Category: Analytic Tools
20 Years of Rigor, Innovation, and Impact
The Center for State Child Welfare Data | 2024
In 2024, the Center for State Child Welfare Data celebrated 20 years of supporting child-and-family serving agencies around the world. To commemorate the anniversary, we compiled a retrospective outlining the breadth and depth of the Center’s extraordinary portfolio.
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Framing Analytic Questions in the Context of Continuous Quality Improvement
2012
Read this post from the Data Center’s user-support blog, Recipes, about how longitudinal data can help your agency answer questions about system performance throughout the cycle of continuous quality improvement.
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A 5-Year Projection in the Number of Children Turning Age 18 while in Foster Care
Fred Wulczyn, Linda Collins | 2010
In this report, the authors describe a model for projecting the number of children who will turn 18 while in foster care (i.e., will age out of foster care) in the coming five years. Taking into account changes in the number of children entering care, changes in the age distribution of children entering care, and changes in how long children stay in care, the model projects that the number of children aging out of foster care will most likely decline and then level off over the next 5 years.
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