Child Welfare Information Gateway's Product Development Survey

Product Development Survey

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT OF 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13) The purpose of this information collection is to gather feedback on capacity building products and services to better meet the needs of child welfare professionals. Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average five minutes per respondent, including the time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and reviewing the collection of information. This is a voluntary collection of information. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information subject to the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. The control number for this project is 0970-0401. The control number expires on 6/30/2024. If you have any comments on this collection of information, please contact Lyscha Marcynyszyn, Child Welfare Information Gateway, by e-mail at lyscha.marcynyszyn@icf.com.

Please take three minutes to answer the questions below. Your input will help strengthen Child Welfare Information Gateway publications. Your participation in this survey is voluntary, and your responses will be privately shared with Child Welfare Information Gateway staff and the Children’s Bureau to provide useful, informative, and relevant resources in the future. You may exit the survey at any time and are free to decline to answer any question. There are no foreseeable risks and no direct benefits from participating in this survey. Proceeding with the survey is an indication of your consent. If you have any questions or require accessibility assistance with this survey, please contact Child Welfare Information Gateway staff by email at info@childwelfare.gov or by telephone at 800.394.3366. Thank you for helping us help you. 

1. Before starting the survey, please indicate the language in which you would like to proceed./Antes de comenzar la encuesta, por favor indique el idioma en el que desea proceder. *This is a required Question./Esta es una pregunta requerida.

• English

• Español

2. Please indicate why you are reading or reviewing an Information Gateway publication.

• To inform my professional work

• As a student, for educational purposes

• Looking for information for personal use as a family member (e.g., relative/kin caregiver, adoptive parent, foster parent, biological/birth parent)

• Other (Please explain in the textbox below.) _________________________________

3. How did you find out about this publication? 

• Search engine (e.g., Google, Yahoo)

• Email from Information Gateway or the Children's Bureau

• Email from another organization

• Browsing the Information Gateway website

• Browsing another organization's website

• Social media posts from Information Gateway

• Social media posts from families or friends (e.g., Facebook, Twitter)

• A family or friend told me about it

• A social worker shared it with me

• Hardcopy found from an organization

• Hardcopy received in the mail

• Webinar/Podcast

• Other (Please describe in the textbox below.) ____________________________________

2b. Please provide the specific source to the question above. __________________________________

3. How useful is the information in this publication?

• Very useful

• Useful

• Somewhat useful

• Not useful

4. Please provide more detail about your response to the question above.

________________________________

5. What do you think about the amount of information included in this publication?

• There is too much information.

• There is just the right amount of information.

• There is not enough information.

6. Please indicate how Information Gateway can make the content of our publications more useful. (Select all that apply.) 

• Include more space within the layout of these publications to take notes

• Include more graphics (e.g., graphs, charts, infographics)

• Include more pictures

• I am not sure.

• Other (Please describe in the textbox below.) __________________________________________________

6a. How do you intend to use this publication? (Select all that apply.)

• Increase my knowledge

• Inform my attitudes

• Support collaborative, community-based prevention efforts

• Share with families and/or clients (in-person or virtually)

• Share with professionals or colleagues

• Support public awareness or advocacy efforts

• Share in a formal training environment (in-person or virtually)

• Support practice improvement and/or sustain good practice

• Implement, sustain, or improve programs

• Support policy change and/or sustain good policies

• Conduct research or evaluation

• Grant writing/fundraising

• Enhance my partnerships with parents, caregivers, and youth

• Inform collaborations between child welfare professionals and communities and/or other partners

• To find information about how to pursue a child welfare career

• Support my own professional development

• Personal use

• I don't know how I intend to use the information and resources in this publication.

• I have not used nor intend to use the information and resources in this publication.

• Other (Please describe in the textbox below.) __________________________________________________

6b. Do you need a Spanish version of this publication?

• Yes

• No

• Maybe

6a. How do you intend to use this publication? (Select all that apply.)

• Class assignment

• Research (Please describe in the textbox below.) _______________

• Internship/practicum (Please describe in the textbox below.) _______________

• To find information about how to pursue a child welfare career

• I don't know how I intend to use the information and resources in this publication.

• I have not used nor intend to use the information and resources in this publication.

• Other (Please describe in the textbox below.) __________________________________________________

6a. How do you intend to use this publication? (Select all that apply.)

• Increase my knowledge

• Inform my attitudes

• Share the information with others (Please explain who you would share this information within the textbox below.) __________________________________

• Support public awareness or advocacy efforts

• To find information about how to pursue a child welfare career

• I don't know how I intend to use the information and resources in this publication.

• I have not used nor intend to use the information and resources in this publication.

• Other (Please describe in the textbox below.) ________________________

7. If you could improve one thing about this publication, what would it be? ____________________________________

8. Please share any additional comments you have. ______________________________

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