This presentation, given at the Social Service Workforce and the Practice of Working with Vulnerable Children and Families Symposium, provides an overview of a child welfare curriculum development and training project for social work faculty in Indonesia. The project was convened by Save the Children in partnership with Building Professional Social Work (BPSW), a project of Building Bridges to the Future Foundation, and the US National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections (NRCPFC) at Silberman School of Social Work of Hunter College in New York.
The presentation includes a brief background on the Indonesian context; a process model of developing professional social work in Indonesia and “indigenizing” it, or adapting it to local context; an outline of the context of child welfare before the tsunami; and a review of child welfare reform. The presentation then describes the four phases of the curriculum and training project and the module development involved, as well as the outcomes of the curriculum development. The presentation also reports on the training and its outcomes and highlights lessons learned from the project.
