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Susan Smith and Lisa Tuttle Casey Family Programs July 29, 2011

Indicating Success in Public Child Welfare Child Outcomes, System Performance and the CFSR Process. Susan Smith and Lisa Tuttle Casey Family Programs July 29, 2011. Monitoring the Vision: Casey’s Dashboard . Goal : Every child deserves a safe, permanent home

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Susan Smith and Lisa Tuttle Casey Family Programs July 29, 2011

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  1. Indicating Success in Public Child Welfare Child Outcomes, System Performance and the CFSR Process Susan Smith and Lisa Tuttle Casey Family Programs July 29, 2011

  2. Monitoring the Vision:Casey’s Dashboard • Goal: Every child deserves a safe, permanent home • Vision: Reduce the children in the United States in foster care in half by the year 2020 • In 2005 there were ½ million children; moving to ¼ million by 2020 • Monitor:Key performance indicators at a national level • Evaluate:Work and efforts at the state and county level

  3. Long term trends in entries & exits Data notes: For years before 2000, data are averaged across a two-year period. Data for 1995 and before should not be compared to data from 1996 and beyond. Data on entries and exits not available for 1995-1997. Data from 1982-1989 retrieved from the American Public Welfare Association/Voluntary Cooperative Information System (VCIS). Data from 1990-1994 based on the VCIS and retrieved from the Children’s Bureau website. Data from 1995-1998 retrieved from CWLA/NDAS. Data from 1999-20010 based on AFCARS.

  4. Trends In Out-of-Home Care: Slides prepared by Data Advocacy, 7/25/11 Data source: AFCARS

  5. National Entry Rates, FY09 - improved overall entry rate Slides prepared by Data Advocacy, 7/25/11 Data source: AFCARS

  6. National Foster Care Trends

  7. U.S. Foster Care Systemhighly simplified a bunch of stuff happens CHILD IN CHILD OUT But is the child safe? (Whether in foster care or at home) And what is the child’s level of well-being? *adapted from Lyle, G. L., & Barker, M.A. (1998) Patterns & Spells: New approaches to conceptualizing children’s out of home placement experiences. Chicago: American Evaluation Association Annual Conference

  8. BackgroundChild and Family Services Reviews (CFSR) • Goal: Improve the performance of state child welfare systems • Timeline: 1994 Federal government mandate to review and evaluate state foster care and adoption services • Children’s Bureau of the Administration on Children and Families (ACF) administers the process • Purpose of CFSRs: To ensure states are in “substantial conformity” with Titles IV-B and IV-E Federal Funding, within the domains of safety, permanence, and well-being.

  9. Outcome Measures:What we have What we need valid reliable comprehensible = a good measure

  10. Outcome Measures Data should be gathered and analyzed in a manner that facilitates understanding of how one area of practice affects another Acknowledgement to Emily Putnam-Hornstein and Barbara Needell, University of California, Berkeley, for the slide content.

  11. Proposed Measures – outcome measures required

  12. Additional Measures – optional

  13. Proposed Measuresprocess measures - required Worker-Child Visits Timeliness of Investigations

  14. Proposed Measures well-being measures

  15. Data-sharing / interoperability [near-term goal]

  16. Outcome Measures…. family preservation Measures of primary and secondary prevention services?

  17. Data-sharing / Interoperability • Longer-term vision

  18. National Dashboard

  19. Efforts, Approaches, Outcomes

  20. State Comparisons

  21. State Detail in National View

  22. State and County Level

  23. Interactive Dashboard by State

  24. Casey Direct Service Targets

  25. Office numbers and targets

  26. Conclusions • Child welfare needs to be considered an integrated system of child safety and well-being, not a foster care program • The Federal role is to assure accountability and compliance, which includes child safety • Innovations in states and agencies lead the way in integrating and translating data into information about what works

  27. Questions?

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