Completion rates for CWS Parent Training

["Rick Barth" <rbarth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings. I am still exploring issues regarding parent training 
programs for child welfare clients (voluntary or not) and hope you will 
indulge yet another information request.

I am interested in data--from nearly any source--that will help inform 
my understanding of the completion rates for parents who begin parent 
training that is provided to child welfare clients. I am thinking, here, 
of  parent training that typically is provided at an agency, over a 
fixed number of sessions, and is usually for parents, alone.  (This 
would not include more family and home-based interventions.)

I know that CDC has been funding some very focused research on what 
increases retention, but I am also hoping that some members of the list 
can provide some basic descriptive statistics about what proportion of 
clients who start parent training do complete it.  Certainly, I would 
also welcome additional information that might help raise questions or 
give answers about why they don't complete the parent training, but I 
know that is asking a lot.

Thanks, again, for your help,

Rick Barth
School of Social Work
University of North Carolina, USA
rbarth@xxxxxxx