Equipping social workers on the front line: The child welfare and addiction specialist fellowship program

为前线的社会工作者提供装备：儿童福利和成瘾专家奖学金计划

• 批准号: 10682109
• 负责人: Karen G. Chartier
• 金额: $ 18.57万
• 依托单位: VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-04-01 至 2027-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10682109
• 关键词: Address; Adopted; Alcohols; Area; Caregivers; Child; Child Abuse and Neglect; Child Welfare; Clinical; Communities; Competence; Complex; Country; Development; Education; Educational Models; Educational workshop; Evidence based intervention; Evidence based program; Evidence based treatment; Family; Feedback; Fellowship Program; Funding; Goals; Health Professional; Home; Individual; Intervention; Interview; Knowledge; Link; Medical; Methods; Modeling; Outcome; Patients; Prevention; Professional Practice; Provider; Psychiatry; Public Health; Qualifying; Qualitative Methods; Resources; Risk; Services; Social Work; Social Workers; Specialist; Stigmatization; Substance Use Disorder; Substance abuse problem; Supervision; System; Time; Training; Training Programs; Training and Education; United States Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; Universities; Virginia; addiction; alcohol abuse therapy; alcohol use disorder; behavior change; education research; effective intervention; effective therapy; foster care; high risk; improved; innovation; maltreatment; medication-assisted treatment; multidisciplinary; opioid epidemic; outreach program; peer; programs; recruit; response; screening; skills; social stigma; standardize measure; substance use; underserved community

PROJECT SUMMARY Best estimates suggest up to 68% of child welfare cases involve a caregiver with an alcohol and/or other substance use disorder (AOSUDs), which is a significant public health problem given that in 2020 alone there were 3.9 million child welfare referrals involving 7.1 million children! Child welfare professionals lack knowledge of AOSUDs and their evidence-based treatments and many caregivers’ AOSUDs go unidentified and untreated, which puts children at greater risk for maltreatment and out-of-home placements. To address this issue, the proposed training program seeks funding to enhance Virginia Commonwealth University’s (VCU) federally-supported Title IV-E child welfare professional training program with specialized training on AOSUDs integrated with an ongoing clinical/peer supervision and a tele-education (ECHO) model. Project aims include: (a) to recruit 30 child welfare professionals who are alumni of VCU’s Title IV-E child welfare program to participate in a two-year specialized training program; (b) to assess the impact of the program on caseworker skill and confidence in screening, intervening, and referring child-welfare involved families impacted by AOSUDs; and (c) to identify barriers and facilitators to the effective implementation of AOSUD training in child welfare settings. Without enhanced training programs such as the one proposed here, child welfare professionals will continue to lack the education and support they need to address AOSUDs among the majority of families and children involved in the child welfare system. With almost 150 Title IV-E programs across 35 states, the findings from this innovative training program will inform the development of an evidence- based program that can be replicated to improve child welfare outcomes across the country.

项目摘要 最佳估计表明，多达68％ 药物使用障碍（Aosuds），这是一个重大的公共卫生问题，鉴于仅2020年就在那里 涉及710万儿童的390万儿童福利转介！儿童福利专业人士缺乏知识 Aosuds及其基于循证的治疗以及许多看护人的Aosuds尚不确定，并且 未经治疗，这使儿童面临更大的虐待和室外安置的风险。解决这个问题 问题，拟议的培训计划寻求资金来增强弗吉尼亚英联邦大学（VCU） 联邦支持的标题IV-E儿童福利专业培训计划，并针对Aosuds进行专门培训 与正在进行的临床/同伴监督和远程教育（ECHO）模型集成在一起。项目目标包括： （a）招募30名VCU校友IV-E儿童福利计划的儿童福利专业人员 参加为期两年的专业培训计划； （b）评估该计划对案例工作者的影响 在筛查，干预和转诊儿童福利方面的技能和信心涉及受到影响的家庭 aosuds; （c）确定在儿童中有效实施Aosud培训的障碍和促进者 福利设置。没有增强的培训计划，例如这里提出的培训计划，儿童福利 专业人员将继续缺乏他们在解决方面所需的教育和支持 大多数参与儿童福利制度的家庭和儿童。拥有近150个标题IV-E程序 在35个州，该创新培训计划的调查结果将为证据的发展提供信息 - 可以复制以改善全国儿童福利成果的基础计划。