Department of Social Work NewsRelease

DR. LINDSEY RECEIVES $211,000 STATE CONTRACT

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – Dr. Elizabeth Lindsey, associate professor of social work at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, has received a $211,000 contract from N.C. Division of Social Services to continue evaluating the state’s child welfare training system through 2003.
    Lindsey has been principal investigator on the project since its inception in 1998, in collaboration with Dr. Fasih Ahmed of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical University,  co-principal investigator.
    The training program, which began in 1998 as a mandate by the North Carolina General Assembly, requires child welfare workers to have 72 hours of pre-service training and ongoing in-service training throughout their employment.This program has maintained very high levels of effectiveness from the beginning, possibly because evaluation was integrated into the program from the outset, Lindsey said.
     “That rarely happens,” she said, observing that usually people decide to evaluate a training program after it is well-established and starting to experience problems, which can make it much harder to find and fix the problems.
She and Ahmed will continue gathering data for the state, and also plan to publish their findings in professional journals so others can learn how to evaluate training programs.
    Lindsey joined the faculty of UNCG in 1994, and teaches research methods in the Joint Masters of Social Work Program at UNCG and NC A&T. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Georgia.

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