Social Workers Who Left the Profession: An Exploratory Study
In: Journal of sociology & social welfare, Band 10, Heft 1
ISSN: 1949-7652
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In: Journal of sociology & social welfare, Band 10, Heft 1
ISSN: 1949-7652
In: Children and youth services review: an international multidisciplinary review of the welfare of young people, Band 34, Heft 9, S. 1915-1921
ISSN: 0190-7409
In: Children and youth services review: an international multidisciplinary review of the welfare of young people, Band 35, Heft 12, S. 2128-2134
ISSN: 0190-7409
In: Journal of social service research, Band 41, Heft 3, S. 364-384
ISSN: 1540-7314
In: Research on social work practice, Band 26, Heft 5, S. 572-582
ISSN: 1552-7581
Objective: This article describes the evaluation of permanency roundtables, an intervention to help youth in foster care achieve legal permanency and the challenges evaluators faced in finding and using appropriate comparison data. Method: In 2009, permanency roundtables were conducted for 496 children in Georgia, most of whom had spent extended time in care. Half (50%) achieved legal permanency within 24 months of the roundtables. Results: Five potential sources of comparison data, none of which provide an ideal comparison, are presented and discussed. Conclusions: Ideally, evaluators should plan for one or more comparison groups at the very beginning of the evaluation. However, post hoc comparisons should not be dismissed altogether. The challenge for evaluators is to generate valid comparison groups to determine whether an intervention made a significant improvement, despite challenges such as limited funding, tight timelines, and unmeasured contextual differences between groups.