Outcomes after child welfare services: Implications for the design of performance measures

  • Richard P. Barth
  • , Melissa Jonson-Reid

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Abstract

Reinvigorated efforts to develop performance measures for child welfare services have largely ignored a critical aspect of child welfare outcomes - what happens to children after their involvement with child welfare services ends. The authors present data from studies of post-child welfare services mortality and incarceration to indicate the vital need to incorporate information about post-child welfare services into a broad research agenda and into performance measures. Specific recommendations are advanced about the inclusion of safety indicators in performance indicator schemes.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)763-787
Number of pages25
JournalChildren and Youth Services Review
Volume22
Issue number9-10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2000

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