Title IV-E Child Welfare Education Program

Department of Social Work Education

California State Univeristy, Fresno

The Title IV-E Child Welfare program has been implemented in social work programs around the country to prepare undergraduate and graduate students for work in public child welfare.

The purpose of the Child Welfare Social Work Curriculum Development Project of the California Social Work Education Center was to establish new educational objectives for social workers who aid culturally diverse families living in poverty, and publicly supported public child welfare services. Curriculum development in Social Work Education is needed because the field of child welfare is changing rapidly. For example, P.L. 96-272 (1980) established a focus on keeping children in their homes and on permanency planning, in an effort to break the cycle of multiple foster homes for dependent children.

The California Social Work Education Center (CalSWEC) is a partnership between the schools of social work, public human service agencies, and other related professional organizations that facilitates the integration of education and practice to assure effective, culturally competent service delivery and leadership to the people of California.

We offer a Child Welfare Stipend Program for both programs:

Bachelors of Arts in Social Work and Masters in Social Work