The California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC) is a vital resource for child welfare professionals who want to ensure that the interventions they are using are empirically proven effective. This web site funded and overseen by the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) focuses on specific interventions for a wide variety of topics related to child welfare, including depression, domestic violence, case management, substance abuse. Most importantly, they have an easy to understand rating system as follows:
Well-supported by research evidence
Supported by research evidence
Promising research evidence
Evidence falls to demonstrate effect
Concerning practice
NR. Not able to be rated
What is unique about CEBC is that is focuses on specific interventions used by child welfare practitioners, rather than the wider net of the Campbell and Cochrane Collaborations that focus on many academic disciplines and include policy research as well as research on
specific interventions.
According to the CEBC website, “CDSS selected the Chadwick Center for Children and Families - Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego, in cooperation with the Child and Adolescent Services Research Center (CASRC), to create the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC).”
To visit the CEBC website go to: California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare