Archive: August 2017

Read our newest report spotlight on how Necco, a private child, youth, and family-serving agency, engaged with Data Center researchers to convert its administrative data resources into research evidence. Learn how this partnership helped Necco build knowledge about its performance and develop organizational capacity for continuous quality improvement (CQI).... Read more >

Did you know that you can use the FCDA webtool to make observations about the rate of reentry to foster care and how it varies throughout your state? Our latest Webtool Recipe explains how to use the FCDA webtool and Excel Pivot Tables to answer key questions about the likelihood of reentering foster care. ... Read more >

The Center for State Child Welfare Data latest research suggests that representing foster care outcomes using a multivariate linear model may fall short of capturing the complex dynamics that shape what happens to children, when, and why. ... Read more >

Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory invite you to participate in the workshop: System Science in Action, on Tuesday, October 3, 2017. The goal of this workshop is to share multidisciplinary approaches to system science research, and promote the use of system science to improve the quality of human built systems. ... Read more >

Registration Form for 'System Science in Action'. A workshop on the use of system science in policy making. ... Read more >