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The Role of Training and Technical Assistance in the Promotion of More Effective Services for Children
Pages 80-83

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From page 80...
... At the same time, confidence has grown dramatically in the ability of "preventive," "flexible," "family-centered," "collaborative," "intensive," and "individualized" services to make a real difference in the lives and prospects of those who benefit from them. This widening agreement has emerged from two primary streams of analysis: first, logical critique of the mismatch between the typical characteristics of families in need and the characteristics of mainstream service system responses and, second, an empirical assessment of the attributes common to various programs and services that appear to work.
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From page 81...
... Instead, they lend themselves far more readily to being taught through case illustrations, through observation of actual practice by experienced workers, and through constructive criticism of student work in actual ser vice settings. Given all this, I think a fairly strong case can be made for envisioning exemplary service settings and programs as the critical institutional foundations upon which we should plan and build a capacity to educate and train a newly oriented cadre of front-line child and family workers.
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From page 82...
... Put simply, it is the need for a level of fiscal, organizational, political, and management expertise sufficient to enable proponents of more effective services to create institutional and policy environments in which those very services can survive and expand. The regrettable reality is that most state and local managers of child and family services have precious little of this kind of expertise.
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From page 83...
... Real knowledge and experience in how to impact the larger environments in which services are delivered has to become a more prominent part of the skills repertoire of child advocates, child service administrators, and even front-line practitioners. Given this, it probably makes sense to specify building local capacity as a more explicit objective of any existing or future national technical assistance strategy in these areas.
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