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Faith-Based Social Services: Measures, Assessments, and Effectiveness provides a conceptual analysis of FBOs (faith-based organizations) that reflects the need to gather detailed studies to assess social service effectiveness while reviewing the crucial issues challenging public policy. The latest empirical research is detailed, including the problems found when comparing secular and faith-based social service providers, their organizational structures, and the types of services offered. Analysis is included of the data from a three-state evaluation of welfare to work programs, a study of four types of faith-based services found in four cities, and an assessment of a church-based program for teenage drop-outs.
What People Are Saying
Bob Wineburg
This LONG OVERDUE volume must be seen for what it is: the start of a 'genome project' for faith-based research. . . . This body of work TAKES A GIANT STEP in making sense out of what heretofore was a big puzzle. It is A MUST READ for anyone wanting to embark on faith-based research, and A NEW GUIDEPOST for all who desire to truly understand the interplay of faith, service, and research. The editors are to be commended and the authors congratulated. (Bob Wineburg, PhD, Jefferson Pilot Excellence Professor, Department of Social Work, UNC Greensboro; Author of A Limited Partnership: The Politics of Religion, Welfare, and Social Service, and Faith-Based Inefficiency:The Follies of Bush's Initiatives)Diana Garland
PROVIDES AN IMPORTANT OVERVIEW of the challenges of evaluating social service outcomes in these settings. . . . Present[s] NEW FRAMEWORKS FOR THINKING about this difficult research AND HELPFUL GUIDANCE from authors who have successfully navigated the complexity. They report on the first ripples of comparative research, which suggest that social services by religiously-affiliated organizations and congregations are no more or less effective than those by other providers. These initial studies need to be followed by much larger and more ambitious studies. Fortunately, we have the guidance of this volume's authors to point out possible paths and hidden stumbling blocks. . . . A MUCH-NEEDED RESOURCE for researchers across the disciplines who are studying the services of religiously-affiliated organizations and congregations. (Diana Garland, MSSW, PhD, Professor and Dean, Baylor University School of Social Work)Harold Dean Trulear
A HEROIC EFFORT TO FOCUS THE CONVERSATION ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF FAITH BASED SOCIAL SERVICE DELIVERY that delivers on both counts. . . . Chapters such a Steven Monsma's 'The Effectiveness of Faith-Based Welfare to Work Programs' and Netting, O'Connor and Yancey's 'Belief Systems in Faith Based Human Service Programs' deftly tackle the issue of the distinct dimensions of faith as a component of service delivery. The editors are clear that they are at the beginning of a complex conversation on evaluation that will require further investigation. With this volume, that conversation is off to a good start. (Harold Dean Trulear, PhD, Associate Professor of Applied Theology, Howard University)Robert M. Franklin
At an historical moment when social policy and the public treasure are increasingly more friendly and available to houses of worship engaged in secular service delivery, Professors Boddie and Cnaan have produced THE VOLUME FOR WHICH WE HAVE BEEN WAITING. This book responds to the fundamental questions of whether faith based social service work effectively and efficiently compared to secular alternatives. These essays written by an all star cast are theoretically sophisticated and data rich. I PREDICT THAT THIS BOOK WILL BECOME THE 'BIBLE' OF FAITH BASED PROGRAM EFFICACY and could be the book that changes the conversation about the faith factor inside the Beltway and across the nation for years to come. (Robert M. Franklin, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Social Ethics, Emory University; Former Program Officer, The Ford Foundation)Product Details
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Table of Contents
Conceptual Analysis
Introduction Ram A. Cnaan Stephanie C. Boddie 3
Setting the Context: Assessing the Effectiveness of Faith-Based Social Services Ram A. Cnaan Stephanie C. Boddie 5
Finding Congregations: Developing Conceptual Clarity in the Study of Faith-Based Social Services Charlene C. McGrew Ram A. Cnaan 19
Detecting and Decomposing the "Faith Factor" in Social-Service Provision and Absorption George M. von Furstenberg 39
Faith-Based Programs and the Role of Empirical Research Bruce A. Thyer 63
Social Service Research and Religion: Thoughts About How to Measure Intervention-Based Impact David A. Zanis Ram A. Cnaan 83
Testing Faith: Improving the Evidence Base on Faith-Based Human Services Robert L. Fischer Judson D. Stelter 105
Emerging Empirical Findings
Introduction Stephanie C. Boddie Ram A. Cnaan 125
How Do They Fit? Assessing the Role of Faith-Based Organizations in Social Service Provision Elizabeth A. Graddy 129
Investigating the Implementation of Charitable Choice Wolfgang Bielefeld 151
The Effectiveness of Faith-Based Welfare-to-Work Programs: A Story of Specialization Stephen V. Monsma 175
A Faith-Based Alternative Youth Education Program: Evaluating a Participatory Research Approach Jill Witmer Sinha 197
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Faith-Based Welfare Agencies: Methodological Challenges and Possibilities Susan E. Grettenberger John P. Bartkowski Steven R. Smith 223
Assessing the Effectiveness of Faith-Based Programs: A Local Network Perspective David Campbell Eric Glunt 241
Belief Systems in Faith-Based Human Service Programs F. Ellen Netting Mary Katherine O'Connor Gaynor Yancey 261
Concluding Remarks: Common Findings and Challenges Stephanie C. Boddie Ram A. Cnaan 287
Index 293