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Title IV-E Child Welfare Training Program

The Title IV-E Child Welfare Training Program provides professional education and student support through its Title IV-E Stipend Program to graduate and undergraduate social work students preparing for the field of public child welfare. The program also supports the development of Curriculum Competencies for Public Child Welfare and Child Welfare Education Curriculum Resources.

The Title IV-E Child Welfare Program collaborates with the schools of social work on a number of projects to enhance the program. Currently these projects are the American Indian Recruitment Program, the Pathway Program (Distance Education), and the Field Instruction Initiative. The program also supports evaluation and research efforts to enhance the delivery of the competencies and the retention of public child welfare workers.

Competencies

To prepare their child welfare students for work in the field, the graduate schools of social work in collaboration with public child welfare agency representatives and other stakeholders created the CalSWEC Curriculum Competencies for Public Child Welfare. These competencies, revised every five years to reflect current practice, serve as a model for collaborative curriculum development across the nation.

Curriculum Resources

To meet changes in curriculum and educational requirements, the Title IV-E Stipend Program strives both to gather and to support the creation of curriculum resources. A need for materials on specific topics may be identified by several constituencies: university staff and faculty, social work students and graduates, county child welfare partners, and the CalSWEC Board of Directors.

In addition, CalSWEC provides curriculum resources in response to developments in legislation and child welfare practice. Resources extend over several media types, including sound and video recordings.

These resources are organized by topic and are available on the Child Welfare Education Curriculum Resources page and at the California Child Welfare Resource Library at CSU, Long Beach.

For more information:

  • Contact:  Chris Mathias, Director, Title IV-E Child Welfare Training Program

Title IV-E Stipend Program

The Title IV-E Stipend Program is the nation's largest consortium of schools and social work and public service agencies providing support for the delivery of a specialized public child welfare curriculum and support for students committed to service in in public child welfare. Through the master contract it holds with the California Department of Social Services, CalSWEC provides program structure, guidance, support, and fiscal oversight to subcontracting schools of social work. It works closely with the schools' Deans and Directors and the Project Coordinators at each site.

American Indian Recruitment (AIR) Program

The American Indian Recruitment (AIR) Program supports the Title IV-E schools of social work in CalSWEC's consortium. Its goal is to increase the number of Native American social workers throughout the state and fill a critical gap in the social work workforce. Eligible American Indian students can receive financial support as full- or part-time social work students with an emphasis on children and families in the Title IV-E Stipend Program.

Pathway Program (Distance Education)

The Pathway Program, offered through the Title IV-E Stipend Program, is a part-time-only distributed learning program that provides support for students from the BASW to the MSW levels who live in rural and remote regions of California and who are employees of county agencies.

Field Instruction Initiative

CalSWEC created the Field Instruction Initiative (FII) to support the development of high-quality field instruction and supervision for social work students in the Title IV-E Child Welfare Training Program.