The Grant Program
In 1995 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) funded five grants though the Children's Bureau's Child Welfare Services Training program. These five grants were to "encourage the development of training packages for in-service education to improve practice in critical areas of child welfare. The grants also sought to build on and expand the scope of partnerships between social work education programs and public child welfare agencies." (Federal Register, volume 60, No. 89, p 24714).
A paper on Child Protection and Domestic Violence: Training, Practice and Policy issues summarizes the experience of the five programs.
The five grants in the priority area of working with families contending with domestic and/or community violence were:
- Columbia University School of Social Work
materials featured on this Web site
- Department of Social Welfare, University of California at Los Angeles
Intervention in Child Maltreatment and Domestic Violence
A paper on the project presented at the 11th National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect
- Partnership Project on Domestic Violence
A collaboration between Simmons College School of Social Work, Boston City Hosptial and the Masachusetts Department of Social Services
- Temple University School of Social Work
- Department of Social Work, Tennessee State University