Wicked Problems Institute to address child welfare challenges
Working together to solve child welfare’s “wicked problems”
Duncan, Stewart evaluating new project for N.C. Child Welfare System
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Two MSW students start program to help people with dementia
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Wicked Problems Institute to address child welfare challenges (Comments Off)
Numerous challenges currently face the child welfare field. But thanks to the determined efforts of a UNC School of Social Work professor, organizations from across the country will be working together to forge solutions.
Because of their complexity, the field has deemed certain challenges “wicked problems.” The term wicked has been coined within the policy [...]
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Duncan, Stewart evaluating new project for N.C. Child Welfare System (0)
The UNC School of Social Work (Dean F. Duncan, principal investigator, and C. Joy Stewart, co-investigator) will serve as the local evaluator of Project Broadcast: Disseminating Trauma-Informed Practices to Children in the N.C. Child Welfare System.
Project Broadcast is funded through a $3.2 million, five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration [...]
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Two MSW students start program to help people with dementia (0)
Two MSW students, Wendy Kadens and Jessica Katz, have developed a new pilot program to help serve persons living with dementia. It is called the Memory Cafe.
This weekly program is a Durham community pilot to help individuals with mild cognitive impairment or early dementia get to know each other in a non-threatening but stimulating environment, [...]
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