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SOAR Team Participates in Evidence Based Practice
Conference
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The Service Outcomes Action Research (SOAR)
team participated in a conference on “Involving
Practitioners in Gathering Evidence about
Their Own Practices” on November 2, 2007
in the Life Sciences Building on the uptown
campus. The conference was co-sponsored
by the SOAR partner agencies, St. Anne Institute
and LaSalle School, and the New York State
Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies
(COFCCA). The conference was attended by
100 people from a variety of child and family
service agencies in the Capital Region,
as well as members of the UAlbany community,
representatives from the county social service
departments, representatives from COFCCA,
and representatives from the New York State
Office of Children and Family Services. |
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SOAR research team is headed by David Duffee,
professor of Criminal Justice, and includes
Assistant Professors Dana Peterson and Megan
Kurlychek in Criminal Justice, Associate
Professor Brenda Smith and Assistant Professor
Heather Larkin from the School of Social
Welfare, and Assistant Professor Amanda
Nickerson from the School of Education.
SOAR has recently completed a pilot study
of youths going through residential treatment
at LaSalle and St. Anne. Findings from this
study provided the material to illustrate
how practitioners can be involved in developing
evidence based practices (EBP) that are
based on evidence about their own practice.
This form of EBP is known as a “developmental
approach,” an alternative to the more well
known “research and disseminate” approach
to EBP. It is the goal of SOAR to develop
the program theory and measurement plan
with which to guide the recording of client
progress in all St. Anne and LaSalle programs. |
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the conference, Duffee, Peterson, and Smith,
and criminal justice doctoral students Cam
Steinke, Yufan Huang, and Aaron Scherer
made presentations on the developmental
process, residential outcomes, the causes
of client engagement, and the effects of
engagement on service provision and outcomes.
Joanne Schneider and Nicolette Davis, both
of St. Anne Institute, and Austin Byrnes,
Bonnie Slater, and Mark Silverbush of LaSalle
School responded to the presentations and
led spirited discussion with members of
the audience. Agency Executive Directors
Bill Wolff of LaSalle and Rick Riccio of
St. Anne, and Jim Purcell, executive director
of COFCCA, opened and closed the conference
emphasizing the value to the state of both
SOAR findings and the participatory, developmental
process that SOAR has established to involve
researchers and practitioners together in
the improvement of youth and family services. |
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School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, SUNY
135 Western Avenue
Albany, NY 12222 USA
Phone: (518) 442 - 5214 • Fax: (518) 442 - 5212 |
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