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Overview of California’s Child Welfare Indicator Data Barbara Needell, MSW, PhD Center for Social Services Research School of Social Welfare University of California, Berkeley The California Child Welfare Indicators Project (CCWIP) is a collaboration of the California Department of Social Services and the School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley, and is supported by the California Department of Social Services and the Stuart Foundation Tracking Child Welfare Outcomes rate of allegations/ substantiated allegations home-based services vs. out of home care reentry to care permanency through reunification, adoption, or guardianship counterbalanced indicators of system performance length of stay stability of care use of least restrictive form of care positive attachments to family, friends, and neighbors Source: Usher, C.L., Wildfire, J.B., Gogan, H.C. & Brown, E.L. (2002). Measuring Outcomes in Child Welfare. Chapel Hill: Jordan Institute for Families Thinking about Prevention Birth Record Linkages: Selected Findings • 14% of children in birth cohort were reported to CPS by age 5 – lower bound estimate…could not match 16% of CPS records – 25% of these children were reported within the first 3 days of life – 35% of all reported children were reported as infants • 11 of 12 variables were significantly associated with CPS contact – crude risk ratios >2 were observed for 7 variables • Contact with CPS is hardly a rare event for certain groups – 30% of black children reported – 25% of children born to teen mothers Birth Record Variables sex birth weight prenatal care birth abnormality maternal birth place race • female • male maternal age • 2500g+ • <2500g • 1st trimester • 2nd trimester • 3rd trimester • no care • present • none • US born • non-US born • native american • black • Hispanic • white • asian/pacific islander maternal education pregnancy termination hx named father • <=19 • 20-24 • 25-29 • 30+ • <high school • high school • some college • college+ • prior termination • none reported • missing • named father # of children in the family • one • two • three+ birth payment method • public/med-cal • other Assessing Risk at Birth? Full Birth Cohort 15% Children Reported to CPS 50% Recognizing the Risk Associated with the Presence Of Multiple Risk Factors… High Risk on Every Modifiable Risk Factor: 89% probability of CPS report Low Risk on Every Modifiable Risk Factor: 3% probability of CPS report Questions? Comments? Barbara Needell 510 290 6334 [email protected] http://cssr.berkeley.edu/ucb_childwelfare