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Beginning the “never-ending” learning process: Training experiences of newly-hired child welfare workers

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  • Radey, Melissa
  • Stanley, Lauren

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Quality pre-service training for child welfare workers is a priority factor to promote child outcomes in the child welfare system. This study combines two theory of transfer frameworks to consider recently-hired workers' training experiences and their perspectives on the conditions that facilitated meaningful trainings that prepared them for their work.

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  • Radey, Melissa & Stanley, Lauren, 2019. "Beginning the “never-ending” learning process: Training experiences of newly-hired child welfare workers," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 104(C), pages 1-1.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:104:y:2019:i:c:20
    DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.06.013
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