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This page contains information on four types of my activities. Click
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Conducting research on the current needs and career patterns of Ontario social workers. Early in 2000, our research group randomly sampled 114 members of the Ontario Association of Social Workers concerning their career needs and experiences. The research group consists of myself, Dr. Frank Turner Laura Rocco and Joan-MacKenzie-Davies, Executive Director of the OASW. Analysis is occurring through the summer of 2000. Construction of on-line educational materials to address a range of our educational programs including: MSW; Ph.D.; Adv.DipSW Research; Advanced Professional Education, Part-Time and specific projects. Priorities include: cross-cultural competency training; addictions; child welfare and social work research. A successful web-based course on enhancing cultural competency was conducted in the summer of 1999. This course was facilitated by two doctoral students: Sarah Maiter and Gary Dumbrill. A publication on this project was accepted by the European journal, New Technology in the Human Services and will be published in the early part of 2000. Two workshops on this experience will be conducted at the April University of Toronto Information Technology Forum (April 11th or 12th, 2000) and at the conference entitled, Creating the Future: A New Vision for Children to be held in Toronto on May 1st-3rd, 2000. New work for 2000-2001 will focus on refining this first web-based course on enhancing cultural competency through adding computer-assisted components. Development will start on a second web-based course on Social Work research. These offerings will be evaluated and reported on. Management team member for a new international initiative at the Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto. The China Project involves collaboration with the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the College of Civil Affairs in China to assist in the development of social work in China. In the first phase, an international conference was held in Beijing, June 22nd and 23rd, 2000. Additionally, several textbooks and distance education developments are being planned. Assisted in the development of a child protection eligibility assessment framework called the Intervention Spectrum. The Spectrum was a project of the Ontario Association of Children's Aid Society (OACAS) and was funded by the Ministry of Community and Social Services. The research focused on initial reliability and validity issues and the Spectrum was refined several times. Currently it is a mandated part of a risk assessment package that is being used by all children's aid societies in Ontario. Developers include George Leck and Mary Ballantyne of Simcoe CAS, Mary McConville of the OACAS, Margaret Morrison, OACAS and Deborah Goodman, doctoral candidate, Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto. The Children's Aid Society of the Region of Peel has made the Spectrum available on the Web. Click here to view the Spectrum. An early overview article has been published on the Spectrum. The reference is Goodman, D., MacFadden, R.J. (1996). The Intervention Spectrum: A framework for social service professionals. Journal of the Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies,Vol.40, No.1, April, 23-26.
Project for the Association of Community Information Centres in Ontario (ACICO), to develop a set of Standards for its network in the areas of personnel and database ($12,500). The project entailed surveying and qualitative interviewing of member centres and creating measurable standards. The project was completed by summer 1990. Research project for the Boys' and Girls' Club of Downtown Toronto to evaluate an innovative program for inner-city children based on a Fast-Tracking therapeutic model. Participants were trained to conduct single-subject designs to evaluate particular interventions with children. Principal investigator for the study entitled, Partners in Care supported by the Children's Aid Society of the Region of Peel. The study explored the experience of burnout and support for 87 foster parents associated with Peel CAS. Additional emphasis was placed on the contribution of organizational structures and processes to the experiences of burnout and support. A report entitled, Partners in Care: Exploring Health, Burnout and Support Dimensions of Foster Parents, was written by R. J. MacFadden, August 1987. Research grant ($12,400) awarded August 1988 by the Institute for the Prevention of Child Abuse for a study to test the effectiveness of an instructional program to train new child protection workers in child sexual abuse assessment. The project included a control group and a sample of 100 new protection workers. See the article which describes this: , MacFadden, R.J. (1989). "Sexual Abuse Assessment Training: Developing CAI in Child Welfare." Computers in Human Services, Vol.5, Nos. 3/4. Doctoral research which explored burnout among 185 child protection workers within four agencies in and around the Toronto area. Analysis and results contained in the unpublished thesis, "Worker Burnout in Child Protection," University of Toronto, 1982. A summary of the results were published in the Attack on Burnout: The Importance of Early Training and circulated to Children's Aid Societies within Canada. An abstract of the thesis was published as a Folio in Child Welfare.Data from this research were used to revise the Maslach Burnout Inventory (M.B.I.)-the most well accepted measure of professional burnout (Maslach, C., and Jackson, S. Maslach Burnout Inventory Manual. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press, 1987). Financial support was given by Health and Welfare Canada, and the Faculty Research Development Fund, Faculty of Social Work, Toronto.
Ontario Association of Social Workers. Research consultation on the association's project on the career needs and patterns of Ontario social workers, 2000-2001. Ontario Association of Residential Treatment Centres for Youth (OARTY). Membership on an advisory board for the development of a new resource matching software entitled, IRIS. See www.oarty.net/. 1998-2000. Ontario Association of Children's Aid Societies. Consultation on CAI and Keisha, a Failure to Thrive Simulation Program, 1998. Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies. Consultation on workload project design for CAS network. May 1997. Ontario College of Certified Social Workers (OCCSW). Consultation on information technology in professional social work and continuing competency credit system. 1997. Earlscourt Child and Family Centre. Consultation on single system evaluation at the agency, April 1996. Consulted with the Department of Sociology and Social Work, University of the West Indies in practice evaluation, therapy and master's field placement design. On-site visit, January-February, 1995. Community Information Centre of Metropolitan Toronto. Evaluation Consultant with Dr. Grant Macdonald, for the Senior's Project which was founded by Health and Welfare, Canada. 1990-92. Boy's and Girl's Club of Downtown Toronto (Regent Park). Creation of a new child development model with A. DiGiovanni, Executive Director, and assistance with evaluation component of model, 1991-1993. Association of Community Information Centres in Ontario. Development of Standards in Database, Personnel and Service Delivery areas. 1991-93. Association of Community Information Centres in Ontario. Conference consultation, research and preparation of a report. April-June, 1988. Peel CAS, consultation on computer development within the agency, 1985. Ministry of Community and Social Services, Province of Ontario - Research consultant for a major three year research project entitled, "Pre-work Training Project" at Metro C.A.S., 1982-83. Nancy Faulkner, Metro Toronto CAS., consultation regarding burnout within child protection, 1982.
Paper on new online course on enhancing cultural competency was presented with Gary Dumbrill and Sarah Maiter at the 2000 Integrated Conference entitled, Creating the Future…a New Vision for Children, held in Toronto on May 2nd, 2000.
Paper evaluating new online course on enhancing cultural competency was presented with Gary Dumbrill and Sarah Maiter at the University of Toronto, IT Forum held on April 12, 2000.
Paper on the development of the online course to enhance cultural competency of child protection workers
was presented at Husita5 conference held in Budapest, Hungary, August, 1999.
Presented two workshop series on the Professional Use of the Internet for Social Workers as part of the Ontario Association of Social Workers' Knowledge Fair series in continuing education, 1997. Presented session on Internet Use for Social Workers at the Scarborough Board of Education Conference, 1997. Paper on the Intervention Spectrum presented with Deborah Goodman at the 2nd International Conference on Children Exposed to Family Violence. June 6th, 1997 in London, Ontario.Organizing conference Evaluating the Effectiveness of Human Services: Issues, Options, Strategies, in conjunction with the Institute for the Prevention of Child Abuse, on June 7th, 1993. Paper presented at Husita-3 in Maastricht, Netherlands, June 16, 1993. The paper is entitled, The IT Paradigm and Knowledge Development in Human Services. Accepted for publication in forthcoming book, Stayaert, J. et al., 1994, in press (Haworth). Presentation on Accountability Loops with Dr. Gillian Kerr and Kirk Were at the United Way Conference for the Greater Toronto region, on March 3rd, 1992. Paper entitled, Developing An Electronic Human Services Community, presented at an Expert Meeting, in Maastricht, the Netherlands, January 4th, 1992. The author was invited by the government of Limberg province, Netherlands, to participate in a conference/planning session to develop the program for Husita-3 which will be held in Maastricht, during the middle of June, 1993. Paper entitled, A Child Protection Perspective on Corporal Punishment, written with Deborah Goodman, M.S.W., and presented at the Institute for the Prevention of Child Abuse, Annual Conference, October 28th, 1991. Paper entitled, CAI in Child Abuse Assessment Training: Does It Work? presented at Husita91 in New Jersey (Rutgers), June 1991. Invited by the Government of the Netherlands to attend an Expert Conference on Information Technology in Human Services, in Maastricht, Holland, December 10, 1989. Personally drafted a European Statement of Intent to establish a European network of countries interested in Information Technology in human services. Invited by the Faculty of Social Work, Bar Ilan University, to be the Keynote speaker for a conference on computerization in human services in Tel Aviv, Israel on March 19, 1989. Completed. Speaker on the Professional Workstation at the Second Annual Conference on Computers in Human Services held in Toronto, April 28, 1989. Speaker on Burnout and Management Strategies at the Model Employer Conference sponsored by the Human Resources Secretariat, The Management Board of Cabinet, Province of Ontario on January 31, 1989. Keynote speaker for the conference "Computers in Human Services" . Presented overview of information technology in human services. November 13, 1987, Oakville, Ontario. Presented paper entitled, "The Electronic Aristotle: Computer- Assisted Instruction in Human Services" at the First International Conference on Human Service Information Technology Applications, in Birmingham, England, September 1987. Presented paper entitled, "Mapping Strategies: Burnout Intervention in Human Services" at the Canadian Psychological Association Conference, June 1987 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Presenter at the Canadian Psychological Association Conference, June 1986 on Intervention and Burnout. Presenter at the OAPSW Conference in Waterloo on May 31, 1986. The presentation was on the development of a computer assisted problem-solving simulation model and included a demonstration. Presenter at the Ontario Psychological Association Annual Convention, 1984 on Burnout: Recent Developments. Chairperson, Research Workshop on Occupational Stress at York University, 1982.
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