Topic: Case Management, Child Abuse, Foster Care, Safety
Target Population: Providers
Sector: Community-Based
This program is for child welfare professionals.
Charting the Course Towards Permanency for Children in Pennsylvania (Charting the Course), a community-based program, is designed to provide child welfare professionals with essential information about the child welfare system and key skills to help them better serve families in the system.
No peer-reviewed publications evaluating the effectiveness of this program were located.
The program curriculum intends to provide professionals with information and skills that can help them deliver quality services to youth and families in the child welfare system. Modules include the following:
In addition, there is an online component, Transfer of Learning (TOL), which is for registered Charting the Course participants.
The extent to which this program has been implemented was not located.
Informal training and a manual that describes how to implement the program are available. Please use details in the Contact section for more information.
Considerations for implementing this program include acquiring participant buy-in, ensuring participants have access to a computer for the TOL online component, and finding a suitable location to hold in-person sessions.
The Clearinghouse can help address these considerations. Please call 1-877-382-9185 or email Clearinghouse@psu.edu
If you are interested in implementing Charting the Course, the Clearinghouse is interested in helping you!
Please call 1-877-382-9185 or email Clearinghouse@psu.edu
The program consists of 10 in-person modules, which require 120 hours to complete, and 6 hours of online TOL work. Sessions can be held 3 or 4 days per week for 6 consecutive weeks, or it can be held 3 or 4 days per week every other week for 12 weeks.
Information on implementation costs was not located.
To move Charting the Course to the Promising category on the Clearinghouse Continuum of Evidence, at least one evaluation should be performed demonstrating positive effects lasting at least one year from the beginning of the program or at least six months from program completion.
The Clearinghouse can help you develop an evaluation plan to ensure the program components are meeting your goals. Please call 1-877-382-9185 or email Clearinghouse@psu.edu
Contact the Clearinghouse with any questions regarding this program.
Phone: 1-877-382-9185 Email: Clearinghouse@psu.edu
You may also contact the Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center by mail 403 East Winding Hill Road, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055, phone 1-717-795-9048, fax 1-717-795-8013, or visit www.pacwrc.pitt.edu/Curriculum/CTC.html
www.pacwrc.pitt.edu/Curriculum/CTC.html and www.cebc4cw.org/program/charting-the-course/detailed (This website no longer contains program information)
