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The Bay Area Social Services Consortium (BASSC) is an agency-university-foundation partnership that promotes social service research, training, and policy development to respond to changes in public social services in the San Francisco Bay Area. |
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BASSC is committed to developing a professional and skilled human service workforce as well as implementing promising practices across the San Francisco Bay Area region. It pursues these objectives through two professional training programs: the Executive Development Program, administered by UC Berkeley Extension, and the Bay Area Academy, administered by the School of Social Work at San Francisco State University. | |
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The Executive Development Program (EDP) participants are comprised of upper level managers from social service departments selected by top management. They participate in a training program that is structured to address the challenges of changing organizational environments and to foster better strategies to fulfill client and community needs. During the first ten years of the program (1994-2004) over 200 case studies have been developed by the program participants. These are available for review and downloading by topic area (child welfare, welfare to work, etc.), by county, and by year in the section on Case Studies. |
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The Bay Area Academy (Academy) is a regional child welfare training institution that provides professional development for entry level and middle-management county child welfare staff. This program is operated by San Francisco State University School of Social Work. |
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