Who we are
What is Practice and Research Together (PART)?
PART is a knowledge translation model that promotes the concept of evidence-informed practice in child welfare.
Fundamentals of the program design include:
- Learning Events: Large scale conferences with distinguished academics and policy-makers on significant child welfare related topics.
- Webinars: Short web-based seminars presented by high level academics, who distil and disseminate their practice-relevant research findings directly to child welfare practitioners.
- PARTicles: Concise literature reviews on relevant and important child welfare topics. These PARTicles can be located on our PARTicle board.
- Evidence Informed Practice (EIP) Toolkits: These tool kits are developed for and by child welfare practitioners. The first topic for this toolkit is: Linking Research to Child Welfare Supervision: A Toolkit for supervisors.
- Link PARTners (LP's) are agency representatives who work with PART to create organizational and systemic change related to evidence informed practice.
- Website portal that creates a synergy and interconnectedness between member agencies.
What PART is not...
The intent of the project is not to conduct research but rather to provide member agencies with information and knowledge translation that will assist child welfare practitioners to use evidence-informed practice in the hopes of improving outcomes. PART creates organizational and systemic change by bridging the gap that currently exists between child welfare practitioners and researchers. The program is not merely a website portal, but rather a structure that provides member agencies with hands-on support and tools to assist with the integration and utilization of evidence-informed practice.
PART member agencies are required to pay a yearly membership fee [member agencies 3.2] as outlined in the membership fee schedule.