Resources

Field Test Sites

Project developers field-tested the decision-making Guidelines at five public- and private-sector child welfare agencies in rural, semi-rural, and urban settings. Frontline workers and supervisors at each site reported a high level of satisfaction with the Guidelines and found them:

• Helpful for case planning
• Useful for child and family assessment
• Helpful for raising or illuminating case issues that they would not have considered otherwise
• Well-written and clearly formatted
• Useful for supervisory review

Test Sites

Pennsylvania

• Lancaster County Children and Youth Agency (public agency)
• Philadelphia Department of Human Services (public)
• Bethanna (private)
• Tabor Services (private)

Iowa

• Polk County (Des Moines) Department of Human Services (public)

Colorado

• Denver Indian Family Resource Center (Guidelines review only)