Joan Levy Zlotnik
Biographic Data
| ID | 134463 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan Levy Zlotnik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan Levy |
| FAMILY NAME | Zlotnik |
| SIGNATURE | ZLOTNIK J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Social Work Policy Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The impact of targeted permanency and post-permanency services on continued family stability: An introduction
For over three decades federal child welfare policy has promoted three goals to achieve permanent outcomes for children: 1) making reasonable efforts to prevent out of home placement; 2) reunifying
Social Workers Count: Numbers and Social Issues
No matter their field or method of practice, social workers need to understand and apply mathematics to their work. Whether figuring out how many clients one must see in a private or group practice
Advancing Social Work Education for Health Impact
Social work education plays a critical role in preparing social workers to lead efforts that improve health. Because of the dynamic health care landscape, schools of social work must educate students to facilitate health care system improvements, enhance population health, and reduce medical costs. We reviewed the existing contributions of social work education and provided recommendations for improving the education of social workers in 6 key ar…
Building the Profession's Research Infrastructure
Beginning in 1988, the social work profession undertook a twenty-five year endeavor to enhance its research capacity and to assure greater representation of social work research needs, priorities and findings at the federal level, where major policy initiatives take place. Described here are some of the key processes, highlighting the efforts to achieve professional solidarity, and the interventions, by social workers, federal 'insiders' and outs…
Status of the Use of Title IV-E Funding in BSW and MSW Programs
Social work education programs collaborate with child welfare agencies in efforts to promote the recruitment and retention of competent and professional child welfare workers. Title IV-E training funds have been a major source of support of these efforts by facilitating the social work education of child welfare workers, as well as supporting currently employed workers who return to school. This study describes the current status of Title IV-E fu…
Retention of front-line staff in child welfare: A systematic review of research
Developing Research Infrastructure: The Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research
This article reviews the 15 years of research development efforts of the Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research (IASWR); delineates IASWR's roles in relation to the social work practice, education, and research communities; presents the transdisciplinary and transorganizational partnerships in which IASWR engages to influence national-level policy; identifies markers that demonstrate increased capacity; and, finally, points toward …
Organizational and Institutional Factors Associated With National Institutes of Health Research Grant Awards to Social Work Programs
This study examines the organizational and institutional factors that may be associated with the success of schools of social work (SOSWs) in securing research grant awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and constituent agencies. Using data from the CRISP database on NIH grant funding, the Lombardi Program on Measuring University Performance, the Council on Social Work Education, the American Association of University Professors, an…
Evidence-Based Practice and Social Work Education: A View From Washington
The growing focus on evidence-based practice (EBP) provides important opportunities for the social work profession to expand its research capacities as well as strategies for teaching students to use research. The use of evidence in developing policies and implementing innovative practices provides excellent opportunities for high-quality research and evaluation efforts, and an evidence-based perspective is applicable at the micro and macro level…
No Simple Answers to a Complex Question: A Response to Perry
The issue of whether professional social workers make better child welfare workers than nonsocial workers is a considerably complex one. Simply determining better is itself a difficult undertaking. For example, does better mean reduced turnover among professionally trained social worker child welfare specialists, or should it mean better outcomes for children served? Considerable prior work supports the contention that social workers can make bet…
The Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research: Working to Increase Our Practice and Policy Evidence Base
This invitational update on the Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research (IASWR) provides an overview of the work and progress toward strengthening the evidence base for social work practice and policy through research. The article includes information regarding IASWR work with its supporting social work organizations to provide a social work presence at national policy tables and highlights gains grown from educative and advocacy ef…
The Use of Title IV-E Training Funds for Social Work Education: An Historical Perspective
There is a workforce crisis in child welfare (Alwon & Reitz, 2000). Child welfare agencies throughout the country are challenged to recruit and retain competent child welfare staff to carry out their adoption, family support, foster care, protective service and family preservation programs. Child welfare administrators want to ensure that their current workforce has the necessary training and are also looking for creative strategies to bring new …
The Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research: Strengthening Social Work Research in Practice and Policy
This article discusses efforts over the past decade to strengthen social work research; in particular, the role of the Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research (IASWR) is highlighted. Activities that IASWR has undertaken to build research infrastructure, to advance the knowledge base of the profession, and to strengthen the relationship of research to practice and policy are discussed. The article concludes with a review of the curre…
The Use of Title IV-E Training Funds for Social Work Education: An Historical Perspective
There is a workforce crisis in child welfare (Alwon & Reitz, 2000). Child welfare agencies throughout the country are challenged to recruit and retain competent child welfare staff to carry out their adoption, family support, foster care, protective service and family preservation programs. Child welfare administrators want to ensure that their current workforce has the necessary training and are also looking for creative strategies to bring new …
Evidence-Based Practice and Social Work Education: A View From Washington
The growing focus on evidence-based practice (EBP) provides important opportunities for the social work profession to expand its research capacities as well as strategies for teaching students to use research. The use of evidence in developing policies and implementing innovative practices provides excellent opportunities for high-quality research and evaluation efforts, and an evidence-based perspective is applicable at the micro and macro level…
The Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research: Strengthening Social Work Research in Practice and Policy
This article discusses efforts over the past decade to strengthen social work research; in particular, the role of the Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research (IASWR) is highlighted. Activities that IASWR has undertaken to build research infrastructure, to advance the knowledge base of the profession, and to strengthen the relationship of research to practice and policy are discussed. The article concludes with a review of the curre…
Status of the Use of Title IV-E Funding in BSW and MSW Programs
Social work education programs collaborate with child welfare agencies in efforts to promote the recruitment and retention of competent and professional child welfare workers. Title IV-E training funds have been a major source of support of these efforts by facilitating the social work education of child welfare workers, as well as supporting currently employed workers who return to school. This study describes the current status of Title IV-E fu…
The Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research: Working to Increase Our Practice and Policy Evidence Base
This invitational update on the Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research (IASWR) provides an overview of the work and progress toward strengthening the evidence base for social work practice and policy through research. The article includes information regarding IASWR work with its supporting social work organizations to provide a social work presence at national policy tables and highlights gains grown from educative and advocacy ef…
Advancing Social Work Education for Health Impact
Social work education plays a critical role in preparing social workers to lead efforts that improve health. Because of the dynamic health care landscape, schools of social work must educate students to facilitate health care system improvements, enhance population health, and reduce medical costs. We reviewed the existing contributions of social work education and provided recommendations for improving the education of social workers in 6 key ar…
No Simple Answers to a Complex Question: A Response to Perry
The issue of whether professional social workers make better child welfare workers than nonsocial workers is a considerably complex one. Simply determining better is itself a difficult undertaking. For example, does better mean reduced turnover among professionally trained social worker child welfare specialists, or should it mean better outcomes for children served? Considerable prior work supports the contention that social workers can make bet…
The Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research: Strengthening Social Work Research in Practice and Policy
This article discusses efforts over the past decade to strengthen social work research; in particular, the role of the Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research (IASWR) is highlighted. Activities that IASWR has undertaken to build research infrastructure, to advance the knowledge base of the profession, and to strengthen the relationship of research to practice and policy are discussed. The article concludes with a review of the curre…
The Use of Title IV-E Training Funds for Social Work Education: An Historical Perspective
There is a workforce crisis in child welfare (Alwon & Reitz, 2000). Child welfare agencies throughout the country are challenged to recruit and retain competent child welfare staff to carry out their adoption, family support, foster care, protective service and family preservation programs. Child welfare administrators want to ensure that their current workforce has the necessary training and are also looking for creative strategies to bring new …
No Simple Answers to a Complex Question: A Response to Perry
The issue of whether professional social workers make better child welfare workers than nonsocial workers is a considerably complex one. Simply determining better is itself a difficult undertaking. For example, does better mean reduced turnover among professionally trained social worker child welfare specialists, or should it mean better outcomes for children served? Considerable prior work supports the contention that social workers can make bet…
The Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research: Working to Increase Our Practice and Policy Evidence Base
This invitational update on the Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research (IASWR) provides an overview of the work and progress toward strengthening the evidence base for social work practice and policy through research. The article includes information regarding IASWR work with its supporting social work organizations to provide a social work presence at national policy tables and highlights gains grown from educative and advocacy ef…
Evidence-Based Practice and Social Work Education: A View From Washington
The growing focus on evidence-based practice (EBP) provides important opportunities for the social work profession to expand its research capacities as well as strategies for teaching students to use research. The use of evidence in developing policies and implementing innovative practices provides excellent opportunities for high-quality research and evaluation efforts, and an evidence-based perspective is applicable at the micro and macro level…
Retention of front-line staff in child welfare: A systematic review of research
Developing Research Infrastructure: The Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research
This article reviews the 15 years of research development efforts of the Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research (IASWR); delineates IASWR's roles in relation to the social work practice, education, and research communities; presents the transdisciplinary and transorganizational partnerships in which IASWR engages to influence national-level policy; identifies markers that demonstrate increased capacity; and, finally, points toward …
Organizational and Institutional Factors Associated With National Institutes of Health Research Grant Awards to Social Work Programs
This study examines the organizational and institutional factors that may be associated with the success of schools of social work (SOSWs) in securing research grant awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and constituent agencies. Using data from the CRISP database on NIH grant funding, the Lombardi Program on Measuring University Performance, the Council on Social Work Education, the American Association of University Professors, an…
Status of the Use of Title IV-E Funding in BSW and MSW Programs
Social work education programs collaborate with child welfare agencies in efforts to promote the recruitment and retention of competent and professional child welfare workers. Title IV-E training funds have been a major source of support of these efforts by facilitating the social work education of child welfare workers, as well as supporting currently employed workers who return to school. This study describes the current status of Title IV-E fu…
Building the Profession's Research Infrastructure
Beginning in 1988, the social work profession undertook a twenty-five year endeavor to enhance its research capacity and to assure greater representation of social work research needs, priorities and findings at the federal level, where major policy initiatives take place. Described here are some of the key processes, highlighting the efforts to achieve professional solidarity, and the interventions, by social workers, federal 'insiders' and outs…
Advancing Social Work Education for Health Impact
Social work education plays a critical role in preparing social workers to lead efforts that improve health. Because of the dynamic health care landscape, schools of social work must educate students to facilitate health care system improvements, enhance population health, and reduce medical costs. We reviewed the existing contributions of social work education and provided recommendations for improving the education of social workers in 6 key ar…
Social Workers Count: Numbers and Social Issues
No matter their field or method of practice, social workers need to understand and apply mathematics to their work. Whether figuring out how many clients one must see in a private or group practice
The impact of targeted permanency and post-permanency services on continued family stability: An introduction
For over three decades federal child welfare policy has promoted three goals to achieve permanent outcomes for children: 1) making reasonable efforts to prevent out of home placement; 2) reunifying
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