The availability and evaluation of education and training programs for child welfare workers serving migrant and newcomer children and families: A scoping review of the empirical literature Spanning 25-years
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Abstract
• Only four primary studies found within the empirical literature over 25-years. • All studies show training improved outcomes with migrant children and families. • Child welfare needs to be better equipped to respond to migrants and newcomers. • Training needs to attend to issues of citizenship, settlement, and acculturation. The number of migrant children or children of migrant parents continues to grow in the contemporary global world. Interlocking social and structural inequalities contribute to these children and families’ vulnerabilities and risk of future maltreatment. The child welfare system has struggled to provide culturally appropriate service and care to racialized and cultural communities. The purpose of this scoping review is to explore the availability and effectiveness of the available education and training programs developed within the past 25-years for child welfare workers working with migrant and newcomer populations involved in the child welfare system. Arksey and O’Malley’s (2005) framework and the PRISMA-ScR reporting guidelines ( Peters et al., 2020 , Tricco et al., 2018 ) were used to guide the process. The scoping review included: 1) electronic databases search, 2) hand-search of relevant journals, research repositories, and dissertation databases, and 3) reference lists of the studies included in the scoping review. The scoping review included original evaluation research in the English language from January 1, 1997 to December 31, 2022. The scoping review yielded a total of four publications. All of the studies were published between 2010 and 2016 and were conducted in the United States. One study used a qualitative approach, while three studies used a mixed-methods approach. All of the studies reported the training programs led to improved outcomes and a greater understanding of working with migrant and newcomer populations. More research is needed to fill this significant knowledge gap. This scoping review offers some insights and recommendations for future research and practice.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".