Through the children, youth, and families course offerings, the enhancement seminars, and the practice symposium, students prepare for leadership and work in permanency planning and family preservation with children and their families in child welfare. Many of these families are experiencing many challenges and obstacles to adequate functioning, because of maltreatment, substance abuse, HIV infection, socio-economic disadvantage, and other challenges.
The ultimate purpose of the Title IV-E project is to deliver social work education to undergraduate and graduate students that will prepare them for careers in child welfare by way of delivering professional education to current CPS employees and recruiting BSW and MSW students to work in public child welfare. Through the children, youth and families course offerings, the enhancement seminars, and the practice symposium, students prepare for leadership and work in permanency planning and family preservation with children and their families in child welfare.
The Title IV-E Program is a federally funded initiative to integrate the social work profession into child welfare by offering stipends to students interested in working within child protective services. The purpose of the grant is to train professional social work practitioners for child welfare work.