The C-CFSR or Some of My Best Friends are Outcome Measures National Resource Center for Child Welfare Data and Technology 8th National Child Welfare Data Conference July 20, 2005 Barbara Needell, MSW, PhD Center for Social Services Research University of California at Berkeley The Performance Indicators Project is funded by the California Department of Social Services and the Stuart Foundation
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The C-CFSR or
Some of My Best Friends are Outcome Measures
National Resource Center for Child Welfare Data and Technology
8th National Child Welfare Data Conference July 20, 2005
Barbara Needell, MSW, PhD
Center for Social Services Research
University of California at Berkeley
The Performance Indicators Project is funded by the
California Department of Social Services and the Stuart Foundation
Measuring Child Welfare Outcomes
Child In Child OutA bunch of stuff happens
*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
Government Performance Results Act of 1993 (GPRA)
Annual Outcomes Report to Congress mandated by Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) of 1997
Statewide Data Indicators in Child and Family Services Reviews -- a subset of the Annual Outcomes—from National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) and Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS)
California Child Welfare System Improvement and Accountability Act (AB636) became law in 2001 and went into effect in January 2004
Outcomes, outcomes, everywhere
Quarterly distribution of county specific outcome
indicators data• Includes national standards (from AFCARS),
but also draws heavily on previous work done by CWDA and UCB using entry cohort measures
• Mirrors Family to Family Outcomes
• Retains key process measures (e.g., child visits, time to investigation)
Statewide Data Indicators from
AFCARS Stability Of Foster Care
Placement
Length Of Time To Reunification
Foster Care Re-entries
Length Of Time To Adoption
Why do we use entry cohort measures in addition
to measures from AFCARS?
Who is in AFCARS?
AFCARS contains data on children in foster care during a federal fiscal year
Each reporting period’s submission is a separate dataset. Reporting periods are linked together by the Children’s Bureau to form the annual databases. ANNUAL DATABASES ARE NOT LINKED TO EACH OTHER.
11/02 11/03 11/04
Data snapshots can be biased
Source: Aron Shlonsky, University of Toronto (formerly at CSSR)
California EXAMPLE: Age of Foster Children
(2003 first entries, 2003 exits, July 1 2004 caseload)(2003 first entries, 2003 exits, July 1 2004 caseload)
22
31
2220
54
30
2422
19
5
24 24
32
16
0
10
20
30
40
50
<1 1-5 6-10 11-15 16+
Age in Years
Per
cen
t
Entries
Exits
Point in Time
Federal—Of all children who were adopted during the year, what % had been in care for less than 24 months?(national standard = 32%)
State enriched—Of all children entering care for the first time, what % are adopted in less than 24 months? (we do not have state standards)