COPP’s CABHP partners with Department of Economic Security to improve child welfare

Twelve assistant program managers completed a yearlong program of study and were certified on June 28 in a ceremony on ASU's Downtown Phoenix campus. They represent the first cohort of new leaders who graduated from the ASU Child Welfare Leadership Academy.

In the midst of budget cuts, hiring freezes and skyrocketing caseloads, a new partnership between ASU’s Center for Applied Behavioral Health Policy and the Arizona Department of Economic Security is providing optimism and excitement among assistant program managers within the Division of Children Youth and Families.

The new partnership already is seeing improvements in child welfare with an eye towards curbing abuse and neglect.

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