The University of Kansas School of Social Welfare through its Office of Child Welfare and Children's Mental Health (www.socwel.ku.edu/occ) is responsible for this training. Funding for the training has come from the Children's Bureau of the Administration of Children and Families of the US. Department of Health and Human Services.
Project Directors
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Terry Moore, M.S.W., and Tom McDonald, Ph.D. are Co-Principal Investigators on this project. (Click here for more detailed information) |
Trainers
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Terry Moore, M.S.W. and Stephanie Bryson M.S.W. have been the authors of the training material presented unless otherwise indicated in the module (see acknowledgements below). Lynn Osterkamp, Ph.D. has adapted training material for web-training and designed web pages that present the training. (click here for more detailed information). |
Web-development
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Allan N. Press, Ph.D. has been responsible
for website development. Ms. Lynda Heimbach, owner of LHHeimbach
Inc,
created the main ROM site. Allan Press and Lynn Osterkamp, Ph.D., created
the ROM training module pages. |
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The Oklahoma Department of Human Services, Division of Children and Family Services has been our major partner in this project. They served as the demonstration site to this training and provided feedback through a project advisory group. Special thanks go to Bill Hindman, Carol Clabo, and Marry Grissom from the Oklahoma staff. |
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The National Center for Information Technology in Child Welfare (www.nrcitcw.org) and the Child Welfare League of America (www.CWLA.org) have been partners in this project. Ms. Lynda Arnold, and Mr. Tom Hay have been very helpful. |
Special Thanks
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Special Thanks go to Charlie Rapp, Ph.D. at the University of Kansas. Charlie read and commented on many of the modules in Section 2 on using data to inform program improvement. Many of the ideas presented in this training came from Charlie over the years. He is certainly our guru for social work administration. |
Acknowledgements
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U.S. Department Health Human Services Administration Families. Administration of Children awarded a three-year grant to University of Kansas starting October 1, 2000. |
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We appreciate the fine work represented in the government publications referenced throughout the training. These publications are in the public domain and we borrowed from them for certain sections of the training. |