Leadership Symposium on EvidenceBased Practice

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Welcome!

• Leadership Symposium on Evidence-Based Practice
• Shaping the Next Generation of
• Evidence in Child Welfare
• January 28th, 2008
• San Diego, California

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Building Evidence The Research and Training
Network

• Mission of the RTN
• To advance the development of sound public policy
  and promote program excellence for safe and
  stable families living in supportive communities
  through coordination of research, education,
  training, consultation and technical assistance.

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Building Evidence The Research and Training
Network

• Goals of the RTN
• Ensure that research is conducted, disseminated
  widely and integrated into practice,
• Identify practice-oriented research priorities at
  the county, regional, and statewide levels to
  assure that research is relevant to practice,
• Coordinate prioritization of research topics in
  order to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency
  of research,
• Enhance the development of working relationships
  between university faculty and agency
  administrators.

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• Leadership Symposium on Evidence-Based Practice
• Shaping the Next Generation of
• Evidence in Child Welfare
• January 28th, 2008
• San Diego, California

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Some Definitions

• EBP is the integration of best research evidence
  with clinical expertise and client values
• Sackett, Straus, Richardson, Rosenberg Haynes
  (2000). Evidence-Based Medicine How to practice
  and teach EBM (2nd ed.)
• It is the conscientious, explicit and judicious
  use of current best evidence in making decision
  about the care of individual clients
• Sackett, et al. (1997)

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Definitions, Cont.

• Practice that is informed and mindful of
• Best available research evidence
• Best clinical experience
• Client values and preferences.

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Two Aspects to Consider

• Building evidence
• Applying the evidence that we have to practice

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Building Evidence Current Activities

• Formulating and revising a statewide research
  agenda,
• Using the statewide research agenda to guide
  CalSWECs research priorities,
• Working with Regional Consortia to share and
  coordinate regional research.

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Building Evidence Future Activities

• Ongoing Revision of the Statewide Research
  Agenda,
• Additional research-based curriculum projects,
• Use of the research agenda to guide student
  research projects,
• Funding of literature analysis to address the
  research needs outlined in the agenda.

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Applying/Translating Evidence

• Regional activities to promote knowledge
  management and Research to Practice,
• Summer Research Sessions to review funded
  research and translate into practice,
• Integration of research into in-service training,
  including Common Core.

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Evidence Based Practice
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Some thoughts on EBP and Training

• Many of our interventions that we hope will
  improve outcomes are basically training
  interventions
• Logic model Training staff change in practice
  improved outcomes

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Some thoughts on EBP and Training

• We often dont know whether the trainees leave
  with knowledge and skills necessary to change
  their practice
• We also dont follow up to see what gets in the
  way of changes in their practice

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Some thoughts on EBP and Training

• Some structural changes should be considered
• More vertical caseloads allow us to study
  casework interventions
• At the very least, we need the capacity to link
  staff characteristics (like attendance at
  training) to our outcomes, so we know if our
  training interventions have accomplished anything

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Link to the Child Family Services Review

• Glenn Freitas
• Linda Hockman
• CDSS

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Todays Activity

• Review the agenda
• Review the CalSWEC research projects (linked to
  the agenda)
• Structured discussion to revise the current
  agenda
• Considerations (in your packet)

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• For more information about EBP and training
• http//calswec.berkeley.edu/
• www.cfpic.org
• www.cachildwelfareclearinghouse.org