PSU Magazine Winter 1995

Partnership with CSD PortlanJ State and O regon hildren's Services Di vi ion have entered into a research and training parmership aimeJ at improving the deli ve1y of welfa re services to abused and neglected children and their famili es th roughout O regon. "This is an effort t:oward re-profcs– sionalizing the service delivered to families and children," says Jame Ward , dean of PSU's Graduate chool of Social Work. ll1e School will provide advanced education and tra ining through a master's degree for CSD employees and for PSU graduate students interested in public child welfare careers. The Regional Research Institute for Human Services in the School will provide applied research and evaluation for improvement of child welfa re programs. The PSU School of Extended S tuJi es will tra in CSD staff and caseworkers who provide services to familie and children. Foster and SCHWABE, WILLIAMSON & WYAIT is proud to be involved in shaping PSU's future! • Robert D. Dayton Schwabe Attorney Member, PSU Board of Trustees • Linda C. Marshall Schwabe Management Staff PSU Alumni Board of Directors (Chair, Advocates Committee) PORlU\ND OR SEATil..E WA VANCOUVER WA w ASllJNGTON DC 4 PSU Magazine AlTORNEYS AT LAW adoptive parents also will be abl e to rece ive tra ining th rough this program . All component of the partn ership are he ing jo intly admini~tered by C D and P U. Funding fo r the program will total $3 milli on in its first year and is split between new federal money and ex isting mo ni es and staffing from C D and P U . The partnership rece ived $ l.3 milli on in federal foster care money from th e U.S . Department of Hea lth and Human Services to launch th e program. The part:ner·hip's orga ni ze rs say the program will go far beyond improv ing se rvices to children and famili es. It will also imrrovc orport:uniti es for current rate child we lfa re wo rkers who wish to ga in additi onal professional tra ining, direct new soc ial work graduates into public se rvice, and enhance ex isting curriculum in PSU's G raduate School of ocial Work by adding rea l-life cases and workers in the field . New ties in Middle East Po rtland S tate's Middl e East S tudi es Center has rece ived a 273,312, two-year federal grant to develop an academic anJ social ex h ange program with a university in th e Republic of Kyrgyzstan in centra l Asia. Through a United ra tes In fo rma– tion Agency (U IA) Linkage gra nt, PSU is ass isting Osh ra te U ni ver ity in O sh, Kyrgyzstan, to deve lop new program in management and soc ial sc ience. 0 h rate is in the midst of a restructuring peri od fo ll owing the collapse of the ov iet U nio n. Kyrgyzstan , which is bordered by Afgh anistan and C hina, became an independent country in 1991. This fa ll, the president of Osh State Uni ve rsity met with P U administra– tor , fac ulty, and student in Portland. Grant Farr, director of PSU's Middle East S tudi e Center and professor of socio logy, in turn traveled to O sh State to exchange idea and mee t with university offi cials there. During the nex t two years, several PSU faculty member and students will trave l to Kyrgyz tan to ex hange iJeas and offer suggesti ons fo r new academic and cultural programs. Looking at Oregon's prison boot camp program A highl y stru ctured , military style, six-month vo lunteer program fo r non -vio lent ma le and female inmates is th e ·ubj cct of a derail ed eva luati on through th e PSU choo l of U rban and Public A ffa irs. O regon SUMMIT ( uccess U ing Mo ti vat io n, Mora le, Intensity and Trea tment), loca ted at Shutter C reek C orrecti on a l Institution in orth Bend , is the onl y prison boot camp in O regon , The Department of Correcti on ha contracted with PSU' enter for U rban tudi es to compl ete a detailed ana lysi and report, due in March 1995, that covers the program's cost effective– n ess and impact on en ro ll ed inmates. David Blanchard MS '91, Ph.D. '94, a part-time instructor at PSU, will lead the proj ect , working with two under– graduate students. Gary Perlste in, P U professor of Administrati on of Ju ·rice, will provide over ight, and Doris Mackenzi e-a n ati onall y recognized author on boot campus programs-will ass ist on the project. "In the 23 years I've bee n here, " says Perlstein, "this is th e fir t time rhe department h as totall y opened ur its records for us. This is significant not only fo r this project, but a lso for future corrections research and learning." "The correcti ons environment has changed d ramatica ll y. Evaluations of corrections programs are now an integral part of the way we do business," adds S rephen Amos, director of the Dcparrment of Correction ·' Research and Evaluation Unit. "We ·cc this as th e beginning of an excellent partner– ship to be ·ure programs are effective." O regon UMMIT was modeled after a similar program in New York state . At least 18 states were employ ing these hardline disc ipline rehab programs as of 1990. The programs have been a mi xed success so far, says Perl re in . Amo ·ays th e state plans to use the evaluation report to help determine if the boot camp program is succeeding. The O regon Legislature will also u ·e the eva luat ion when ir comidcrs. extending funding fo r rhe program . D