This period of change and uncertainty in health and behavioral care service delivery is an opportune time to highlight the essential and varied roles that social workers play in achieving better health outcomes and improved psychosocial well-being for individuals, families and communities. Social Work in Health and Behavioral Health Care: Visioning the Future brought together [...]
For two decades, Title IV-E funding has been an important source of support for BSW and MSW students to be encouraged to puruse child welfare careers. The Social Work Policy Institute has created a new brief, Education Social Workers for Child Welfare Practice: The Status of Using Title IV-E Funding to Support BSW & MSW [...]
Children at Risk: Optimizing Health in an Era of Reform, a new report and action brief from the November 2011 think tank symposium are now available from the Social Work Policy Institute of the National Association of Social Workers Foundation. To set an agenda to improve children’s health outcomes, the Social Work Policy Institute (SWPI) [...]
Investing in the Social Work Workforce, a new report and action brief from a May 2011 think tank symposium is now available from the Social Work Policy Institute of the National Association of Social Workers Foundation. The report explores the need for more comprehensive, broadly available strategies that target both the recruitment and education of [...]
The quality of the direct services provided to children and families, the positive outcomes of service delivery, the successful recruitment and retention of workers, and the ability of child welfare organizations to function in times of change and stress depend on the recognition, development and affirmation of supervisors as crucial organizational and community leaders (National [...]
In celebration of its first anniversary, the Social Work Policy Institute (SWPI) developed a report to highlights its activities. In its inaugural year SWPI convened symposia that brought together practitioners, researchers, educators, representatives of government agencies, administrators and funders; developed reports and research-to-practice briefs;presented testimony; collected, analyzed and disseminated research-based information to policy makers, NASW [...]
The Social Work Policy Institute (SWPI) just released the report and brief summary from the symposium, Hospice Social Work: Linking Policy, Practice, and Research, that took place in March 2010. The report explores the connections between quality hospice social work services, the mission of hospice, federal requirements, professional standards, and the current state of hospice [...]
The NASW Social Work Policy Institute reviewed research related to caseloads, especially in child welfare agencies, and found that high caseloads can negatively impact both worker retention and service delivery outcomes. In addition worker turnover is costly to agencies in terms of training and recruitment costs as well as the added stress on workers who [...]
Final report and agenda for action now available. On November 16, 2009 the Social Work Policy Institute (SWPI) convened a think tank meeting, Social Work Research and Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER): A Research Symposium to Strengthen the Connection. This symposium examine how the social work profession might best contribute to the expanding attention to CER [...]
Publication List by Topic Dissemination/Translation/Implementation Cultural Competence EBP and Aging EBP and Child Welfare EBP and Social Work Education EBP and Mental Health General Measurement Dissemination/Translation/Implementation Barwick, M.A., Boydell, K.M., Stasiulis, E., Ferguson, H.B., Blase, K., Fixsen, D. (2005). Knowledge transfer and implementation of evidence-based practices in children’s mental health. Children’s Mental Health Ontario. Available [...]
(Updated September 2009) The Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research (IASWR) developed the Directory of Social Work Research Grants Awarded by the National Institutes of Health so that Principal Investigators (PIs) who are social work researchers funded by NIH, the topics being studied and the funding mechanisms that are being used can be [...]
IASWR collaborated with the National Institute of Mental health (NIHM) to launch an initiative focused on enhancing partnerships to integrate evidence-based mental health practices into social work education and research. The purpose of the workshop that was held on April 12, 2007 in Bethesda, Maryland was to develop strategies to accelerate integration of evidence-based mental [...]
On June 23-24, 2005, IASWR convened a symposium entitled Enhancing the Health and Well-Being of LGBT Individuals, Families, and Communities: Building a Social Work Research Agenda, supported by the Gill Foundation. The symposium addressed State of the Science, Methodology, Theory and Ethics through presentations by experienced LGBT researchers. A final panel of representatives from federal [...]
The Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research launched its Child Welfare Workforce Initiative, in January 2004 with support from the Human Services Workforce Initiative of the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Fostering Results at the University of Illinois School of Social Work’s Child and Family Research Center. Subsequent support from the Annie E. [...]
The Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research (IASWR) developed, Strengthening University/Agency Partnerships to Enhance Child Welfare Outcomes: A Toolkit for Building Research Partnerships. It was a result of an inter-organizational initiative undertaken in collaboration with the National Association of Deans and Directors and with support and technical assistance from Casey Family Programs (CFP). [...]
documents/IASWRNursingHome.pdf In December 2004 the Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research convened leaders from policy, government, social work, psychiatry, and nursing to develop a blueprint for improving psychosocial care in nursing homes, a critical component of overall nursing home quality. Despite nursing home reform efforts and social work service provision directed toward meeting [...]
What is IASWR’s Mission? What is Social Work Research? What Does IASWR Do? Highlights 1993-2003 Bridging Research and Practice Connecting Research and Policy
The 2007-2008 IASWR Annual Report highlights important outcomes of our work related to developing research capacity, influencing science and science policy and evidence-based practice. Recent IASWR publications and information on IASWR contributors is also provided. We hope that this Annual Report will serve as a guide to the breadth of IASWR’s work and help facilitate [...]
IASWR developed Social Work’s Contribution to Research on Cancer Prevention, Detection, Diagnosis, Treatment and Survivorship. The report describes the linkages between NCI priorities and social work research and identifies potential strategies and next steps to increase social work participation in cancer research. IASWR is grateful to the National Cancer Institute for its partial support of [...]
http://sowkweb.usc.edu/projects/safe/ Project SAFe, is a a CDC-funded multi-site study that tested a systematic evidence-based case management approach to improve patient cancer screening follow-up adherence for a target population of medically under-served low-income, ethnic minority women with abnormal breast and cervical screens. Materials and tools can be used as resources to adapt or modify case management [...]
The Task Force on Administrative Research Infrastructures within Social Work Programs was appointed by the National Association of Deans and Directors (NADD) and sponsored by the Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research (IASWR), with funding from the National Institute of Mental Health. Its purpose was to develop recommendations for administrative strategies and models [...]
IASWR identified and documented contributions from social work research in violence prevention, especially in the areas of child maltreatment and domestic violence. The goal was to identify how social work researchers and social work institutions (organizations and academia) can contribute through research and the translation of research into practice, to the endeavors of public health [...]
This seminal report, the product of the inquiry of the Task Force on Social Work Research over a three year period (1988-1991) examined the status of research and research training in the social work profession. The Task Force, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, and advocated for by the National Association of Social [...]