Supporting and Professionalizing Our Public Child Welfare Workforce
The Title IV-E Education Program is committed to continuously improving outcomes for social workers, children and families alike. Using rigorous, data-driven evaluation processes, we routinely assess the efficacy of our program offering and work to align those offerings with our primary goal of supporting and professionalizing California's public child welfare workforce. Title IV-E evaluation efforts are led by the CalEval team, housed at the Agile Visual Analytics Lab (AVAL) at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.
Title IV-E evaluation mechanisms are designed to monitor activities that comprise the program’s school period (i.e., recruitment/selection to IV-E, school-related curricular activities, and graduation from the program) and service requirement period (application to public child welfare positions, execution and completion of service requirement)
IV-E students are not required to remain in a public child welfare role beyond the two-year service requirement stipulated in their contracts. However, we also collaborate with our partners across the child welfare system, including qualifying county and Tribal agencies and training/professional development organizations, to better understand longer-term worker retention patterns. We leverage this shared knowledge to develop new recruitment and retention strategies that enhance the resilience of the public child welfare workforce.
Title IV-E evaluation instruments are designed to assess both program processes and outcomes, and include the perspectives of all program partners, including students, universities, county and Tribal agencies, CDSS, UC Davis and UCLA.
To learn more about California Title IV-E evaluation practices, consult our complete Title IV-E Stiped Program Evaluation Plan. Please note that this plan was published in 2017, when the program was still housed at the California Social Work Education Center (CalSWEC), based at UC Berkeley.
Title IV-E Reports
In March 2020, the Title IV-E team released the results of the Title IV-E Retrospective Study. This evaluation was based on the responses of more than 1,650 Title IV-E graduates and covered topics including demographics, public child welfare experience prior to entering the program, employment experiences and career trajectories (fields, positions, years worked, and employment transitions).
Read the Title IV-E Retrospective Study
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