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Referrals Caseload Rates Safety Reunification Adoption Long Term Care Placement Stability Siblings Distances [static] Entries Point in Time Point-in-Time Placement Grids Exits Case Service Components Referral & Substantiation Rates Entry Rates In Care Rates S1.1 [No recurrence of maltreatment] S2.1 [No maltreatment in foster care] C1.1 [Reunification within 12 months (exit cohort)] C1.2 [Median time to reunification (exit cohort)] C1.3 [Reunification within 12 months (entry cohort)] C1.4 [Reentry following reunification (exit cohort)] C2.1 [Adoption within 24 months (exit cohort)] C2.2 [Median time to adoption (exit cohort)] C2.3 [Adoption within 12 months (17 months in care)] C2.4 [Legally free within 6 months (17 months in care)] C2.5 [Adoption within 12 months (legally free)] C3.1 [Exits to permanency (24 months in care)] C3.2 [Exits to permanency (legally free at exit)] C3.3 [In care 3 years or longer (emancipated or age 18 in care)] C4.1,2,3 [Placement stability]

A collection of UCB Powerpoint presentations using CWS/CMS data

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  Note: Some slides may appear in more than one presentation and data are often updated--most recent presentations are at the top of the list.

• CWS Outcomes System Update: July 1, 2008 (data through January 1, 2008)
  (07/08 - )
  

• Child Welfare in California: A Quick Tour of the Data and a Racial Equity
  (06/08 - San Francisco State University SSW guest lecture)
  

• Race Matters Toolkit Overview (developed by Annie E. Casey Foundation)
  (06/08 - New York City ACS)
  

• CFSR2 National Standard/Composite Scores
  (05/08 - CWDA Children's Committee and more)
  

• Child Welfare in California: Ethnic/Racial Disproportionality and Disparity
  (04/08 - Child Welfare Council and Calswec Fairness and Equity Conference)
  

• CFSR2 Data Indicators (Revised)
  (03/08 - Multiple Venues)
  

• Data 101: Numbers, Graphs, and More Numbers
  (2/08 & 3/08 - Children and Family Services Division Data Training)
  

• Cumulative Racial Disparity in Child Welfare
  (02/08 - County Welfare Directors Association Children's Committee)
  

• California’s Child Welfare System: Using Data from CWS/CMS
  (01/08 - Q207 Updated Child Welfare Slides)
  

• Foster Care Reunification
  (01/08 - SSWR)
  The use of hierarchical modeling to account for sibling and county correlation
  

• California’s Child Welfare System: Using Data from CWS/CMS
  (11/07 - Legislative Analyst Office)
  

• California’s Child Welfare System: Data Trends & Child Outcomes
  (10/07 - )
  

• Building a Better Child Welfare System for Fresno's Children: Using Data as Our Foundation (and Friend!)
  (09/07 - Fresno Child Welfare Summit)
  

• Child Welfare: Ethnic/Racial Disproportionality and Disparity
  (09/07 - California Blue Ribbon Commission on Foster Care)
  

• CFSR2 Data Indicators: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  (08/07 - Several Venues)
  

• Data Use vs. Misuse: The challenging nature of publicly available data
  (07/07 - NRCCWTDT Conference)
  

• California's Child Welfare System: A Data Snapshot
  (07/07 - Presentation to CDSS Director John Wagner)
  

• Children Ever in Care
  (01/07 - SSWR)
  

• California Child Welfare Outcomes and Accountability Legislation: Evolving Toward System Improvement with Longitudinal Data & Analysis
  PowerPoint | PDF
  (11/06 - APPAM)
  

• Increasing Child Welfare Permanency Options: The Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment Program
  (08/06 - NAWRS Conference)
  

• Children Ever in Care
  (08/06 - NAWRS conference)
  

• Foster Care Reentry: Going beyond 12 months of follow up
  (08/06 - NAWRS conference)
  

• California CWSCMS Data Overview
  (05/06 - CWDA Children's Committee)
  

• Presentation to the California Blue Ribbon Commission on Children in Foster Care
  (03/06 - Foster Care in California: What We Know from CWS/CMS)
  

• Testimony to California Assembly Human Services Committee and Select Committee on Foster Care--Joint Hearing
  PowerPoint | PDF
  (03/06 - California Child Welfare Improvement and Accountability System (AB636))
  

• Testimony to California Assembly Select Committee on Foster Care
  (02/06 - Kinship Care)
  

• The California Child Welfare System: Data Snapshot
  (12/05 - Beyond the Bench Conference)
  

• Children Ever in Care
  (09/05 - NAWRS Conference)
  Explores the incidence of child welfare involvement during the first five years of children's lives
  

• Measuring Child Welfare Agency Performance
  (09/05 - NAWRS Conference)
  Advantages and Challenges of State, County, & University Collaboration
  

• Risks of Reentry into the Foster Care System for Children who Reunified
  (09/05 - NAWRS Conference)
  

• Foster Care Reentry after Reunification
  (09/05 - NRCCWDT Conference)
  Reentry in One or Two years – what’s the difference?
  

• Reunification for Siblings in Out-of-Home Care
  (09/05 - NAWRS Conference)
  Using a Statistical Technique for Examining Non-independent Observations
  

• Linking administrative data sets for self-evaluation
  (09/05 - NAWRS Conference)
  Preliminary results from the Annie E. Casey Foundation Family to Family Initiative in California
  

• Presentation Handout: UCB Data Dude
  (09/05 - Anaheim, CA)
  

• The C-CFSR or Some of my Best Friends are Outcome Measures
  (07/05 - NRCCWDT Conference)