Massachusetts Department of Social Services
DMA
assisted the Department of Social Services to design and plan
implementation of a tiered foster care continuum, improving the match
between special needs foster children and the competencies of their
foster parents. The project involved reviewing the available MIS data
on children currently in foster care, conducting a record review of a
random sample of cases and analyzing the results.
Outcomes: The
first foster care rate increase in ten years was approved and an
assessment process for foster children was developed to incorporate
tools for clinical screening and assessment.
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