The Social Welfare Coordinating Group (SWCG) prepares, updates, and disseminates high-quality systematic reviews that help people make well-informed decisions about interventions in social welfare, social care, and social justice.
Our objectives
- Produce high-quality systematic reviews on social welfare topics that are relevant for policy and practice.
- Develop and cultivate a diverse international network of individuals who will contribute to and promote the production of Campbell systematic reviews in social welfare.
- Foster collaboration in the production of systematic reviews.
- Develop and maintain an editorial base (i.e., a group of experts who will substantively and methodologically critique draft protocols and reviews).
- Determine whether titles, protocols, and reviews meet Campbell criteria.
- Submit accepted titles, protocols, and reviews for publication in the Campbell Library.
- Provide feedback, support, and technical assistance to review teams.
We use the term "social welfare" in its broadest sense to include a wide range of interventions (programs, policies, and practices) aimed at preventing psychosocial and behavioral problems; improving human functioning, well-being, and living conditions; and treating established conditions and problems. Relevant interventions may target individuals, families, groups, organizations, or communities.
The scope of the SWCG includes but is not limited to:
- Poverty
- Income maintenance
- Labor force participation (e.g., employment training, job placement)
- Child care
- Parent education
- Parent/family support
- Child protection and child welfare
- Immigration
- Refugees and displaced persons
- Human trafficking
- Individual, couple, family, and group therapies
- Skills training (e.g., anger management, problem solving, negotiation)
- Mental health
- Behavioral health
- Substance abuse
- Respite care
- Foster care
- Adoption/guardianship
- Residential treatment
- Hospital care
- Gerontology
- Casework and case management
- Housing
- Social networks
- Advocacy
- Mediation
- Recreation
- Community development
- Organizational development
- Inter-organizational relations
- Low and middle income countries
Co-registration of specific review titles is encouraged.