Research & Development Committee-Sponsored Projects
Title	Teaching About Poverty, Welfare, Child Abuse, and Foster Care
Principal Investigator(s):	Richard P. Barth
School:	UC Berkeley
Project Goal:	To provide a method for linking data sets in order to analyze the relationship between poverty, child abuse, and foster care placement at the county level.
Project Duration:	2 years
Project Status:	Completed
Project Outcomes:	Curriculum: "Child Welfare in a CalWORKS Environment." Authors: Laura Frame, MSW, Jill Duerr Berrick, PhD, Sophia Lee, BA, Barbara Needell, PhD, Stephanie Cuccaro-Alamin, MSW, Richard P. Barth, PhD, Alan Brookhart, and Marta Pernas, BA.