Predictive Risk Modeling for Child Protection

This document describes how predictive risk models can help child protective services navigate an environment where it is hard to separate “noise” from “signal.”

Child Maltreatment Incidence Data Linkages: Project Overview

The Child Maltreatment Incidence Data Linkages project aims to examine the feasibility of leveraging administrative data linkages to better understand child maltreatment incidence and related risk and protective factors.

Federal and Local Efforts to Support Youth At-Risk of Homelessness

This issue brief discusses the overall Youth At-Risk of Homelessness (YARH) grant program, including the rationale for the grant program and the supports provided to grantees.

Building the Bridge: Linking Medicaid and Child Welfare Data to Identify High Service Users in Child Welfare

In this web-based and interactive issue brief, Mathematica Policy Research and Casey Family Programs share results from a study they conducted, which linked child welfare and Medicaid data to identify high service users amongst a sample of children in foster care in Tennessee and Florida.

Superutilization of Child Welfare, Medicaid, and Other Services

Mathematica and Casey Family Programs have published the final report from a project linking child welfare and Medicaid data to conduct analyses to understand types of high service use and to identify factors predictive of high service use among children in foster care.

Superutilization of Child Welfare, Medicaid, and Other Services (Executive Summary)

Mathematica and Casey Family Programs have published the final report from a project linking child welfare and Medicaid data to conduct analyses to understand types of high service use and to identify factors predictive of high service use among children in foster care.

Reducing Homelessness Among Youth with Child Welfare Involvement: An Analysis of Phase I Planning Processes in a Multi-phase Grant

The focus of this report is a process study of Phase I. The report documents the activities and progress grantees made over the course of the planning period.

Using Evidence to Improve Programs and Inform Policy Decisions

Testimony presented to the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking about the importance of using evidence to improve programs and inform policy decisions.

Addressing Unaddressed Needs: Helping Agencies Target Services to Children and Caregivers in Child Welfare

This brief reveals a significant gap between service needs and service receipt among children and caregivers in the 18 months after a child welfare investigation.

Connecting At-Risk Youth to Promising Occupations

This brief provides information for programs and organizations that serve at-risk youth transitioning to adulthood.