Seminar Content

Understanding and Working with Survivors of Trauma - 6 CE hours
Social Work Evaluation: Documenting Success for Continuous Quality Improvement - 6 CE hours
Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders - 6 CE hours
Ethics and Methods of Violence Risk Assessment - 7 CE hours
Working with Emotional Pain - 7 CE hours

Social Work Evaluation: Documenting Success for Continuous Quality Improvement - 6 CE hours

Friday, June 6, 2008, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Presenter: Joan Abbey

Participants will learn why evaluation is a necessary part of ethical practice not only with individuals and family systems, but also at the program, community and policy level. The workshop will include the various types of evaluations from needs assessments to cost analysis. The workshop will encompass the following: the basics of program specification and logic model development; the process of (formative) evaluation, outcome (summative) evaluation; and studies of cost. Relative to outcome evaluations, the issues of measurement and evaluation design will be dealt with including single subject designs for clinical practice.

Learning Objectives

Participants will understand:

• Relationship between evaluation and ethical practice in social work.
• Various types of evaluation and the steps to be taken in conducting evaluations.
• Theory and technique of program specification and other steps to get a program evaluation ready.
• The necessary knowledge and skills to select measurement tools and appropriate designs to answer the participant's research questions.
• How to use evaluation for continuous quality improvement, marketing and fundraising.