| Partnership for Sustainable Change | Research indicates that change is not sustainable when we do not meaningfully engage those most impacted by a change (even … | Change Implementation, Communication, Community Engagement, Data-Driven Decision Making, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, System Reform | Curricula/Training Material, eLearning Module, NCWWI-Product | 2021 |
| COVID-19 Impact on Current and Former Foster Youth | This tableau provides state-by-state data of housing, employment, financial, and food-related issues during COVID-19 for former foster youth. | Change Implementation, Data-Driven Decision Making | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2021 |
| Think of Us | This organization is dedicated to transforming the child welfare system to center lived experiences. They operate as a research and … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Continuous Quality Improvement, Cultural Responsiveness, Data-Driven Decision Making, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Policy Impact, Prevention/Early Intervention, System Reform, Trauma-informed Practice | Website | 2023 |
| Human Centered Innovation for Intergenerational Impact (itotheN) | itotheN is an international development consulting organization that focuses on research, thought leadership, strategic partnerships, and science-informed solutions to emphasize … | Data-Driven Decision Making, Trauma-informed Practice | Report/Paper | 2022 |
| Poor Individual Risk Classification from Adverse Childhood Experiences Screening | In this article, Meehan et al. discuss the utility of ACEs screening for population level impacts of ACEs in the … | Data-Driven Decision Making, Trauma-informed Practice | Report/Paper | 2021 |
| What Works Cities Certification | The What Works Cities is a certification that city governments can receive for making strides toward improving quality of life … | Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Continuous Quality Improvement, Data-Driven Decision Making, Evidence-Based Practice | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2023 |
| What is Community Engaged Research (CER)? | Community engaged research is a process that incorporates input from people who the research outcomes will impact and involves such … | Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Data-Driven Decision Making, Family-Centered Practice, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Organizational Culture and Climate, Practice Supports | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2023 |
| When Children are Not Safe in Out-of-Home Care | This project will be the first to use national data to take a comprehensive look at the incidence of child … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Overview/Summary | 2023 |
| New Tool to Assess Survey Data for Racial Bias | This tool provides a clear, systematic method for researchers to determine whether survey data they plan to analyze were collected … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Continuous Quality Improvement, Cultural Responsiveness, Data-Driven Decision Making, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2021 |
| The Data Equity Framework | The Data Equity Framework is a systematic process that provides you with a set of tools, checklists, and practices that … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Data-Driven Decision Making, Education/Professional Development, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Training | Curricula/Training Material | 2021 |
| 2022 Signature Report, Investing in Equity: Sustaining hope for children and families | Casey Family Programs recognizes that the safety and well-being of children must be seen in the context of their families, … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Continuous Quality Improvement, Cultural Responsiveness, Data-Driven Decision Making, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Vision, Mission, and Values | Report | 2022 |
| Advancing Racial Equity in Child Welfare: Child Welfare Virtual Expo (CWVE) 2021 | Explore strategies to advance racial equity in child welfare presented by families and youth with lived expertise and other national … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, Data-Driven Decision Making, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Organizational Culture and Climate, System Reform, Workforce Development Planning | Overview/Summary, Reference/Resource List | 2021 |
| Measuring Child Welfare Workers Physiological Stress: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This study explores physiological stress among child welfare professionals before and after the removal of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions in June … | Burnout, Data-Driven Decision Making, Education/Professional Development, Organizational Culture and Climate, Policy Impact, Retention, Trauma-informed Practice, Work Conditions and Benefits | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2023 |
| The Impact of Turnover on Families Involved in Child Welfare | This brief consists of thirty resources divided into three sections (Impact, Community Voice, and Systems Transformation) that examine the impact … | Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Data-Driven Decision Making, Policy Impact, System Reform, Turnover, Workforce Development Planning | NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2023 |
| Kids Count Data Center | A project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation and a premier source of data on children and families. Each year, … | Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Data-Driven Decision Making, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity | Website | 2022 |
| Family First Toolkit Part 3: Evaluating & Improving Quality | The tools in this kit align with the second phase of Family First Implementation: evaluating and improving quality. These tools … | Change Implementation, Continuous Quality Improvement, Data-Driven Decision Making, Evidence-Based Practice, Family-Centered Practice, Policy Impact, Practice Supports, Prevention/Early Intervention, System Reform | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Elevating Culturally Specific Evidence-Based Practices | This brief provides an overview of ten culturally specific programs and two culturally responsive interventions, the evidence for each, and … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Community Engagement, Cultural Responsiveness, Data-Driven Decision Making, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Practice Supports, Tribal Child Welfare | Report/Paper | 2021 |
| Methods and Emerging Strategies to Engage People with Lived Experience: Improving Federal Research, Policy, and Practice | This brief identifies lessons learned and key considerations from a range of methods for engaging individuals with lived experience to … | Community Engagement, Data-Driven Decision Making, Family-Centered Practice, Policy Impact, Practice Supports, System Reform | Report/Paper | 2021 |
| Connecting HR and Child Welfare Data | Child welfare and human resources (HR) data need to be connected to answer important workforce questions. This video highlights some … | Change Implementation, Continuous Quality Improvement, Data-Driven Decision Making, Retention, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | Video | |
| The Challenge of Measuring Turnover in Child Welfare | To address the challenge of turnover in child welfare it is important to understand why people leave, when they leave, … | Data-Driven Decision Making, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | Video | |
| Untapped Potential for Child Welfare Administrative Data | Although a lot of data are captured through child welfare management information systems, there is much we still need to … | Data-Driven Decision Making, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | Overview/Summary | 2021 |
| Worker Turnover is a Persistent Child Welfare Challenge – So is Measuring It | The QIC-WD team has spent five years working with public child welfare agencies to implement and study efforts to address … | Data-Driven Decision Making, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | Overview/Summary | 2022 |
| How Can Public Child Welfare Agencies Get and Keep a Great Workforce? | The following tips were compiled based on the experience of QIC-WD sites. They are intended to help child welfare administrators, … | Data-Driven Decision Making, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | Overview/Summary | 2021 |
| How Can Child Welfare Agencies Leverage Data to Address Important Workforce Questions? | Child welfare agencies experience workforce turnover (14-20% annually) that can be costly and result in poorer outcomes for children and … | Data-Driven Decision Making, Turnover, Work Conditions and Benefits | Overview/Summary | 2021 |
| AFCARS Reports | The Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) collects case-level information on all children in foster care and … | Change Implementation, Data-Driven Decision Making, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity | Report/Paper, Website | 2022 |
| Overrepresentation of Black Children in Child Welfare: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This document summarizes a systematic review that confirmed racial disparities and overrepresentation of Black youth, ages 10-17, involved with the … | Data-Driven Decision Making, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, System Reform | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product, Overview/Summary | 2022 |
| Leadership Academy Evaluation Guide | This guide provides an overview of evaluation activities and resources that a state, county, tribal, or private child welfare agency … | Change Implementation, Continuous Quality Improvement, Data-Driven Decision Making, Leadership, Workforce Development Planning | NCWWI-Product, Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| Learning, Leading, Changing: Advancing Workplace Equity | This learning exchange, held on April 19, 2022, focused on how participants can advance workplace equity in child welfare. Panelists … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Communication, Data-Driven Decision Making, Education/Professional Development, Inclusivity/Racial Equity, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Climate, Retention, University Partnerships, Workforce Development Planning | NCWWI-Product, Webinar/Presentation | 2022 |
| Calculating Turnover | In this video, Megan Paul, QIC-WD Workforce Team Lead, discusses how to calculate turnover in a child welfare agency. | Change Implementation, Data-Driven Decision Making, Retention, Workforce Development Planning | Video | 2017 |
| Advancing Equity and Inclusion Through the Child and Family Services Reviews | This document provides guidelines and suggestions for how to integrate a focus on equity and inclusion into the stages and … | Advancing Racial Equity, Change Implementation, Continuous Quality Improvement, Data-Driven Decision Making, Disproportionality & Disparities, Inclusivity/Racial Equity | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2022 |
| The Evidence Decision-Makers Want | The Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) works to promote the use of evidence in decision-making by leaders … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Overview/Summary | 2019 |
| Tracking and Using Implementation and Outcome Data (W/Tip Sheet) | This document shares important best practices in building capacity to track and use data for practice model decision making. | Data-Driven Decision Making | Overview/Summary | 2016 |
| Use of Research Evidence: Building Two-Way Streets | This video challenges the traditional paradigm of moving from “research to practice,” suggesting that researchers and evaluators need to think … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Video | 2014 |
| Using Data to Measure Performance: A new framework for assessing the effectiveness of home visiting | This report provides information to support state and local managers in collecting, analyzing, and using data to gain a clear … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Report/Paper | 2015 |
| Using Data: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This document highlights the findings of a study identifying the organizational factors that influence data use among child welfare employees in … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product | 2016 |
| Using Integrated Data Systems to Improve Child Welfare Outcomes | This document highlights the use of integrated data systems by Wisconsin and Washington to evaluate and understand how child support … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Report/Paper | 2017 |
| What are Predictive Analytics in Child Welfare? | This Prezi presentation defines predictive analytics, provides examples of how to use existing data sets in order to determine patterns … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Webinar/Presentation | 2014 |
| Planning for Your Program’s Child Welfare Data System | This two-page resource offers concise guiding questions for programs to consider as they develop or enhance a data system. Data … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Overview/Summary | 2018 |
| Predictive Analytics and Child Protection: Constraints and Opportunities | This webinar discusses increasing efforts to leverage predictive analytics for better decision making in child protection. It reviews past experiences, … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Webinar/Presentation | 2015 |
| Sharing Data for Better Results: A Guide to Building Integrated Data Systems Compatible with Federal Privacy Laws | This toolkit helps agency leaders and staff use integrated data to improve city services, and provides information to find the … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2014 |
| Taking Action: Keys to Using Data & Information | | Data-Driven Decision Making | Overview/Summary | 2010 |
| The Power of Data for Learning and Changing | This is the story of 3 graduate students from the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare who were able to … | Data-Driven Decision Making | NCWWI-Product, Podcast | 2018 |
| Three Examples of Predictive Analytics in Child Protection | This webinar discusses how predictive analytics operates in the real world and the implications it has for child protective services. … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Webinar/Presentation | 2015 |
| Mind the Gap #5: Transforming Child Welfare Decision-making through Modern Technology & Data Analytics | This webinar explores how child welfare organizations can leverage modern technology, data and information to support and transform frontline child … | Data-Driven Decision Making | NCWWI-Product, Webinar/Presentation | 2015 |
| National Data Archive on Child Abuse & Neglect | This website, for The National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN), promotes scholarly exchange among researchers in the … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Website | 2019 |
| Navigating Rough Waters: Lessons Learned & Challenges to Avoid When Planning a Tribal Child Welfare Data System | When programs journey through the river of data, knowing how to navigate rough waters and overcome challenges can make a … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Overview/Summary | 2018 |
| New Jersey Fellows: Building Capacity in “Managing by Data” to Improve Leadership, Frontline Practice & Case Outcomes | This webinar showcases an innovative program at the New Jersey Department of Children and Families (NJ DCF) to build capacity … | Data-Driven Decision Making, Leadership | NCWWI-Product, Webinar/Presentation | 2012 |
| New Jersey Fellows: Building Capacity in “Managing by Data” to Improve Leadership, Frontline Practice & Case Outcomes (1-page Summary) | This document summarizes a NCWWI webinar that showcases an innovative program to build capacity in “managing by data” to support … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product | 2012 |
| Get the Data, Share the Data, Use the Data | This report summarizes the importance of data gathering, sharing and use between child welfare and education systems across three states: … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Report/Paper | 2015 |
| Getting it Done: Partnering to Overcome Concerns about Data Sharing | This video follows a child welfare director as she takes a moment to investigate some common barriers to data sharing … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Video | 2014 |
| Guide to Results-Based Planning and Facilitation: Achieving Results and Equity for Vulnerable Children and Youth | This guide explains how to use a proven strategic planning discipline -Results-Based Accountability (RBA) – to achieve population level results, … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2014 |
| Harnessing Big Data for Social Good: A Grand Challenge for Social Work | This paper focuses on the potential of big data and data science to produce novel types of information to inform … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Report/Paper | 2015 |
| Improving the Welfare of Native Children by Using & Managing Data | Covering the basics of data, this brief resource includes information on how data can be used to address issues and … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Overview/Summary | 2018 |
| Knowing the Numbers: Accessing and Using Child Welfare Data | This brief provides an overview of data sources that are useful to the child welfare community specifically, including the major … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Overview/Summary | 2014 |
| Levels of Research Evidence and Benefit-Cost Data for Title IV-E Waiver Interventions | This research brief describes the Title IV-E demonstration interventions used by the complete set of Title IV-E Waiver states and … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Report/Paper | 2015 |
| Making Decisions in Child Welfare | This issue of Practice Notes addresses new ways to ensure decisions are fair, well-informed, and lead to the best possible … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Overview/Summary | 2017 |
| Child Welfare Outcomes 2010–2013: Report to Congress Executive Summary | This document summarizes the Child Welfare Outcomes 2010–2013 Report to Congress which provides information on the performance of states in seven … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Overview/Summary | 2016 |
| Child Welfare Practice & Data: Making the Connection | This issue of Practice Notes explores how using data can enhance child welfare practice. | Data-Driven Decision Making | Overview/Summary | 2009 |
| ChildStat Video Training – A Case Practice Accountability Tool (NYC) | This video introduces ChildStat, a case practice accountability tool, explores the core features and the process of conducting a review, … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Video | 2013 |
| ChildStat: Leading Systems-level Improvements based on Case-level Experiences (1-page Summary) | This webinar showcases the development, implementation and outcomes of ChildStat, a creative, data-driven, systemic leadership initiative implemented in 2006 by … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Video | 2013 |
| ChildStat: Leading Systems-level Improvements based on Case-level Experiences (1-page Summary) | This document summarizes a NCWWI webinar that showcases the development, implementation, and outcomes of ChildStat, a creative, data-driven, systemic leadership … | Change Implementation, Data-Driven Decision Making, Organizational Culture and Climate | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product | 2011 |
| Collaborating to Collect and use Data to Inform Quality Contacts | This tip sheet offers considerations and collaborative strategies related to the collection, analysis, and use of quality contact data. | Data-Driven Decision Making | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2018 |
| Confidentiality Toolkit: A Resource Tool from the ACF Interoperability Initiative | This toolkit, developed by Administration for Children and Families (ACF), is intended to help jurisdictions successfully navigate the delicate balance … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2014 |
| Considering Outcomes in the Children’s System of Care | This brief serves as a primer for programs and agencies that are considering initiating work towards the measurement and management … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Overview/Summary | 2016 |
| Data Strategies: Measuring Racial Disparities in Child Welfare | This webinar helps agency leaders, managers and data staff identify at which decision points children of different races experience inequitable … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Webinar/Presentation | 2016 |
| Data-Driven Decision Making Toolkit (Los Angeles) | This guide provides key information and practical tools for consistent integration of Data-driven Decision Making (DDDM) principles and strategies into … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2013 |
| Data-driven Performance Improvement: NCWWI 1-page Summary | This paper summarizes the article “Use Of Data to Assess Performance And Promote Outcome Achievement by Public and Private Child … | Data-Driven Decision Making | 1-Page-Summary, NCWWI-Product | 2013 |
| Dismantling Racial Inequity #3: A Data-Driven Approach to Improving Outcomes for Black Girls in Child Welfare | This third session of “Dismantling Racial Inequity Through Child Welfare Systems Change” webinar series will highlight how Allegheny County Department … | Data-Driven Decision Making, Disproportionality & Disparities | NCWWI-Product, Webinar/Presentation | 2017 |
| Findings, Practice and Policy Implications from LONGSCAN: the 20-year Longitudinal Studies of Child Abuse and Neglect | This document provides an introduction to LONGSCAN, a project which was funded in part by the Children’s Bureau for two … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Overview/Summary | 2011 |
| Foster Conversations about Results With Data Walks | This video demonstrates how you can rely on data walks to get stakeholders to work together to assess and improve … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Video | 2016 |
| Framework for Managing with Data to Achieve Outcomes in Child Welfare | This five-step framework assists agencies in: engaging staff at all levels and community partners throughout the process; clarifying and focusing … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2014 |
| Front-Line Practice: Define, Assess, Plan, Implement and Monitor | This paper discusses the Define, Assess, Plan, Implement and Monitor (DAPIM) model as a continuous improvement tool that promotes strategic … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2009 |
| Child Protective Investigator and Child Protective Investigator Supervisor Educational Qualifications, Turnover, and Working Conditions Status Report: Annual Report (Florida) | This report provides a status on educational qualifications, turnover rates, and working conditions for the Department’s child protective investigators, child … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Report/Paper | 2015 |
| Child Welfare & Technology | | Data-Driven Decision Making | Report/Paper | 2011 |
| Child Welfare Information Gateway: Information Systems & Data | This webpage offers resources that address the use of information systems and data in child welfare, including planning and implementing … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Reference/Resource List | 2019 |
| A Results-Oriented Culture (7 minute microlearning) | Leaders in a results-oriented culture look at data, interpret it, and take action to make changes to improve outcomes based … | Data-Driven Decision Making | eLearning Module, NCWWI-Product | 2017 |
| Accountability | This issue of A Closer Look, examines the process of “accountability” as a valuable tool for building and sustaining effective … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Overview/Summary | 2010 |
| Allegheny County Data Warehouse | This webpage highlights a human service agency’s data warehouse that provides the central repository of social services data, allows DHS … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Website | 2019 |
| Applying Predictive Analytics to Child Welfare | This module discuss how predictive analytics might inform, assist, and improve decision making in child protection. | Data-Driven Decision Making | Webinar/Presentation | 2015 |
| Being a Good Consumer of Predictive Analytics in Child Protection | This webinar discusses what questions organizations considering predictive analytics should be asking–both of themselves and of researchers. | Data-Driven Decision Making | Webinar/Presentation | 2015 |
| Better Data, Better Outcomes: Engaging Users in Performance Management | This paper explores some of the issues affecting data quality in child welfare case management systems and their underlying causes; … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Report/Paper | 2010 |
| Building Data Driven Child Welfare Practice: An Evaluation of the Manage by Data Initiative | This report presents findings from the evaluation of Manage by Data which sought to identify implementation challenges and solutions, presenting … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Report/Paper | 2013 |
| Building Workforce Capacity through a Child Welfare Practice Model: Lessons from the Field | This paper shares specific and targeted strategies employed by states for improving supervision and front line practice, quality assurance, as … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Report/Paper | 2012 |
| CalSWEC’s Ecological Model for Workforce Development | This model was developed as a guide for workforce development evaluation and research activities. The model depicts the contributions of education, in-service … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Tool/Guide/Manual | 2014 |
| A Blueprint for Using Data to Reduce Disparities/Disproportionalities in Human Services & Behavioral Health | This guide shows how to use data to help achieve racial equity in human and behavioral health care services policy, … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Report/Paper | 2013 |
| ChildStat: Leading Systems-level Improvements based on Case-level Experiences | ChildStat: Leading Systems-level Improvements based on Case-level Experiences | Change Implementation, Data-Driven Decision Making, Organizational Culture and Climate | NCWWI-Product, Webinar/Presentation | 2011 |
| From Automated to Comprehensive: What child welfare organizations need to succeed | This report provides insights into how agencies can optimally meet the key provisions of Comprehensive Child Welfare Information Systems (CCWIS) … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Report/Paper | 2016 |
| The PII Approach: Building Implementation and Evaluation Capacity in Child Welfare | This report describes Permanency Innovations Initiative’s collaborative approach to implementation and evaluation. | Data-Driven Decision Making | Report/Paper | 2013 |
| The Permanency Innovations Initiative Approach to Evaluation | This brief describes the overall evaluation approach, including an explanation of the evaluation framework and a description of both pre-evaluation … | Data-Driven Decision Making | Overview/Summary | 2015 |
