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This webinar highlighted promising practices and contextual and organizational factors related to using linked administrative data to understand the incidence of and risk and protective factors associated with child maltreatment.
Understand the Reasonable Efforts Finding Study design, what it seeks to learn about factors that affect a judge’s reasonable efforts decision, data the study will collect through case file reviews and court observation, the study sample, and its importance to the legal community.
Read the evaluation design report the Fathers and Continuous Learning project, which is testing the use of the Breakthrough Series Collaborative to strengthen engagement of fathers and paternal relatives in the child welfare system
Explore OPRE’s Roadmaps to Building Evidence in Child Welfare, which is a collection of instructional resources about conducting child welfare evaluations for child welfare administrators and evaluators that describes many elements of the evaluation process.
This brief describes the development, validation, and cross jurisdiction replication of a risk prediction model designed to predict foster care placement.
Understand the Reasonable Efforts Finding Study, what it seeks to learn about factors that affect a judge’s reasonable efforts decision, data the study will collect, the study sample, and why it is important to the legal community.
Explore ACF’s State Child Abuse and Neglect (SCAN) Policies Database that describe variations in key aspects of states’ definitions of child maltreatment and policies for reporting, screening, and investigating child abuse and neglect across the 50 states, District of Columbia, and Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
The report explores the intentional and unintentional ways public child welfare agencies contact or receive information about the stability and well-being of children and youth who have exited the foster care system through adoption or guardianship.