About this Special Issue:

-Improving the Use and Usefulness of Research in Child Welfare
--From the Editor

-Introduction
--Joe Bock

-Special Foreword: Making Research Work in Child Welfare: Overcoming Challenges
--Kimberly DuMont and Christine James-Brown

-Strategies to Improve the Use and Usefulness of Research in Child Welfare
--Lydia F. Killos, Catherine Roller White, Peter J. Pecora, Erin Maher, Kirk O’Brien, Dave Danielson, Kimberly DuMont, Fred Wulczyn, Bryan Samuels and Clare Anderson

-Innovation and the Use of Research Evidence in Youth-Serving Systems: A Mixed-Methods Study
--Lawrence A. Palinkas, Qiaobing Wu, Dahlia Fuentes, Megan Finno-Velasquez, Ian W. Holloway, Antonio Garcia and Patricia Chamberlain

-From a Provider’s Perspective: Integrating Evidence-Based Practice into the Culture of a Social Service Organization
--Miranda Yates, Jennifer Nix, Jennifer Schurer Coldiron and Laurie Williams

-Selecting an Evidence-Based Practice in Child Welfare: Challenges and Steps to Identifying a Good Fit
--Jared Martin, Cambria Rose Walsh and Jennifer Rolls Reutz

-Co-Creating the Conditions to Sustain the Use of Research Evidence in Public Child Welfare
--Allison Metz and Leah Bartley

-Research Evidence Use in the Child Welfare System
--Fred Wulczyn, Lily Alpert, Kerry Monahan-Price, Scott Huhr, Lawrence A. Palinkas and Laura Pinsoneault

Child Welfare Journal, Vol. 94 #2, 2016 Special Issue: Research Evidence (1 of 2)