Child Welfare Study to Enhance Equity with Data (CW-SEED)

The Child Welfare Study to Enhance Equity with Data (CW-SEED) project aims to understand how and to what extent data are used to explore equity in service delivery and child and family outcomes, to identify barriers or problematic data practices, and to explore efforts by child welfare agencies and their partners to use data to reduce barriers across the continuum of child welfare services. The project will examine practices across the data life cycle related to data planning, collection, access, and analysis; use of statistical tools and algorithms; and data reporting and dissemination. The project will develop a research agenda and propose design options that will provide a platform for building capacity among child welfare agencies and their partners. 

Mathematica Policy Research and its partners—the Center for the Study of Social Policy and the University of North Carolina School of Social Work—are conducting this project under contract with the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation in collaboration with the Children’s Bureau within the Administration for Children and Families. 

Point(s) of contact: Christine Fortunato, Nicole Denmark, and Jenessa Malin.

Related Resources

Share information about how state and local child welfare agencies and their partners collect and use data to enhance equity among the populations they serve.