ABSTRACT

While a variety of disciplines regularly use fidelity monitoring in order to understand a program’s efficacy, few examples of fidelity monitoring exist within the field of child welfare. This study provides an example of a fidelity-monitoring measure used the Critical Ongoing Resource Family Education (CORE) Teen, a training program for prospective and current resource parents of teenagers. The fidelity-monitoring tool provided valuable insights into the strengths and weaknesses of the training program as well as possible explanations for changes (and lack thereof) in participants’ competency levels. While the lack of diverse trainers limits the generalizability of the findings, this tool provides a promising start to fidelity monitoring in the child welfare field.

摘要

虽然各种学科经常使用保真度监控来了解项目的效果，但在儿童福利领域内几乎没有保真度监控的例子。本研究提供了一个使用关键持续资源家庭教育 (CORE) 青少年的保真度监控措施的示例，这是一项针对青少年未来和当前资源父母的培训计划。保真度监控工具为培训计划的优势和劣势提供了宝贵的见解，并为参与者能力水平的变化（和缺乏）提供了可能的解释。虽然缺乏多样化的培训师限制了研究结果的普遍性，但该工具为儿童福利领域的保真度监测提供了一个有希望的开端。