Gibbs Award Announced

[Posted on behalf of Aron Shlonsky, Factor-Inwentash Chair in Child Welfare, University of Toronto]]

Campbell Collaboration News

The winners of the Campbell Collaboration’s Leonard E. Gibbs Award for

the finest systematic review published in the area of social welfare in

2008-2009 are Geraldine Macdonald, Professor of Social Work at Queen's

University Belfast, and William Turner, Lecturer at the School for

Policy Studies, University of Bristol. They are awarded the prize for

the review, Treatment Foster Care for improving outcomes in children and

young people.

Dr. Leonard E. Gibbs (1943 to 2008), Professor Emeritus of Social Work

at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, was an internationally

recognized expert in the field of evidence-based practice (EBP) and was

a fervent proponent of EBP in the helping professions. He epitomized

this approach even as he fought his own battle with advanced metastatic

prostate cancer.

As part of his legacy, Len's widow, Betsy McDougall-Gibbs, has

established the Leonard E. Gibbs Award for Outstanding Contribution to

Evidence-Based Practice, through the Campbell Collaboration. Each year,

the Leonard E. Gibbs Fund will honor the winning review team with one

fully paid registration to the Campbell Collaboration Colloquium, where

they will be recognized for their groundbreaking work.

For more information, please go to www.campbellcollaboration.org

[Posted on behalf of Aron Shlonsky, Factor-Inwentash Chair in Child Welfare, University of Toronto]

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