| Abstrakt: |
Federal legislation now authorizes government funding for faithbased initiatives to carry out social welfare service programs. The authors review recent trends in evaluation research on faith-based programs by social workers. The authors discuss specific programmatic outcomes, limitations in faith-based research, trends in faith-based literature, and future research recommendation. We conclude that past research efforts by the social work profession are insufficient in the evaluation of faith-based services. Our contention is that greater research efforts will promote the development of evidence-based practice for faith-based organizations and the social work profession. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
