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Direct linkKearney, Kathleen A.; McEwen, Erwin; Bloom-Ellis, Brice; Jordan, Neil – Child Welfare, 2010
The National Quality Improvement Center on the Privatization of Child Welfare Services selected Illinois as a demonstration site in 2007 to evaluate performance-based contracting in residential treatment services. This article discusses the first two years of project implementation including developing residential treatment performance indicators,…
Descriptors: Residential Care, Child Welfare, Privatization, Performance Contracts
Peer reviewedTesta, Mark F.; Rolock, Nancy – Child Welfare, 1999
Compared a professional foster-care program and two specialized programs in Cook County, Illinois, with kinship and nonrelative-family foster homes. Found that professional and kinship foster care consistently outperformed specialized and nonrelative care in stability, sibling placement, care restrictiveness, and proximity to child's community of…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Comparative Analysis, Foster Care, Foster Children
