The National Quality Improvement Center on the Privatization of Child Welfare Services: A program description

Research on Social Work Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 72-81

  Collins Camargo, Crystal ^a   Ensign, Karl ^b   Flaherty, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b Planning and Learning Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Child welfare privatization; Knowledge development; Public private partnership

Indexed keywords

EID: 36849085893     PISSN: 10497315     EISSN: 15527581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049731507303495     Document Type: Article

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