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Integrating Child Welfare Outcomes: Enhancing Accountability and Effectiveness

Explore the importance of measuring Child Welfare Outcomes, including safety, well-being, permanence, and family and community indicators. Learn how these data can drive policy, practice, and decision-making for improved services and child well-being.

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Integrating Child Welfare Outcomes: Enhancing Accountability and Effectiveness

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  1. Child Welfare Outcomes Integrating Outcomes into Our Core Business John McDermott May 2009

  2. Measuring CI Outcomes • Why? • Impact of our supports and interventions • Encourage evidence-based decisions • Accountability • Where did we start? • National Outcome Measures • ACYS improved capacity to report NOM • ARM

  3. Evolution of Outcome Based Services • ARM • Community Engagement • Differential Response • Permanency • Parental Involvement • Emphasis on Outcomes • CYFEA • Differential Response • Concurrent Planning • Shortened Timelines • Permanency

  4. Evolution of Outcome Based Services • CWPM • Differential Response • Thorough Assessment/Re-assessment • Parental Involvement • Concurrent Planning • Attention to Timelines • Permanency • OBS • Improve effectiveness of services • Child well-being • Emphasis on Outcomes

  5. Measuring CI Outcomes • What? • ACYS is attempting to report measures that reflect Child Welfare Outcomes Indicators Matrix • Today’s presentation: six indicators

  6. Why measure these outcomes? • North America-wide consultative research by Trocme etal: An Ecological Framework • The same indicators recurred repeatedly and in subsequent work around the world • Consensus across P/Ts on these and their measures • IT Capability

  7. CHILD WELFAREOUTCOME INDICATORS MATRIX DOMAIN INDICATOR 1. Safety 1.1√Recurrence of maltreatment 1.2 √Serious injuries/deaths 2. Well-Being 2.1 √School Performance 2.2 Child Behaviour 3. Permanence 3.1 √Admissions to Care (Out of Home Placement) 3.2 √Moves in Care 3.3 √Permanency Status 4. Family and Community 4.1 √Family moves Support 4.2 Parenting 4.3 √Aboriginal placementmatching

  8. Considerations • How are these data useful? • Implications for policy, practice, management decisions, required inputs to the system • Questions these data raise for further data collection, analysis, interpretation

  9. Recurrence of Service

  10. Return to Family Enhancement versus Child Protection

  11. Admission to Care

  12. Aboriginal Placement Matching

  13. Aboriginal Placement Matching

  14. Moves in Care

  15. Moves in Care

  16. Permanency Status

  17. School Performance

  18. Considerations • How are these data useful? • Implications for policy, practice, management decisions, required inputs to the system • Questions these data raise for further data collection, analysis, interpretation

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