Project Overview
Enhance the data infrastructure and analytic capacity of public child welfare and Medicaid agencies to improve the delivery and oversight of services, enhance monitoring of program spending, and conduct cross-program evaluation of service outcomes.
The impetus for the Child Welfare and Health Infrastructure for Linking and Data Analysis of Resources, Effectiveness, and Needs (CHILDREN) initiative is to help public child welfare and Medicaid agencies enhance their data infrastructure to support the implementation of the Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA; P.L. 115-123), which changed how states and tribes may use funding available through Title IV-E of the Social Security Act.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
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Building Successful Data Linking Teams for Child Welfare and Medicaid Agencies
Linking data across public systems can help improve care coordination efforts, advance research regarding populations engaged with multiple public services, and assist program integrity activities focused on those systems. The Child Welfare Health Infrastructure for Linking and Data Analysis of Resources, Effectiveness, and Needs (CHILDREN) Initiative is a five-year project funded by the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Program, run by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) and implemented by Mathematica.
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