Child Welfare Birth Match: Timely Use of Child Welfare Administrative Data to Protect Newborns

Shaw, Terry V.; Barth, Richard P.; Mattingly, John B.; Ayer, David; Berry, Steve

doi:10.1080/15548732.2013.766822

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“…A narrower approach to early detection is a birth match system, which identifies newborn children of parents with serious histories of child abuse or neglect perpetration or who have had their parental rights involuntarily terminated to a previous child (Shaw, Barth, Mattingly, Ayer, & Berry, 2013), thereby allowing states to initiate an assessment of the newborn child’s safety and to offer preventive services. By only using a parent’s prior confirmed behavior, birth match systems are narrowly targeted and more transparent than the complex algorithms used in PRM.…”

Section: Opportunities For Foster Care Reform Through Policymentioning

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Foster Care: How We Can, and Should, Do More for Maltreated Children

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Gershoff

2020

Social Policy Report

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Foster care provides round-the-clock substitute care for nearly 700,000 U.S. children who are temporarily or permanently separated from their family of origin each year. Each state manages its own foster care system according to federal regulations. Despite numerous large-scale federal policy reforms over the past several decades, substantial concerns remain about the experiences and outcomes of children in the foster care system. The most recent effort to reform foster care, the Family First Prevention Services Act of 2018, attempts to both reduce the use of foster care and increase the quality of care. In this report, we review how policy has shaped the experiences and outcomes of children in foster care, where policy has succeeded, and where it falls short of achieving its goals. We then identify opportunities for federal and state policy to better support the safety, health, and well-being of children in foster care.

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Section: Opportunities For Foster Care Reform Through Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

Foster Care: How We Can, and Should, Do More for Maltreated Children

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Gershoff

2020

Social Policy Report

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“…We also have an ongoing need for linked data and collaboration across multiple programs for multiple purposes including surveillance, evaluation of existing and new policies, planning and implementation of community-level violence prevention and child maltreatment prevention strategies, and evaluation of services. The CDC could certainly better leverage funding to states for the accumulation of birth records—under the National Vital Records Program—by asking states to link those data to CWS data to generate intervention opportunities to assist CWS-involved families who are having newborns (Shaw et al 2013). We could also learn much more about service needs, usual care in child welfare, and preventive services through investments in cross-systems data exchanges such as the Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS) and efforts to enhance and modernize existing data systems to support research, business, practice, and client data needs (Harrison et al 2018).…”

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The Child Maltreatment Prevention Landscape: Where Are We Now, and Where Should We Go?

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Simons²,

Johnson‐Motoyama³

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Child maltreatment calls for a broad range of preventative policies and practices, but limited governmental funding and leadership has been devoted to the problem. Effective strategies to prevent maltreatment exist, but they have had limited uptake in the child welfare system. In this article, we trace how government responsibility for the prevention of child maltreatment became centered within the nation’s child protection response. Further, we discuss developments in prevention science, review the existing literature on the effectiveness of a range of prevention strategies, and present a public health approach to prevention. The article concludes with a set of recommendations to inform future efforts to prevent child maltreatment through approaches that seek to expand capacity for the implementation of evidence-based prevention programs, while addressing the adverse community experiences that exacerbate risk for child maltreatment.

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“…6 It is possible that the ethical cost of not using accurate predictive models is greater than any ethical cost attendant to instituting such models. Creating such a program in the United States is not utterly without precedent, 7 but it would represent a paradigmatic change in how we see the role of the state in protecting children and supporting families, supplementing the current hotline-gated system with an empirically sound and timely, preventive system. The question is, "Do we want to do it?"…”

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