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Roundtable 11
Summary of 11th Annual Title IV-E
Child Welfare Roundtable
May 31-June 1, 2007
The 11th annual Title IV-E Child Welfare Roundtable was held May 31-June 1 at the T Bar M Ranch in
Participants from every state in Federal Region VI (
Next year’s Roundtable will be held May 29-30, 2008 at the T Bar M Ranch in
At the end of this summary co-chairs for next year’s focus groups are listed. If you would like to join one of the groups or if the information is incorrect, please email Elena Gibson at mg42@txstate.edu. Next year, there will be a new focus group on partnership administrative issues. The group will be co-chaired by Marcia Sanderson and Cyndi Reed. We want each of the focus groups to meet in the afternoon of Oct. 19 in
There are two attachments to this summary. Attachment 1 is the powerpoint from Joyce James’ presentation. Attachment 2 is th APS Facility, APS In-Home and CPS Pre-Employment Test Evaluation.
Summary of All Focus Groups
Employment & Retention Focus Group
Brian Brumley, Co-chair, 2006-2007
New, Needed, Next-
Pat Nayle, agency co-chair has retired. Agency is looking for new co-chair. Committee worked to get questions about ABLE to agency and they presented session yesterday. Those who receive Recommended or Highly Recommended can move into interview. Not recommended can retake in 6 months. Research point out some questions- minority populations not scoring as highly as white. Link regarding current analysis will be sent to Round Table list (Dorothy Gipson).
Look into cultural bias PAN makes point that this instrument was not developed to screen students. This issue will be discussed at fall Round Table. Plan to come with positive social work questions and not just complaints. Also look at viability on the whole.
o Agency has great opportunity to evaluate students through BSD field- much better than exam- so should use that data and not cram.
o Dorothy Gipson is going to carry concerns back to agency
o Nancy and Maria will come up with a set of questions to go to Dorothy for a report from general agency data base on Title IV-E recipients.
o Discuss how can we improve process of H.R. and hiring
o New automated system doesn’t lend itself to smooth process and identifying IV-E students
Next steps:
Discuss at fall Roundtable. Dorothy Gibson will provide state-office stats on outcomes of ABLE.
Fall Update planned for Friday, Oct. 19 at 10-12 at the
Curriculum Focus Group:
Mary Mulvaney and Annette Hodges-Brothers, Co-chairs 2006-2007
o Improve critical thinking and assessment in curriculum.
o Create tools for:
o classroom instruction
o assessment
o development of resources
Projects:
1. Collect case scenarios experiential activities
2. Collect and review syllabi (critical thinking and assessment)
Next Steps:
- Continue focus group—it is beneficial to agency, university, and students
- Complete 2 projects
- Monit Cheung will chair 2007-2008 year
- Annette Hodges-Brothers will continue as co-chair
Evaluation Focus Group
Patrick Leung and Donald Baumann, Co-chairs 2006-2007
Current Research Report distributed during meeting
Next Steps
1. Student intern in Joyce James’ office
2. How to disseminate information to practitioners
3. What makes IV-E work
4. How do we collaborate with other states to replicate evaluation OK, KY, LA
5. Track students retention- recommend to retention committee
6. Cost-benefit analysis
7. Explain hypothesis that wasn’t significant
8. Differences between BSW’s and MSW’s
9. Include evaluation in state plan
10. Finish study and publish results (by end of year) add qualitative data.
11. Continue Focus Group
12. Patrick & Donn will serve as Co-chairs
Field Focus Group
Carol Gardner, Acting Co-chair for 2007 RT
What’s new?
o Focused on improving interview and hiring process
o Some (region 7) are doing only 1 interview- others interested
o Some students being screened out:
§ Criminal hx’s
§ Driving records
o Licensure: Would like to see pay differential for MSW and licensure
What’s needed?
o Mentors- former IV-E student
o Screening tools: don’t want to screen based on ABLE, but good fit
o Workshops: contract writing and partnerships
o Mentors for university with new contracts
What’s next?
o Chris Johnson: co-chair
o Co-Chairs: New academy managers: Region 7
o Share on list serve
o Continue focus group
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Roundtable Focus Group Chairs
2007- 2008
| CURRICULM | Monit Cheung | Co-Chair | |
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| AnnetteHodges-Brothers | Co-Chair |
| EMPLOYMENT AND RETENTION | Brian Brumley | Co-Chair | |
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| Monica Knighton | Co-Chair |
| EVALUATION | Patrick Leung | Co-chair | |
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| Donald Baumann | Co-Chair |
| FIELD | Chris Johnson | Co-Chair | |
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| TBN | Co-Chair |
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| Partnership & Administrative Issues | Cindy Reed | Co-Chair | |
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| Marcia Sanderson | Co-Chair |