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List of contents
Introduction: Title IV-E education: past, present and future of public child welfare 1.What’s in an MSW? Graduate education for public child welfare workers, intention, engagement, and work environment 2. "I was prepared for the worst I guess": stayers’ and leavers’ perceptions of their Title IV-E education 3. Preparing Child Welfare Practitioners: Implications for Title IV-E Education and Training Partnerships 4.The role of Title IV-E education and training in child protection workforce diversification 5.IV-E or not IV-E, that is the question: comparisons of BSW Child Welfare Scholars and matched trainee confidence and retention 6. Factors affecting turnover rates of public child welfare front line workers: comparing cohorts of title IV-E program graduates with regularly hired and trained staff, 7. Views on workplace culture and climate: through the lens of retention and Title IV-E participation 8. An effective pedagogy for child welfare education 9.The future of online social work education and Title IV-E child welfare stipends
About the author
Patrick Leung, PhD, is Gerson & Sabina David Endowed Professor for Global Aging and Director of the Office for International Social Work Education at the Graduate College of Social Work, University of Houston, USA. Dr. Leung is Principal Investigator and Evaluator of numerous research projects in child welfare and family services.
Monit Cheung, PhD, LCSW, is Mary R. Lewis Endowed Professor in Children & Youth at the Graduate College of Social Work, University of Houston, USA. She is Director of the Child & Family Center for Innovative Research and Principal Investigator of the Title IV-E Child Welfare Education Project in Houston, Texas.
Summary
BSW/MSW education funded by Title IV-E of Social Security Act ("Title IV-E Child Welfare Education") is an important incentive to encourage social workers to stay in the child protection field. This book describes this partnership between universities and public child welfare agencies.
