Research for Action

Robert Chaskin is Professor, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago and Chapin Hall Center for Children. Jona Rosenfeld is Gordon Brown Professor (Emeritus), Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Senior Advisor/Head of Unit of Learning from Success, Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute

• 1. Mapping the Terrain ; 2. Researching Family Support and Children's Services Planning in Northern Ireland ; 3. From Fieldwork to Facts to Firearms Control: Research and Advocacy Towards Stricter Firearms Control Legislation in South Africa ; 4. The Development and Use of Data for Child Welfare System Reform ; 5. The Relationship between Research and Practice in Implementing the RAF Method for Quality Assurance in Residential Settings for Children in Israel ; 6. Research-Based Practice Tools to Improve Child Welfare Services in England: Using the Going Home? Practice Tool to Support the Effective Reunification of Families ; 7. Some Lessons Learned?: A Case Study of Research Dissemination to Young People in Care ; 8. Research, Dissemination, and Impact: Issues, Lessons, and Future Directions ; 9. Charting a Course for Fuller Engagement: Toward a Framework for Action

"...ambitious in its scope...The text is very relevant to child welfare researchers and policy students. The cross-cutting themes and lessons and the analysis of researcher roles, relationships, and engagement styles are valuable contributions to the research on cross-sectoral governance, which has up to this point largely ignored child welfare policy as a focus."--Reviewed by Ann Reyes Robbins, University of Southern California, in Journal of Sociology& Social Welfare"Chaskin, Rosenfeld, their contributors, and their constituent research centers (in particular, Chapin Hall Center for Children), have produced a useful, readable, and overall hopeful volume that faithfully recounts some solid beginning efforts at what one hopes will become a more expansive and accessible cross-national conversation on enhancing and improving services for vulnerable children and their families. For this promising early accounting, the reader isin their debt."--Social Service Review