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The Global Social Service Workforce Alliance hosted the 6th Annual Social Service Workforce Strengthening Symposium on the topic of using evidence as a catalyst for advocacy efforts to support the social service workforce. Held on May 7, 2019, in Washington, DC, and via live webcast, a total of 313 individuals and 13 watch parties participated from 42 countries across NGOs, practice, government, academia, associations, foundations, UN agencies and other experts in the field. They heard speakers share experiences and lessons learned from recent comprehensive social…
This webinar series offers technical assistance to child welfare agencies in the US on how to use data to improve outcomes for children and families.
The first webinar in this series discusses strategies for mining administrative data to assess the characteristics and needs of at-risk child welfare populations. Using examples from a federal Permanency Innovations Initiative (PII) grantee in Illinois, Dr. Dana Weiner identifies the key requirements of productive data mining, steps in the data mining process, and useful statistical techniques for analyzing and making sense of administrative…
Data-driven decision making (DDDM) is a way to determine a course of action based on quality data. It uses data systematically and intelligently to assess, test, and improve a program, activity, or process.
DDDM is about getting the right data to the right people at the right time to effectively use the data to problem-solve and improve performance. It can help child welfare organizations identify and respond to emerging trends and needs among children and families.
This three-part video series shows how a fictional organization, Greene County Department of Human Services, set out to…
The Measuring Separation in Emergencies (MSiE) project is an inter-agency initiative funded by the USAID Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance and co-ordinated by Save the Children, in partnership with Columbia University in New York. The project is guided by an inter-agency Advisory Panel and supported by the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action's Assessment, Measurement, and Evidence Working Group. The overall aim of MSiE is to strengthen emergency response programs for unaccompanied and separated children through the development of a suite of practical, field-tested…