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Climate Change In Private Child Welfare Organizations, Catherine K. Lawrence, Wendy Zeitlin, Charles Auerbach, Nancy Claiborne
Climate Change In Private Child Welfare Organizations, Catherine K. Lawrence, Wendy Zeitlin, Charles Auerbach, Nancy Claiborne
Department of Social Work and Child Advocacy Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Agency-based design teams effectively address workforce issues in public child welfare agencies. This article presents findings from an adaptation of a design team intervention for private child welfare agencies. A longitudinal mixed-methodology design measures effects of the intervention and conditions of implementation. Pre–post surveys of workers (n = 137) and a comparison group (n = 153) measure climate, job satisfaction, perceptions of child welfare, and intent to leave. Statistically significant increases of 0.37 points on dimensions of organizational justice and support (justice: p = 0.01; support: p = 0.03) parallel the team’s perceived effect of their work—that it will make …
Young Children's Ability To Use Two-Dimensional And Three-Dimensional Symbols To Show Placements Of Body Touches And Hidden Objects, Nicole Lytle, Kamala London, Maggie Bruck
Young Children's Ability To Use Two-Dimensional And Three-Dimensional Symbols To Show Placements Of Body Touches And Hidden Objects, Nicole Lytle, Kamala London, Maggie Bruck
Department of Social Work and Child Advocacy Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
In two experiments, we investigated 3- to 5-year-old children's ability to use dolls and human figure drawings as symbols to map body touches. In Experiment 1, stickers were placed on different locations of children's bodies, and the children were asked to indicate the locations of the stickers using three different symbols: a doll, a human figure drawing, and the adult researcher. Performance on the tasks increased with age, but many 5-year-olds did not attain perfect performance. Surprisingly, younger children made more errors on the two-dimensional (2D) human figure drawing task compared with the three-dimensional (3D) doll and adult tasks. In …
Societal Factors Impacting Child Welfare: Validating The Perceptions Of Child Welfare Scale, Charles Auerbach, Wendy Zeitlin, Astraea Augsberger, Brenda G. Mcgowan, Nancy Claiborne, Catherine K. Lawrence
Societal Factors Impacting Child Welfare: Validating The Perceptions Of Child Welfare Scale, Charles Auerbach, Wendy Zeitlin, Astraea Augsberger, Brenda G. Mcgowan, Nancy Claiborne, Catherine K. Lawrence
Department of Social Work and Child Advocacy Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
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Climate Factors Related To Intention To Leave In Administrators And Clinical Professionals, Nancy Claiborne, Charles Auerbach, Wendy Zeitlin, Catherine K. Lawrence
Climate Factors Related To Intention To Leave In Administrators And Clinical Professionals, Nancy Claiborne, Charles Auerbach, Wendy Zeitlin, Catherine K. Lawrence
Department of Social Work and Child Advocacy Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
This study seeks to identify the best-fitting model to determine which organizational factors relate to the various dimensions of not-for-profit administrators or clinicians' intention to leave their jobs. A structural equation model (SEM) analyzed data on 318 administrators and clinical professionals. Based on this analysis, the best-fitting model was comprised of three factors consisting of three latent variables, and four exogenous variables regressed on them. Model fit statistics indicated the data fit the model well. The Comparative Fit Index (CFI) values was 0.99. The Tucker-Lewis Index (TLI) assessed the model's goodness-of-fit excellent at 0.99. The model indicates that administrators and …
Organizational Climate Factors Of Successful And Not Successful Implementations Of Workforce Innovations In Voluntary Child Welfare Agencies, Nancy Claiborne, Charles Auerbach, Wendy Zeitlin, Catherine K. Lawrence
Organizational Climate Factors Of Successful And Not Successful Implementations Of Workforce Innovations In Voluntary Child Welfare Agencies, Nancy Claiborne, Charles Auerbach, Wendy Zeitlin, Catherine K. Lawrence
Department of Social Work and Child Advocacy Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
This study advances research on implementing innovations in child welfare organizations, confirming the association between a positive organizational climate and successful change initiative implementation. Administrators and child welfare workers from six agencies were surveyed using independent samples t-and OLS regressions. The organizational climate dimensions found significant were organization, job and role, indicating the three agencies that fully implemented a change initiative enjoyed a more positive organizational climate. The organization dimension was also significant for administrators, indicating a more positive climate perception than workers. Supervisor dimension was not significant, indicating no association whether or not the change initiative was implemented.
Where Have We Been And Where Are We Going? A Conceptual Framework For Child Advocacy, Michele Cascardi, Cathy Brown, Svetlana Shpiegel, Ariel Alvarez
Where Have We Been And Where Are We Going? A Conceptual Framework For Child Advocacy, Michele Cascardi, Cathy Brown, Svetlana Shpiegel, Ariel Alvarez
Department of Social Work and Child Advocacy Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
The primary goal of this article is to chart the development of child advocacy as an interdisciplinary field of study and conclude with a conceptual framework for research and higher education in child advocacy. Historically, child advocacy has justifiably focused on protection needs. Values and assumptions about children's best interest have also governed child advocacy, in part because evidence to inform decisions was lacking and in part because of its history as an activist movement. Against this historical backdrop, we describe contemporary trends in child advocacy that reconcile children's protection with their inherent rights to personhood. We rely on the …