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Establishing CASA as an evidence-based practice.

Jennifer Lawson¹, Jill Duerr Berrick

¹School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. jennlawson@berkeley.edu

Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work

|July 25, 2013

Summary

This summary is machine-generated.

Current research on the Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) program shows mixed results and methodological flaws. More rigorous studies are needed to determine CASA

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Area of Science:

Child Welfare Research
Evidence-Based Practices
Legal and Social Services Evaluation

Background:

The Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) program provides advocates for children in the child welfare system.
Assessing the program's effectiveness is crucial for informing policy and practice.
Existing research on CASA's impact presents challenges in interpretation.

Purpose of the Study:

To critically evaluate the evidentiary status of the CASA program.
To analyze the methodologies of studies examining CASA effectiveness.
To identify gaps in the current research base.

Main Methods:

Systematic review of existing research findings on the CASA program.
Critical analysis of the methodologies employed in the reviewed studies.
Identification of common methodological weaknesses, such as selection bias.

Main Results:

Research findings regarding CASA's effectiveness are equivocal.
Widespread methodological weaknesses were identified in the current literature.
Insufficient evidence exists to classify CASA as an evidence-based practice.

Conclusions:

The current evidence base does not support establishing CASA as an evidence-based practice.
Methodological limitations, particularly selection bias, hinder definitive conclusions.
Future research should prioritize large randomized controlled trials to assess CASA's impact on child outcomes.