Wayne County Foster Care
Publications and Related Research Summaries
Innovations in the Delivery of Foster Care Services: Evaluating the Effects of Managed Care Approaches on Children in Foster Care and the Agencies That Serve Them.
This paper begins with an examination of the current state of child welfare service delivery programs with specific attention paid to the increasing use of incentive-based, managed care services. It then describes the pilot program in Michigan, which is an incentive-based, managed care model. Included in this description is the evaluation of this program which is currently underway. The paper concludes with a discussion of the necessity to evaluate new child welfare service programs in more comprehensive ways than are currently being done.There are three major research questions that are to be answered by this research study:
- Do children served by the pilot nonprofit agencies have better case outputs than children served by other nonprofit child welfare agencies in Wayne County?
- What factors are associated with better outputs for children in the pilot agencies?
- What factors are associated with better outputs for children in the
non-pilot agencies?
Last updated: 4/28/03
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