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The 13th National Child Welfare Data and Technology Conference
Call for Papers
Monday, July 19 – Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Hyatt Regency Bethesda
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The 13th National Child Welfare Data and Technology Conference will take place July 19 – 21, 2010 in the Washington, DC area. We invite colleagues in the courts, Tribes and States to share their efforts in effectively integrating data to improve child welfare services and outcomes to children, youth and families and to demonstrate how the approach may be used by others. We particularly invite Tribal leaders, both in child welfare and the Tribal courts to share their efforts at collecting, integrating and using data to inform their services and systems.
The conference will highlight successful data integration and will explore the process of combining data from various sources to provide users with a clear and unified perspective of complex issues. As child welfare systems across the country seek to make meaningful and lasting improvements in service to children and families, it is clear that agencies cannot achieve success in a vacuum. Courts and child welfare agencies, along with key service providers, must coordinate and integrate their goals, approaches and strategies in serving the same children, youth, and families. Tribes that provide services to their families face the challenge of collecting data on a wide range of services. Data integration contributes to a holistic view of our clients, but raises both business and technology issues.
Another form of data integration we aim to explore relates to the use of data to inform practice. It is essential that data and data collection systems are considered from the very beginning when organizations are in the process of making systems change. A priority within the field of child welfare is also using data throughout the organization in order to inform practice, to plan, to manage, and to measure results.
We are particularly interested in presentations that address one or more of the following areas:
- The collection and use of evaluative data across systems (i.e. courts, providers, advocates, juvenile justice, mental health, medical and educational systems, TANF, etc.) to share, integrate, and use data to improve outcomes, assess service array, manage budgets, and influence laws and policies;
- Communicating data to field staff and various stakeholders, including youth, empowering them to have a direct impact on policy, training, practices and outcomes;
- Efforts to collect, analyze, and use NYTD data and data for Round 2 of the CFSRs, including technological solutions, system redesigns, program evaluations, and QA systems;
- The use of data in program evaluations of new child welfare initiatives, including the implementation of practice models and other innovations;
- Systems used by Tribal child welfare agencies to collect and analyze child welfare data, including systems that collect data across systems and planned future directions in this area;
- Tribal efforts in determining what types of systems would work for them and how and why they are considering going in that direction;
- Data exchange between courts and child welfare agencies;
- Improving court data systems with the Toolkit for Court Performance Measurement in Child Abuse and Neglect Cases;
- Guidance in the safe and effective use of social media, social networking, mobile technology, and other innovations;
- Enterprise architecture – Moving towards a uniform business architecture for human services: identifying barriers, overcoming impediments, and addressing governance issues;
- The innovative use of data dashboards, data marts, data warehouses, and data mining; and
- Security standards in an intergovernmental data sharing environment, including privacy and confidentiality in child welfare data and court records.
Completed submissions received by Friday, February 26, 2010 will be reviewed and recommended by the Conference Advisory Committee on the following criteria:
*Presenter's background demonstrates knowledge of the topic area
*Engaging presentation that encourages active participation and discussion by attendees
*Relevance to conference’s theme
*Incorporate data or system technology
*Applicable, practical, and timely topic
*Fully and thoughtfully developed proposal
*Identified objectives and goal(s) of the presentation
*Sufficiently detailed information about the format and content of the session
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