National-IV-E Website
Title IV-E Child Welfare Agency/ University Partnerships Website
Title IV-E Child Welfare Agency/ University Partnerships
have been developed around the country to develop programs
in social work education which prepare undergraduate and graduate students for
work in public child welfare, as well as to provide high quality in-service
training to practitioners in public child welfare agencies. In addition, such
partnerships provide training for foster and
adoptive families as well,
such as the one facilitated at the University System of New Hampshire. These
partnerships have been formed to guide the use of Title IV-E funds in creative
ways that bear the intent of the federal legislation while meeting the unique needs of each state. In some states, multi-university
consortia have been developed to achieve these goals. Partnerships across the
country have been developing ways to collaborate and share information. This
includes the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)
Child Welfare Symposium, chaired
by Alberta Ellett at the University of Georgia, and the IV-E Partners List Serve
facilitated by them as well. This website, maintained by the University of Louisville Kent School of Social Work is
another vehicle for information sharing among the growing network of Child
Welfare Agency/University Partnerships, including current research projects, child welfare
curricula, journal articles and papers, funding announcements,
and a database of partnership characteristics. To request
that your materials be posted on this website, please email Crystal Collins-Camargo or Monit Cheung.