| Objectives |
Tasks/Activities |
Responsible
Parties |
Status |
Year
One (Oct. 00-Sept 01):
Work collaboratively with the Kentucky child welfare agency
and a national multi-disciplinary project advisory council to
develop an ASFA implementation 'promising practices' analysis,
create ASFA implementation competencies and design a curriculum
to train child welfare managers and supervisors in data use
and ASFA implementation skills. |
1.1
Establish a national multi-disciplinary project advisory council |
Project
team |
Done |
| 1.2
Survey the literature and poll selected state child welfare
agencies to develop a list of 'promising practices' that sites
are using to implement ASFA |
Project
team |
Done |
| 1.3
Develop an ASFA 'promising practices' implementation analysis |
Project
team, KY, Advisory Council |
Done |
| 1.4
Define management and supervisory competencies |
Project
Team, KY, Advisory Council |
Done |
| 1.5
Develop a core curriculum entitled, Understanding and Implementing
ASFA |
Project
team, KY, Advisory Council |
Done |
| 1.6
Develop a protocol to evaluate the effectiveness of the curriculum |
Project
team |
Done |
| 1.7
Develop a national dissemination strategy and plan that focuses
on state child welfare agencies and institutions of higher education |
Project
team, KY, Advisory Council |
Done |
Year
Two (Oct 2001 to Sept 2002):
Collaborate with child welfare agencies in Kentucky, Cuyahoga
County Ohio, New Mexico and Wisconsin to field test, evaluate
and revise the core curriculum entitled, Understanding and
Implementing ASFA.
|
2.1 Develop a process,
including criteria, to select the additional pilot sites |
Project team |
Done |
| 2.2
Select and establish agreements with the pilot sites to deliver
the curriculum |
Project
team and pilot sites |
Done |
| 2.3
Deliver the curriculum in the pilot sites |
Project
team and pilot sites |
Done |
| 2.4
Evaluate the effectiveness of the curriculum |
Project
team and pilot sites |
Done |
| 2.5
Continue to update the ASFA 'promising practices' implementation
analysis |
Project
team |
Done |
| 2.6
Revise the competency based curriculum to reflect the lesson
learned from the evaluation process |
Project
team |
Done |
| 2.7
Implement the national dissemination plan through presentations
and publications on the project |
Project
team, pilot sites and Advisory Council |
Done |
Year
Three (Oct 2002 to Sept 2003):
Implement a national dissemination plan that provides intensive
training of trainers to ten child welfare agencies, briefs regional
office staff, develops a peer to peer consultation capacity
and customizes the core curriculum to promote utilization by
institutions of higher education. |
3.1
Update the ASFA 'promising practices' analysis |
Project
team |
Done |
| 3.2
Develop and implement a peer to peer program which allows
participants in the pilot sites to offer consultation on
ASFA implementation to other child welfare agencies |
Project
team, pilot sites and Advisory Council
|
Done |
| 3.3
Work cooperatively with selected institutions of higher education
to develop a version of the core curriculum, Bringing
Together the Child Welfare Team. |
Project
team and pilot sites |
Done |
| 3.4
Brief ACF regional office staff |
Project
team and pilot sites |
Done |
| 3.5
Identify the sites and deliver the train the trainer version
of the core curriculum to selected child welfare staff from
10 sites/counties. |
Project
team and pilot sites |
Done |
| 3.6
Finalize and publish the higher ed version of the core curriculum,
Bringing Together the Child Welfare Team. |
Project
team |
Done |
| 3.7
Implement the dissemination strategy, including teleconferences,
curriculum distribution, presentations and publications |
Project
team and pilot sites |
Done |
Year Four
(Oct 2003 to Sept 2004):
Work cooperatively with selected child welfare experts and
institutions of higher education to implement a university-based
curriculum modeled on the Bringing Together the Child
Welfare Team curriculum (the core curriculum). |
4.1 Establish an advisory Council
comprised of child welfare experts, practioners and educators |
Project team |
12/15/03 |
| 4.2 Review and refine the child
welfare unit syllabus |
Project team, pilot sites and
Advisory Council |
06/15/04 |
| 4.3 Pilot the syllabus with
selected colleges/universities to ensure its effectiveness,
clarity and usefulness in educating child welfare professionals |
Project team, pilot sites and
Advisory Council |
Throughout |
| 4.4 Use the pilot results to refine
and expand the syllabus to create a Higher Education version
of the core curriculum |
Project team, pilot sites and
Advisory Council |
09/30/04 |
| 4.5 Distribute widely and support
the use of the final Higher Education curriculum. |
Project team |
09/30/04 |
