RESUMEN
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, adjusting those indicators for risk at the provider level, and setting agency-specific benchmarks, as well as the project's fiscal foundation and related systemic improvements to support policy and practice change resulting from this initiative.
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Servicios Contratados/métodos , Política de Salud , Guías de Práctica Clínica como Asunto , Asociación entre el Sector Público-Privado , Garantía de la Calidad de Atención de Salud/métodos , Tratamiento Domiciliario/métodos , Adolescente , Niño , Servicios Contratados/organización & administración , Humanos , Illinois , Tratamiento Domiciliario/organización & administraciónRESUMEN
This article looks at an example of infusing protective factors into a child welfare system. Focusing on Illinois and its state child welfare agency, the article reviews some of the research on the relationship between risk behaviors and protective factors of traumatized youth. Next, it looks at adapting treatment and evidence-based early intervention practices to local child welfare settings. These interventions are placed in the wider context of a state plan to enhance protective factors. The article reviews how the state and local plans have been influenced by federal policies and how the Illinois experience might help refine future policy.