Practice and Research for Social Service Excellence

Introduction ｜ Conference ｜ Workshop ｜ Keynote Speaker & Trainer

Introduction

The social service sector is dedicated to the pursuit of service excellence. To stimulate exchange and learning among NGO practitioners and to promote service development and innovation, the Council and the ExCEL3 project* is going to organize a conference and a workshop this year bringing together overseas and local wisdom on evidence-based practice (EBP) for service excellence.

*This ExCEL3 project is a HKU project supported by the Hong Kong Jockey Club which aims to build the capacity of non-government organizations and empower civil society in Hong Kong as well as build research and teaching capacity within The Hong Kong University.

Conference 11th October 2012, Thursday
Workshop 12th October 2012, Friday

Conference

Evidence-based Practice and the Search for Intervention Effectiveness: Why Context Matters?

Objective

• Promote service excellence through practice-based research to demonstrate and articulate the values and impacts of social services
• Introduce latest research findings and related information or resources that facilitate practice research and social service development
• Establish a regular networking platform for workers and social service NGOs to share their experience in practice research

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Workshop

Objectives

• To introduce participants to the principles, methods, limitations and uses of practice-based research methods such as Clinical Data Mining(CDM) developed by the trainer.
• To describe the way CDM has been employed in practitioner-initiated studies conducted in a variety of social work settings
• To describe where CDM “fits” in the broader context of the Evidence-based Practice and Practice-based Research “movements” in social work
• To encourage participants to conceptualize and conduct their own practice research studies
• To empower participants as contributors to social work knowledge

Content

• Share evidence from Clinical data mining (CDM) studies conducted in Australia, Hong Kong, Israel and the United States demonstrating the importance of psycho-social differences in assessing effectiveness
• CDM studies conducted in Hong Kong will be highlighted.
• In class discussion to facilitate participants to conceptualize and conduct their own CDM studies

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Keynote Speaker & Trainer

Prof Irwin Esptein Helen Rehr Professor of Applied Social Work Research City University of New Work Prof Irwin Epstein has his MSW and his Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University where he specialized in the sociology of professions, organizational sociology and evaluation research methods. A former Fulbright senior lecturer at the University of Wales, he currently holds the Helen Rehr Chair in Applied Social Work Research at the Silberman School of Social Work in Hunter College and teaches in the PhD Program of the City University of New York. Prof. Epstein has conducted practice-based research workshops at universities and social agencies in the United States, Australia, Finland, Hong Kong, Israel, New Zealand, Singapore and the United Kingdom. His most recent books are: Clinical Data-Mining: Integrating Practice and Research, Oxford University Press (2010); Clinical Data-Mining in an Allied Health Organization, co-edited with R. Giles and A. Vertigan,University of Sydney Press (2011); and Practice-based Research in Social Work: A Guide for Reluctant Researchers, co-authored with S.J. Dodd, Routledge Press (2012). Also, he likes practitioners.

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