Faculty Publications

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

September 2013

Publication Title

Journal of Public Child Welfare

Volume

7

Issue Number

4

First Page

411

Last Page

429

DOI

10.1080/15548732.2013.802267

Keywords

organizations/systems, evidence-based practice, university/community partnership, collaboration, Title IV-E program

Disciplines

Social Work

Abstract

University-community partnerships are increasingly recognized as valuable in educating students for professional practice and bridging the gap between research and practice. This manuscript describes the evolution and design of a university-community partnership between a School of Social Work in one urban university and local child welfare agencies: the Child Welfare Partnership for Research and Training (CW-PART). This local partnership illustrates types of opportunities and outcomes that emerge when state and local entities leverage greater results from federal funding through partnerships with local universities. The manuscript describes 1), the community-engaged framework used to inform the overall approach and partner roles; 2) evolution of the model from early partnered research successes; 3) core elements of the CWPART university-community partnered research model, and 4) preliminary lessons learned from the pilot phase of model.

Comments

This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article whose final and definitive form, the Version of Record, has been published in the Journal of Public Child Welfare, 2013, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15548732.2013.802267.

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