Advocacy Toolkit for Title IV-E Training

Contacting Your Members of Congress

NASW/ANSWER Contact for Grassroots Activities:
Dina Zarrella
Senior Field Organizer
dzarrella@naswdc.org
(202) 336-8218

• Write a Letter Urging your Representative & Senators to Maintain the Title IV-E Training Program
  Scroll down to Child Welfare: Title IV-E Training
• Set Up Meetings with your Members of Congress
• Invite your Members of Congress to Your Program for a Site Visit

Tips for Setting Up a Site Visit

• Participant Roles
• Logistics
• Lessons Learned

National Materials

• [Making] The Case for Retaining the Title IV-E Training Program
• Talking Points on the Value of Title IV-E Training Program
• Fact Sheet on the Title IV-E Training Program
• Fast Facts on the Child Welfare Workforce
• Research on the Child Welfare Workforce and Title IV-E Training
• NASW’s Child Welfare Report: Child Welfare Specialty Practice Section Members Describe Their Experiences in Child Welfare (pdf)
• NASW Congressional Testimony on Reprofessionalizing the Child Welfare Workforce (pdf)

State and Local Materials

The materials below detail the benefits of state and local Title IV-E training programs and were developed by social work educators and others for use with their Members of Congress.

Please submit additional materials you develop and are willing to post to Dina Zarrella at dzarrella@naswdc.org

California

Contact: Chris Mathias, Executive Director California Social Work Education Consortium, University of California, Berkeley, California cmathias@uclink.berkeley.edu 510-642-9272

• Facts & Figures

Kansas

Contact: Michelle Levy, Coordinator, Kansas Child Welfare Scholars Programs, University of Kansas School of Social Welfare, Lawrence, KS, mlevy@ku.edu, (785) 864-2291

• Facts & Figures
• Personal Story - Andrina
• Personal Story - Kari

Minnesota

Contact: Marcie Jefferys, Executive Director, Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, mjeffery@che.umn.edu, (612) 624-2279

• Facts & Figures
• Personal Stories: Title IV-E Alumni

Contact: Dr. Ruth A. Charles, Professor, Winona State University, Winona, Minnesota, rcharles@winona.edu, (507) 457-5674

• Fact Sheet on BSW Social Work Students and IV-E Funding

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