RE: Completion rates for CWS Parent Training

["George Bryan" <george.bryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rick,

How hard do you want me to work?  I have data on center based parenting
classes for child welfare referred clients (primarily for abuse and neglect
of their children) showing total number who attended at least one of 12
classes; how many regularly attended; and how many completed the class by
attending at least 10 out of the 12 classes.  In addition I have pre and
post data on these clients using the CAP Inventory.  I potentially have this
data for about 9 sessions (12 classes each) for 10 years.  But - like I say
- how hard do you want me to work?

George

George Bryan 
Executive Director Exchange SCAN
Winston-Salem, N.C.
336.748.9028

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Barth [mailto:rbarth@email.unc.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 1:08 PM
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
Subject: Completion rates for CWS Parent Training

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@unc.edu