Current as of:
Quality Improvement Centers (QICs) generate and disseminate research and knowledge in specific focus areas with the goal of helping agencies, managers, workers, and other child welfare professionals with service delivery.
- Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permananency - Works to ensure child welfare programs and practice are authentically engaging and empowering children and youth in child welfare throughout the U.S., especially in relation to permanency decisions.
- National Quality Improvement Center on Family-Centered Reunification - Translating Research into Practice in Support of Families with Children in Foster Care.
- Center for Native Child and Family Resilience - Raises awareness of Tribally engaged prevention and intervention efforts in child welfare.
- National Quality Improvement Center (QIC) on Tailored Services, Placement Stability, and Permanency for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Two-Spirit (LGBTQ2S) Children and Youth in Foster Care - Over the course of 5 years, the SOGIE Center’s QIC-LGBTQ2S partnered with four Local Implementation Sites: Allegheny County, Michigan, Cuyahoga County, and Prince George’s County. Together, the sites, program purveyors, and the QIC-LGBTQ2S developed, implemented, and evaluated several best practices and programs. The result of the five-year effort was the development and refinement of 9 manualized and evidence-informed interventions that can now be replicated in similar settings.
- Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development - Selects, implements, rigorously evaluates, and disseminates knowledge about innovative and promising workforce improvement strategies to address pervasive child welfare workforce challenges and improve child and family outcomes.
Former Quality Improvement Centers
- Quality Improvement Center on the Representation of Children in the Child Welfare System - Collects, develops, and communicates knowledge on child representation that presents the strengths and weaknesses of methods of representing children, promotes consensus on the role of the child's legal representative, and provides an analysis of how legal representation for the child might best be delivered. The 2022 Judicial, Court, and Attorney Measures of Performance (JCAMP) relied on findings of this QIC in many ways. See, https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/systemwide/courts/reform/jcamp/ .
- The Quality Improvement Center on Domestic Violence in Child Welfare - Advances an Adult & Child Survivor-Centered Approach across multiple sectors that integrates practice wisdom and research from child welfare, domestic violence, child development and the science of trauma and resilience in families and communities.
- Quality Improvement Center on Differential Response in Child Protective Services - Generates knowledge on effective practice models of differential response in child protective systems and supports the infrastructure at state and local levels to improve outcomes for children and families referred for suspected maltreatment.
- Quality Improvement Center on Early Childhood - Generates and disseminates robust evidence and new knowledge about program and systems strategies that contribute to child maltreatment prevention and optimal child development.