China Academy of Urban Planning and Design

The Department of Urban Planning has entered into a research exchange agreement with China’s leading urban planning agency, the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design (CAUPD). Under this agreement the Department of Urban Planning is hosting ten managers and senior staff from CAUPD this year. These visiting affiliates are attending courses on physical planning and urban design and auditing and participating in other classes offered by the UCLA Department of Urban Planning.

Faculty mentors meet regularly with the affiliates to discuss issues related to their course of study at UCLA. During the Spring quarter, the last quarter of their stay, the affiliates will enroll in a class organized exclusively for them on the Evaluation of Urban Design and Development Projects.

The UCLA Center on Child Welfare

The UCLA Center on Child Welfare, established in 1991 and Title IV-E funded, is an innovative university-agency training collaboration between the UCLA campus and one of the largest child welfare agencies in the nation and world, the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS). The Center's purpose is threefold:

• Training the Center on Child Welfare creates state-of-the-art trainings on best practices for DCFS social workers, managers, and administrators. Read more.
• Education the CCW operates two Master's in social welfare (MSW) specialized student units in DCFS, and oversees graduate curricula and training in public child welfare in the UCLA Department of Social Welfare. Read more.
• Research the Center conducts research on retention of DCFS employees who graduated from MSW programs, and research on adolescent foster youth, permanency, mentoring, and emancipation outcomes. Read more.

The Center on Child Welfare is part of the Inter-University Consortium (IUC), comprised of Schools/Departments of Social Work at six Southern California universities: California State University Dominguez Hills, California State University Long Beach, California State University Los Angeles, California State University Northridge, University of California Los Angeles, and University of Southern California.
      
Administrative offices of the Center on Child Welfare are located in the Department of Social Welfare at UCLA School of Public Affairs Building. The UCLA Center on Child Welfare Training site, is located at the SkyPark Complex in Torrance, California.

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For all information regarding the UCLA Center on Child Welfare, please e-mail the Director, Carole Bender, at bender@publicaffairs.ucla.edu.