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Message ID: 10576
Date: 2020-01-18
Author:Joseph Ryan
Subject:Re: Child centered outcome measures
Despite widespread use, I do not believe CANS was designed to measure change over time. Joe On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 9:51 AM Chen, Lijun > wrote:
Hi Rich,
I wonder whether you know the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) assessment tool developed by John Lyons. John used to work as a colleague at Chapin Hall, now with University of Kentucky. CANS has been used in some states as an assessment tool for children being investigated or to be placed in out of home care. It has modules for different domains of child well-being and for different age groups. You can contact John to learn more about CANS.
I hope this is helpful for your efforts.
Lijun Chen, Ph.D.
Senior Researcher
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago
1313 East 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637
Office Tel.: 773 2565140
www.chapinhall.org
From: bounce-124262866-9885936@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-124262866-9885936@list.cornell.edu ] On Behalf Of Richard
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2020 1:33 PM
To: child-maltreatment-research-l@list.cornell.edu
Subject: Child centered outcome measures
Greetings Everyone,
We are starting a conversation in Minnesota about measuring outcomes at the child level. We have in mind to get baseline measures when children come into the system, using existing validated instruments, that would include an assessment of trauma, physical and mental development, and behavioral and mental health. The idea is that over time, if the system is doing its job well, all of these metrics will improve. We recognize this is not a small undertaking but we want to get started thinking about it.
The hypothesis is that by rolling up these measures, de-identified of course, at the worker, supervisor, unit, County and state levels, it will become more clear how well children are doing. Also, following the principle that “what gets measured is what it’s done”, measuring child-centered outcomes would focus on child well-being in ways that add an important dimension to the current (though also important) process-oriented child welfare metrics such as timeliness of response, frequency of social worker visits, length of time in care etc.
Is anyone aware of efforts underway to measure child-level outcomes in any counties or states?
Thanks for whatever help you can provide.
Rich Gehrman
Executive Director
Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota
651-303-3209
www.safepassagemn.org
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Joseph P. Ryan, Ph.D.
Professor
Director
Child and Adolescent Data Lab
ssw-datalab.org
Despite widespread use, I do not believe CANS was designed to measure change over time. Joe On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 9:51 AM Chen, Lijun > wrote:
Hi Rich,
I wonder whether you know the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) assessment tool developed by John Lyons. John used to work as a colleague at Chapin Hall, now with University of Kentucky. CANS has been used in some states as an assessment tool for children being investigated or to be placed in out of home care. It has modules for different domains of child well-being and for different age groups. You can contact John to learn more about CANS.
I hope this is helpful for your efforts.
Lijun Chen, Ph.D.
Senior Researcher
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago
1313 East 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637
Office Tel.: 773 2565140
www.chapinhall.org
From: bounce-124262866-9885936list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-124262866-9885936list.cornell.edu ] On Behalf Of Richard
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2020 1:33 PM
To: child-maltreatment-research-llist.cornell.edu
Subject: Child centered outcome measures
Greetings Everyone,
We are starting a conversation in Minnesota about measuring outcomes at the child level. We have in mind to get baseline measures when children come into the system, using existing validated instruments, that would include an assessment of trauma, physical and mental development, and behavioral and mental health. The idea is that over time, if the system is doing its job well, all of these metrics will improve. We recognize this is not a small undertaking but we want to get started thinking about it.
The hypothesis is that by rolling up these measures, de-identified of course, at the worker, supervisor, unit, County and state levels, it will become more clear how well children are doing. Also, following the principle that “what gets measured is what it’s done”, measuring child-centered outcomes would focus on child well-being in ways that add an important dimension to the current (though also important) process-oriented child welfare metrics such as timeliness of response, frequency of social worker visits, length of time in care etc.
Is anyone aware of efforts underway to measure child-level outcomes in any counties or states?
Thanks for whatever help you can provide.
Rich Gehrman
Executive Director
Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota
651-303-3209
www.safepassagemn.org
--
Joseph P. Ryan, Ph.D.
Professor
Director
Child and Adolescent Data Lab
ssw-datalab.org
Author:Joseph Ryan
Subject:Re: Child centered outcome measures
Despite widespread use, I do not believe CANS was designed to measure change over time. Joe On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 9:51 AM Chen, Lijun
Despite widespread use, I do not believe CANS was designed to measure change over time. Joe On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 9:51 AM Chen, Lijun