Document Category: Education/Professional Development

A Road Map to Implementing Evidence-Based Programs

This course provides guidance to facilitate selection and implementation of one of the many evidence-based programs related to prevention and treatment that are publicly available today. Learning objectives include (1) selecting the program that best matches organizational needs and (2) carrying out the steps necessary to implement the program of choice. 

Implementing Evidence-Based Practice in Treatment Foster Care: A Resource Guide

This resource guide highlights valuable information, references, resources, and tools for implementing Evidence-based Practices (EBPs) in Treatment Foster Care (TFC) service settings. The resource guide identifies specific models, interventions, and tools that TFC providers can use to deliver effective services to the children, youth, and families in their care. It also provides “how-to” information to …

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Finding the Fit: Evidence-Based Practice in MSW Curricula

This webinar is based upon Janus webinar series participants’ comments, questions and requests, course syllabi and strategies employed in bringing evidence-based practice and implementation science into three MSW programs were presented. 

Integrating Evidence Based Practice in MSW Curricula

This webinar reviews the various ways graduate programs have integrated teaching evidence–based practice, as well as implementation science and frameworks into MSW curricula. The schools featured include Washington University­, University of Washington, Fordham University, and University of Missouri.

Cost Analysis in Program Evaluation: A Guide for Child Welfare Researchers and Service Providers

This guide offers a framework for integrating cost analysis into program evaluations as part of child welfare services; providing guidance for defining the scope and purpose of a cost analysis and determining the information needed to conduct it; and explaining core steps in conducting a cost analysis and describing the advantages and disadvantages of specific …

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Evidence Based Practice in MSW Curricula: Misconceptions and Facts

This webinar introduces the Consortium and the Janus Webinar Series, presents findings from of evidence-based practice preparedness and workforce development, addresses misconceptions about evidence-based practice expressed in peer-reviewed literature and also evident in a study of North American MSW curricula

Evidence-based Practice Implementation Model: NCWWI 1-page Summary

This paper summarizes the article “Advancing a Conceptual Model of Evidence-Based Practice Implementation in Public Service Sectors”, which proposes a four-phase implementation process model- adapted to public service sector settings, highlights the important variables, challenges, and opportunities of each phase (Exploration, Adoption/Preparation, Implementation, & Sustainment), considers inner and outer contexts, and discusses implications for further …

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Evidence Based Practices in North American MSW Curricula

This study examines the extent to which EBPs are taught in North American Masters of Social Work (MSW curricula). Results of a web-based survey from fifty-eight program deans and directors indicted while the majority of programs reported teaching at least one EBP and developing EBP skill sets, challenges to curriculum integration were noted. Ideological, definitional, …

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