The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act (AACWA) of 1980 (Pub. L. 96-272) was enacted after it was discovered that too many children were being placed in foster care too quickly and for too long during the 1970’s. The AACWA was to promote keeping the families together and placing the children in permanent placement rather than placing them in foster care. Title IV-E was created as part of the AACWA and provides federal funding for educating and training the child welfare workforce in belief that well trained child welfare workers will bring about better quality service to children.
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Title IV-E program at the School of Social Work at the UT Austin is currently in its third year of operation, and this is the first attempt at evaluating the program. The coordinator of the program, Sonja Berry, has decided to implement an opinion survey to the program recipients and their supervisors to assess whether the program has accomplished its stated goals. The first goal of Title IV-E program is to increase the stipend students’ awareness of foster care maintenance and their adoption assistance issues in BSW and MSSW at the School of Social Work. The second goal is to enhance their capacity to work more effectively with CPS. The third goal is to equip the stipend students with knowledge, skills, and professional competency for leadership in all aspects of public child welfare …show more content…
And through Title IV-E as well as Title IV-B, federal funding has been used for staff training in public child welfare services. The purpose of Title IV-E, “Federal Payments for Foster Care and Adoption Assistance,” is to enable each state to provide foster care, transitional independent living programs, and adoption assistance for children with special needs (Social Security Act, 1980). Through Title IV-E, the federal government provides grants to schools of social work in order to offer professional training in public child welfare. It is the assumption of Title IV-E that social workers are able to provide more effective child welfare services than the staff without professional social work training (Clark & Grossman, 1992). Similarly, according to Terpestra (1992), in order for public child welfare agencies to accomplish their mission they must have quality, well-educated, trained staffs. Through federal effort, there are many partnerships between schools of social work and public child welfare agencies across the country (Hopkins, Mudrick, & Rudolph, 1999). It is necessary to determine if federal funding has been used effectively for preparing professionally educated social workers in public child welfare. The scarcity of resources is the fundamental reason for implementing the program evaluation, so that the resources might be distributed effectively and reasonably (Rossi, Freeman, Mark
Universities and state agencies started collaborating and developing training partnership programs to train social work students to produce well prepared …show more content…
Title IV-E program at the School of Social Work at the UT Austin is currently in its third year of operation, and this is the first attempt at evaluating the program. The coordinator of the program, Sonja Berry, has decided to implement an opinion survey to the program recipients and their supervisors to assess whether the program has accomplished its stated goals. The first goal of Title IV-E program is to increase the stipend students’ awareness of foster care maintenance and their adoption assistance issues in BSW and MSSW at the School of Social Work. The second goal is to enhance their capacity to work more effectively with CPS. The third goal is to equip the stipend students with knowledge, skills, and professional competency for leadership in all aspects of public child welfare …show more content…
And through Title IV-E as well as Title IV-B, federal funding has been used for staff training in public child welfare services. The purpose of Title IV-E, “Federal Payments for Foster Care and Adoption Assistance,” is to enable each state to provide foster care, transitional independent living programs, and adoption assistance for children with special needs (Social Security Act, 1980). Through Title IV-E, the federal government provides grants to schools of social work in order to offer professional training in public child welfare. It is the assumption of Title IV-E that social workers are able to provide more effective child welfare services than the staff without professional social work training (Clark & Grossman, 1992). Similarly, according to Terpestra (1992), in order for public child welfare agencies to accomplish their mission they must have quality, well-educated, trained staffs. Through federal effort, there are many partnerships between schools of social work and public child welfare agencies across the country (Hopkins, Mudrick, & Rudolph, 1999). It is necessary to determine if federal funding has been used effectively for preparing professionally educated social workers in public child welfare. The scarcity of resources is the fundamental reason for implementing the program evaluation, so that the resources might be distributed effectively and reasonably (Rossi, Freeman, Mark