Designing Evaluations in Child Welfare Organizations: An Approach for Administrators

Catherine Lawrence; Jessica Strolin-Goltzman; James Caringi; Nancy Claiborne; Mary McCarthy; Erin Butts; Kelsey O'Connell

doi:10.1080/03643107.2011.607887

Designing Evaluations in Child Welfare Organizations: An Approach for Administrators

Catherine Lawrence
, Jessica Strolin-Goltzman
, James Caringi
, Nancy Claiborne
, Mary McCarthy
, Erin Butts
, Kelsey O'Connell

School of Public and Community Health Sciences

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Evaluations in child welfare settings present challenges and opportunities for administrators. This paper presents a framework for considering such evaluations and proposes mixed methods to assess participatory interventions for sustainable organizational change. A progression of three studies illustrates this approach and draws on results to demonstrate how evaluation designs impact findings.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3-13
Number of pages	11
Journal	Administration in Social Work
Volume	37
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/03643107.2011.607887
State	Published - 2013

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child welfare
mixed method research
organizational interventions
participatory action research

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