Measuring Contract Agency Performance with Administrative Data

This article uses administrative data to analyze the relative performance of contract agencies—those organizations under contract with a city child welfare agency to provide out-of-home care services to children placed in the custody of the public agency—by examining how long it took children placed...

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Published in:Child welfare Vol. 79; no. 5; pp. 457 - 474
Main Authors: Wulczyn, Fred, Orlebeke, Britany, Melamid, Elan
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States Child Welfare League of America, Inc 01.09.2000
Subjects:
Administrators
Case Records
Child
Child custody
Child Custody - organization & administration
Child Custody - statistics & numerical data
Child Welfare
Child Welfare Services
Children
Contract Services - economics
Contract Services - organization & administration
Contracts
Data Banks
Decision Making
Efficiency, Organizational
Family Reunification
Foster Care
Foster Children
Government Programs - organization & administration
Home health care
Humans
Length of residency
Length of stay
Management Audit - statistics & numerical data
MEASURING PERFORMANCE
Methodology (Data Analysis)
Models, Organizational
New York City
Organizational effectiveness
Performance appraisal
Performance Factors
Placement
Private sector
Program Evaluation
Program Evaluation - statistics & numerical data
Records Management
Regression (Statistics)
Services
Social Agencies
Statistical Significance
Welfare Agencies
Welfare Services
New York City
ISSN:0009-4021
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Summary:This article uses administrative data to analyze the relative performance of contract agencies—those organizations under contract with a city child welfare agency to provide out-of-home care services to children placed in the custody of the public agency—by examining how long it took children placed in out-of-home care to return home to their families. The objective was to determine whether credible empirical evidence could show a relationship between length of stay and the agency providing care. Agency level reunification rates are widely distributed around the mean, indicating that contract agency performance differs and that "agency effects" leave an independent imprint on a child's out-of-home care experience.
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ISSN:0009-4021