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The Ruth H. Young Center for Families and Children is committed to providing educational and practice experiences, for social work, nursing, and law students. Goals: - To provide educational and practice experiences for social work, nursing, and law students.
- To maximize opportunities for teaching/training students and professionals in the disciplines involved in child maltreatment, as well as for those serving high-risk families.
- To provide training and technical assistance to faculty and doctoral students interested in conducting research in areas related to child maltreatment.
- To teach advanced research methods to Masters level social work students related to the prevention of child abuse and neglect.
- To provide technical assistance to community based organizations in the design of programs and evaluating outcomes of programs to increase safety, health, and well-being.
Education, Training, and Technical Assistance Activities: - Faculty field instructors provide field instruction for approximately 12 graduate social work students, who intern two-three days each week in the field and participate in weekly seminars.
- Faculty members teach graduate courses in the School of Social Work to advance clinical and research skills related to families with children, including two Research in Child Welfare courses, 1) geared to teach MSW students how to develop outcomes measurement systems for child welfare related interventions; and 2) developed to educate social work students through direct involvement in research (Following Family Connections).
- Social Work PhD graduate assistants are involved in hands-on research activities to learn and apply all stages of research including reviewing literature, collaborating with an inter-disciplinary research team, recruiting research participants, facilitating CASI research protocols and other data collection methods, managing and coding data files, conducting data analysis and participating in the development of reports, papers, and presentations.
- Through the Family Connections Program mentoring is being provided to eight sites nationally all of whom are part of a national replication project funded by the U.S. DHHS, Children’s Bureau.
- The Center co-sponsors state and national conferences and participates in planning these conferences. Center personnel participate in many invited and peer reviewed workshops for community groups, state, regional, national, and international conferences.
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July 11, 2005
Matt Conn
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