Keynote presentations
  

  • Data Revolution: National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW)
  • Child Welfare Administration Data: The UCB Performance Indicators Project
  • CalSWEC Data Sets

  EBP Annotated bibliography
• 2005: Leadership Symposium on EBP
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  Program
  

  Bay Area Social Services Consortium (BASSC) Structured Reviews
  

  Lunchtime presentation

  • Article: Evidence-Based Practice in Social Services: Implications for Organizational Change
  • Discussion Questions