Improving Outcomes for Children and Families (eBook, ePUB)

Finding and Using International Evidence
Redaktion: Lightburn, Anita; Rose, Wendy; Vecchiato, Tiziano; Maluccio, Tony; Aldgate, Jane; Canali, Cinzia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Significant amounts of money and resources are spent on child and family services, so successful evaluation of whether or not they are achieving the best outcomes is therefore essential.

This edited collection offers an international perspective on the challenges of designing and undertaking outcome-based evaluation of child and family services. With contributions from leading international experts, it introduces the key ideas and issues currently being debated in the evaluation of these services; discusses relevant approaches to designing and using evaluation methods; and provides examples of evaluation from the real world of policy and practice. Issues covered include setting appropriate indicators for service effectiveness, cross-cultural evaluation of service interventions, service user involvement in evaluation, and evaluations of family and community-based services.

This invaluable book will be essential reading for policy makers, planners, commissioners and managers across child and family welfare services, as well as researchers and other academics in the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857002488
• Artikelnr.: 38233608

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. James K. Whittaker
University of Washington
USA. Part 1. Evaluating Outcomes for Children and Families: Improving the Evidence Base. 1. Improving the Evidence Base. Anthony N. Maluccio
University of Connecticut
USA
Cinzia Canali
Fondazione Zancan
Italy
Tiziano Vecchiato
Fondazione Zancan
Italy
Anita Lightburn
Fordham University
USA
Jane Aldgate
The Open University
UK and Wendy Rose
The Open University
UK. 2. Demystifying Evidence in Child Welfare. Nina Biehal
University of York
UK. 3. Unlocking the Mysteries of Program Evaluation: Lessons from a Comprehensive Evaluation of an Innovative Program to Reunify Families. Barbara A. Pine and Robin Spath
University of Connecticut
USA. Part 2. Methods for Finding and Using Evidence. 4. Evaluating Complexity in Community-Based Programs. Anita Lightburn
Fordham University
USA
and Chris Warren-Adamson
University of Southampton
UK. 5. Approaches to Evaluation in Services for Families and Children. Cinzia Canali
Anthony N. Maluccio and Tiziano Vecchiato. 6. Understanding the Nature
Structure and Context of Services in Family Support Centres. Marianne Berry
University of Kansas
USA
and Colleen Reed
University of Denver
USA. 7. In Their Own Words: Alumni of Foster Care in the US Talk about Preparation for Independent Living. Anne Nicoll
University of Washington
USA
Kate Holmes Thompson
Peter J. Pecora
Catherine Roller White
Kirk O'Brien
Casey Family Programs
USA
and Arron K. Fain
Texas Department of Family and Protective Services
USA. 8. The Challenge of Using Administrative Data in Cross-National Evaluations of Services in Out-of-Home Care. June Thoburn
University of East Anglia
UK. Part 3. Evaluating Outcomes in the Real World: International Evidence from Community-Based Practice. 9. Taking Standardised Programmes to Different Cultural Contexts: An Example from Scotland. Jane Aldgate and Wendy Rose. 10. Child Physical Abuse and Neglect: Risk Assessment and Evaluation of Early Prevention Programmes. Hans Grietens
University of Leuven
Belgium. 11. Identifying Outcomes at the Sunshine Family Centre in Outer London. Marian Brandon
University of East Anglia
UK. 12. The Important Place of Professional Relationship: A Case Study of an Israeli Family. Anat Zeira
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel. 13. Evaluation of Sensitised Practice in a Community Centre in Aotearoa
New Zealand. Robyn Munford
Massey University
New Zealand
Jackie Sanders
Massey University
New Zealand
and Bruce Maden
Te Aroha Noa Community Services
New Zealand. 14. Assessing Practice in a Child and Family Centre in Australia. Patricia M. McNamara
La Trobe University
Australia. Afterword. Cross-National Perspectives and Ideas. Mark Ezell
University of Kansas
USA. References. The Contributors. Subject Index. Author Index.