New challenges and opportunities in child welfare outcomes and information technologies.
In spite of longstanding concern on the part of child welfare policymakers, researchers, and practitioners, we still lack basic information about the outcomes of child welfare services. This article describes the limitations of current efforts to generate data on child welfare outcomes, presents ce...
| Published in: | Child Welfare Vol. 73; pp. 359 - 379 |
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Child Welfare League of America
September/October 1994
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