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Measuring Success in Child Welfare

National Study of Outcome Measurement in Public Child Welfare Services: 

Results and Recommendations

Measuring Success in Child Welfare provides an introduction to the concepts, practices and products of those seeking to measure child welfare agency performance. You will find for your use:

• Facts about what child welfare agencies are doing nationally.
• Guidelines for effective outcome measurement.
• References for those who are reviewing or implementing their own outcome measurement systems. 
  
  The content of the site:       
• Describes national survey findings of current measures used in public child welfare agencies.
• Provides detailed descriptions of administrative data elements used to measure outcomes in public child welfare agencies.
• Gives detailed descriptions of clinical measures appropriate for use in public child welfare.
• Responds to reported challenges in developing and selecting measures.

The information provided here will benefit:

• Public child welfare administrators

• Private providers of child welfare services

• Child welfare supervisors and workers

• Program evaluators

• Allied professionals

• Advocates and the public at large

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