Universities

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Elder respect among American college students: exploration of behavioral forms.

This study explored the ways in which college students conveyed elder respect. Based on data from a questionnaire survey of 521 subjects, 12 forms of elder respect, ranging from care respect to celebratory respect, were measured. Of these forms, ...
Kyu-Taik Sung (Int J Aging Hum Dev, 2002)
elder-respect-american-college-students-exploration-behavioral-forms.asp

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Preparing social workers for child welfare practice: lessons from an historical review of the literature.

Spurred on by national and local forces, there are currently an array of strategies underway between social work education programs and public child welfare agencies to educate current and future workers, improve agency working conditions and to develop ...
Joan Levy Zlotnik (J Health Soc Policy, 2002)
preparing-social-workers-child-welfare-practice-lessons-historical.asp

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A follow-up of a Title IV-E programs graduates retention rates in a public child welfare agency.

OBJECTIVE: Examine retention rates of a Title IV-E programs graduates in a public child welfare agency. METHOD: The sample consisted of all workers (N = 266) hired between June 1994 and June 1997. Subjects were followed until 12/31/99 in order to ...
Loring Jones (J Health Soc Policy, 2002)
follow-up-title-iv-e-program-s-graduates-retention-rates-public-child.asp

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Child welfare knowledge transmission, practitioner retention, and university-community impact: a study of Title IV-E child welfare training.

This paper describes the implementation of a Title IV-E child welfare training program in Louisiana. A collaborative arrangement between the state child welfare agency and seven state university social work programs provides for student monetary stipends ...
Kristin A Gansle, Alberta J Ellett (J Health Soc Policy, 2002)
child-welfare-knowledge-transmission-practitioner-retention.asp

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Tracking process and outcome results of BSW students preparation for public child welfare practice: lessons learned.

A Texas university/agency partnership program to prepare social work students for public child welfare conducted an exploratory study of the process and outcome results of the programs efforts from 1989-99 and offers recommendations to other ...
J Karen Brown, Nancy Feyl Chavkin, Vevelyn Peterson (J Health Soc Policy, 2002)
tracking-process-outcome-results-bsw-students-preparation-public.asp

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Reducing conflict between child welfare communities.

Conflict is inherent in child welfare practice. This article describes a collaborative project between a public child welfare agency and a school of social work (the UFOCWL) to strengthen and improve the connections between the agency and the larger ...
Sandra Kopels, Jan Carter-Black, John Poertner (J Health Soc Policy, 2002)
reducing-conflict-child-welfare-communities.asp

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Examination of racial imbalance for children in foster care: implications for training.

Concerned with the high number of African American children in out-of-home care in an East Texas county, the regional administrator of a state public child welfare agency asked its IV-E partnered university to examine the kinds of training the agency ...
Kathleen Belanger (J Health Soc Policy, 2002)
examination-racial-imbalance-children-foster-care-implications.asp

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Facing the challenge of a changing system: training child welfare workers in a privatized environment.

The state of Kansas implementation of a privatized child welfare system is arguably an ambitious shift in child welfare service delivery. In an attempt to drastically improve services to vulnerable families, privatization resulted in intended and ...
Debora M Ortega, Michelle M Levy (J Health Soc Policy, 2002)
facing-challenge-changing-system-training-child-welfare-workers.asp

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Evaluating federally-funded child welfare training partnerships: a worthwhile challenge.

This article assesses the state of evaluation research on federally-funded child welfare training, including both Section 426 and Title IV-E partnerships. The article discusses the need for stronger evaluations of child welfare training and describes ...
Brenda D Smith (J Health Soc Policy, 2002)
evaluating-federally-funded-child-welfare-training-partnerships.asp

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3.4 Securing the financial future of the university.

The purpose of this paper is to explore current challenges to the financial security of the worlds dental schools, analyse and compare current methods of funding dental education, identify best practices and formulate recommendations in order to assist ...
Richard N Buchanan, Jerold Goldberg, Hans Groeneveld, Lassi Alvesalo, Robert Anderton, Angie Angelopoulos, J R Bausch, Hans Haanaes, Gabor Nagy, William MacInnis, Pierluigi Sapelli, Upin Songpaisan (Eur J Dent Educ, 2002)
securing-financial-future-university.asp