Convening participants received a notebook containing articles and reports related to roundtable topics. These materials included the following:
Educational and employment outcomes of adults formerly placed in foster care: Results from the Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study; Peter Pecora, et al.
Assessing Outcomes of Youth Transitioning from Foster Care; Department of Human Services, State of Utah.
Disproportionality in Child Welfare: An Update; Robert Hill.
Disproportionality in Child Protective Services: Statewide Reform Effort Begins with Examination of the Problem; Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Department of Family and Protective Services.
Equity: Moving Toward Better Outcomes for All of Michigan’s Children; Report from the Michigan Advisory Committee on the Overrepresentation of Children of Color in Child Welfare.
Building a Better Court: Measuring and Improving Court Performance and Judicial Workload in Child Abuse and Neglect Cases; the American Bar Association, Center on Children and the Law; the National Center for State Courts; and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges.
What You Count Counts: National Measures of Performance to Monitor Effectiveness in Child Abuse and Neglect Cases; Sophia Gatowski, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges.
Expecting More: A Blueprint for Raising the Educational Achievement of Foster and Probation Youth, February 2006, Educational Coordinating Council, Los Angeles County.
ECC Overview
Data Match Results; ECC, Los Angeles Unified School District, Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services, and Los Angeles County Probation Department, April 2006
Child Welfare League of America Comments on ACF’s Proposed Rule for the Chafee National Youth in Transition Database.
Can States Be Compared Based on Child Welfare Data?; National Data Analysis System Issue Brief, May 2006. National Working Group to Improve Child Welfare Data, NDAS.
Interdepartmental Task Force on Service to At-Risk Youth Transitioning to Adulthood, Department of Human Services, State of Michigan, Report to the Legislature, September 2006.