Tensions and Opportunities: Building Meaningful Partnerships Between Child Welfare Decision-makers and Evaluators.

CHILD welfare workers; EVIDENCE-based social work; DECISION making in social policy; SOCIAL services -- Practice; BUSINESS partnerships -- Social aspects; CHILD welfare; INTERVENTION (Social services); LEADERSHIP; ATTITUDE (Psychology); CONTROL (Psychology); CONCEPTUAL structures; DECISION making; DIFFUSION of innovations; EXECUTIVES; INTERPROFESSIONAL relations; POLICY sciences; QUALITY assurance; TRUST; EVIDENCE-based medicine; PROFESSIONAL practice; HUMAN services programs; EVALUATION of human services programs

This article discusses how child welfare professionals and program evaluators can use the Framework to Design, Test, Spread, and Sustain Effective Practice in Child Welfare to develop meaningful partnerships to build evidence-supported interventions for the field. It describes how the Framework promotes integration of evaluation with program and policy decision-making, and increases the use of research to improve outcomes for children and families. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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