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1. Facilitators and Barriers of Effective Interprofessional Collaboration between Child Welfare and School Professionals

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Villagrana, Kalah M.

Abstract

Children and youth in foster care experience poor K-12 educational outcomes compared to their peers without foster care histories. Child welfare and school professionals hold shared responsibility for ensuring their educational well-being based on federal policies and role expectations. However, professionals often experience challenges in effectively collaborating with one another to support the educational of children and youth in foster care. Guided by ecological systems and critical theory, this mixed methods explanatory sequential design explored the facilitators and barriers that child welfare professionals, school professionals, and professional caregivers viewed as promoting and hindering effective interprofessional collaboration between child welfare and school professionals. The quantitative phase involved the analysis of surveys (N = 136) collected from child welfare professionals, school professionals, and professional caregivers in an urban county in the Southwest. In the qualitative phase, interviews and focus groups were conducted with a subsample of survey participants (N = 22). Facilitators of interprofessional collaboration included: centering the best interests of the child, opportunities and capacity to meaningfully engage, effective communication, positive and trusting relationships, being knowledgeable about the child, policies, roles, and systems, and empathy towards other professionals. Barriers of interprofessional collaboration included: competing priorities or agendas, unmanageable workloads and limited time, little to no timely communication, weak ties and mistrust, limited knowledge about the child, policies, roles, and systems, and biases towards professional caregivers and other professionals. The overall findings have multiple implications for social work practice, policy, research, and education to enhance collaboration between professionals to better serve children and youth in foster care. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]

Published
2023

2. “They want to hear my voice”: facilitators of interprofessional collaboration among professionals supporting the education of children and youth in foster care.

Author

Villagrana, Kalah M.

Subjects
*BEST interests of the child (Law), *INTERPROFESSIONAL collaboration, *FOSTER home care, *EDUCATION of foster children, *CHILD welfare, *INTERPROFESSIONAL education
Abstract

An achievement gap in K-12 education exists between children in foster care and their peers. Professionals have a shared responsibility to support the education of these children, but often face barriers to engaging in interprofessional collaboration. Interviews and focus groups (N = 22) were conducted with child welfare professionals, school professionals, and professional caregivers to explore the facilitators of interprofessional collaboration in their work together. Themes included: centering the best interests of the child, effective communication, opportunities and capacity to meaningfully engage, positive and trusting relationships, being knowledgeable about the child, policies, roles, and systems, and empathy toward other professionals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2024
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3. A Quantitative Study of the Relationship Between Interprofessional Collaboration and Job Satisfaction Among Child Welfare Caseworkers.

Author

Phillips, Jon D., Villagrana, Kalah M., Gibbs, Daniel J., and Goldsborough, Elizabeth J.

Subjects
*INTERPROFESSIONAL collaboration, *JOB satisfaction, *CHILD welfare, *SOCIAL workers, *INTERPROFESSIONAL relations, *CHILD protection services
Abstract

There is a pressing need to improve job satisfaction among child welfare caseworkers given historically high turnover rates that adversely affect family outcomes. Guided by the job demands-resources model, this study examined whether caseworkers' job satisfaction was associated with their quality of interprofessional collaboration (IPC). Linear regression models were estimated using cross-sectional data provided by the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute. The sample included caseworkers (N = 1,489) in two states and one urban county in the United States. Results indicated that caseworker job satisfaction increased as their quality of IPC with service providers and court professionals improved. These findings suggest that agency leaders should foster and support IPC as a means of enhancing caseworker job satisfaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2023
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4. A Model to Improve Educational Stability Collaborations between Child Welfare and Educational Agencies: Applying the Theory of Collaborative Advantage.

Author

Villagrana, Kalah M.

Subjects
*EDUCATION of foster children, *LEGAL status of children, *CHILD welfare, *INTERORGANIZATIONAL relations, *FOSTER home care, EVERY Student Succeeds Act of 2015 (United States)
Abstract

Child welfare, state educational, and local educational agencies are mandated to collaborate by (1) the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 (FSA) and (2) the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 (ESSA). A focus of these collaborative partnerships is to promote the educational stability of children in foster care. This paper uses the theory of collaborative advantage to provide a framework for developing and maintaining educational stability collaborations mandated by FSA and ESSA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2020

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