Designing Child Welfare 2.0: Not easy. Just vital.
In our book Anna, Age Eight , my co-author Katherine Ortega Courtney and I devoted a chapter to how we can and must design Child Welfare 2.0. The model each state currently uses comes from one developed more than 100 years ago. Our experience working with child welfare systems, setting up continuous quality improvement programs (CQI), has taught us that while some systems are thoughtfully resourced and getting results, many face incredible challenges because of out-of-date protocols, old...