State of Play PRM in the US Center for State Child Welfare Data - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Fred Wulczyn State of Play – PRM in the US Center for State Child Welfare Data Chapin Hall University of Chicago

Overview ‣ Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) ‣ Tennessee ‣ NYC ‣ Latent critique University of Chicago Chapin Hall Center for Children Center for State Child Welfare Data

Allegheny County ‣ Two projects ‣ Screen in / screen out ‣ Hello Baby University of Chicago Chapin Hall Center for Children Center for State Child Welfare Data

Tennessee ‣ Placement disruption ‣ Improving human decision making University of Chicago Chapin Hall Center for Children Center for State Child Welfare Data

New York City ‣ Distinction between action vs. limited action ‣ What piece of information to collect next University of Chicago Chapin Hall Center for Children Center for State Child Welfare Data

Latent Critique ‣ Provoked a thoughtful assessment of standards ‣ One vs many decisions ‣ How to make humans better decision-makers ‣ Feedback ‣ The myth of individualized decision-making ‣ The best evidence suggests that decisions are relative judgments ‣ Congregate care ‣ What is the quality of the science? ‣ False negatives – a failure of the model or actions taken ‣ Evidence-use paradigm University of Chicago Chapin Hall Center for Children Center for State Child Welfare Data