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Portland State University's
Center for Improvment of Child & Family Services |
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Newsletter - Bi-Annual newsletters describing project, activities
and related articles |
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Resources - websites, articles, training resources for rural child
welfare |
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Training - resources and training descriptions |
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About Us - Project staff and sites |
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Portland State University partnered with Oregon’s Department
of Human Services, Children, Adults, and Families, and the Family
& Youth Services Training Academy at the University of Alaska
at Anchorage to create a plan and curricula to train over the life
of the grant 418 rural child welfare workers and 400 foster parents
and community partners to better understand and implement effective
practice to provide for the safety, permanency and well-being of
rural children and families.
Project objectives included training rural child welfare workers
in rural Oregon and Alaska in:
- Practice adaptations for implementation in rural communities;
- Practice skills necessary to implement key elements of their
state’s Program Improvement Plan (PIP) to meet the goals
of the CFSR in a rural setting;
- Strategies and skills necessary to build and support community
involvement in rural child welfare practice and policy development;
- Strategies and skills to build and/or enhance effective training
relationships and communication with the Tribes and native communities
in rural areas of Oregon and Alaska.
The Partnership’s approach to implementing this Project included:
- Convening rural child welfare staff and community partners to
identify rural child welfare practice needs;
- Developing a competency-based curriculum designed to cross-train
child welfare workers, supervisors and community partners in rural
child welfare needs;
- Delivering that curriculum both on-site and online;
- Evaluating the results of the training to demonstrate the relationship
between effective training and CFSR-focused rural child welfare
practice;
- Dissemination of findings to inform national understanding of
successful child welfare practice adaptation in rural communities.
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