Child welfare privatization: Quantitative indicators and policy issues

Svetlana Yampolskaya; Robert I. Paulson; Mary Armstrong; Neil Jordan; Amy C. Vargo

doi:10.1177/0193841X03258359

Child welfare privatization: Quantitative indicators and policy issues

Svetlana Yampolskaya^*, Robert I. Paulson, Mary Armstrong, Neil Jordan, Amy C. Vargo

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Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the development of safety, permanency, and child well-being indicators by using administrative data sets as well as by using these indicators as tools for evaluating Florida's Community-Based Care (CBC) initiative. Longitudinal data from 37 counties including 4 counties that implemented community-based care were examined in this study. The results of the study indicated that the overall performance of CBC counties is at least as good as the performance of their comparison run by the state counties. The findings that emerged from this study may provide important lessons for developing a performance measurement system in the child welfare field.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	87-103
Number of pages	17
Journal	Evaluation Review
Volume	28
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0193841X03258359
State	Published - Apr 2004

Keywords

Child welfare
Evaluation
Indicators
Privatization

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