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University of California
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School of Social Welfare
120 Haviland Hall
Berkeley CA 94720-7400
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ABOUT CSSR:
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February 2005
Sept 2004
The Center for Social Services Research, established in 1994, conducts research, policy analysis and program planning, and evaluation directed toward improving the public social services. Housed in the School of Social Welfare at the University of California at Berkeley, the Center responds to the concerns of community. Collaborating with public social service officials, elected policy-makers, community professionals, and consumers of service, it engages in research activities that are directly and immediately practice- and policy-relevant.
At the present time, CSSR oversees six separate research and training units -- the Family Welfare and Poverty Research Group, the Child Welfare Research Center (which encompasses the Performance Indicators / CWS/CMS Reports), the Center for the Advanced Study of Aging Services, the Health Research Group, and the Bay Area Social Services Consortium's Research Response Team, and the Social Investment Research Group.
Each research group is given direction and assistance from a Research Advisory Committee which includes policy makers and providers of service at the state, county and local levels. The advisory committees help develop research agendas from the field and specify the research questions so that that are optimally useful to policy makers and practitioners. Members assist research group faculty and staff in gaining access to data where necessary, and they are instrumental in reviewing the results of research projects to help ensure that analyses and interpretations are relevant and appropriate to the communities they serve.
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