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Using Information Management to Support the Goals of Safety, Permanencey and Well Being
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Welcome!!! We created this site to provide public child welfare agencies access to a field-tested, trainer's guide to a curriculum titled Using Information Management to Support the Goals of Safety, Permanency and Well Being. This competency-based curriculum offers child welfare supervisors opportunities to learn, enhance and practice the information management skills they need to improve child welfare practice. Funded by the Children's Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, this effort was managed by a project team at the Institute for Child and Family Policy, Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine. Federal funds for this project came from Section 426 of the Social Security Act, which provides funding to Institutions of Higher Education to train personnel in the field of child welfare.

The project team organized the curriculum into eleven modules. Because of the modular approach, each public child welfare agency will be able to customize the curriculum to meet its unique needs, in effect to tailor a curriculum for itself from the modules already developed by the project team.

Using experiential, active learning methods, the curriculum presents topics such as:

  • identifying, locating and using key data needed for informed casework supervision
  • the impact of technology in the workplace
  • the changing job of the child welfare supervisor
  • the supervisor's role in decreasing resistance and building commitment to change
  • using information management to achieve agency goals and
  • data analysis tips, tools and techniques

The curriculum provides an opportunity for participants in the training to demonstrate lessons learned during the training back in the office with the units they supervise.
This curriculum is designed to complement and integrate with, not supplant, a state's existing SACWIS and supervisory training.

Feel free to review and download the curriculum. To discuss your use of the materials presented in this curriculum, please contact Susan Kanak, Project Director, at 207-780-5840 or skanak@usm.maine.edu

Institute for Child and Family Policy Project Team
Mary Colombo, Research Assistant
Susan Kanak, Project Director
David Karraker, Evaluation Specialist
Bruce Webb, Consultant

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