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Frontline Connections: A Quality Improvement Center to Improve
Child Protection Services in the Northwest.
• What is it?
• How?
• Project Timelines
• Selected Grantees!
• Frontline Advisory Group Members
• Frontline Connections Staff and Research Team
• Native Project Highlights,
FCQIC Project Summary, FCQIC Executive Summary
• Other Federal QIC's
For more information, contact
Dee Wilson wilsod@u.washington.edu
206-221-4278
What is it?
In partnership with the Children's
Bureau, the Frontline Connections Quality Improvement Center
(QIC) has designed
an initiative to develop the evidence base regarding effective
CPS services for African and Native American families..
This partnership between the federal
Children's Bureau and researchers and practitioners in
Oregon, Washington and Alaska
has invested in research projects to further what
we know about engagement of African American and Native American
families and kin and community involved with CPS due to neglect.
Funds have been awarded to projects that show the most promise
for:
1. Implementing an engagement strategy with African American
or Native American families their kin and communities who
are involved in the CPS system due to neglect
2. Measuring the effectiveness of an engagement strategy
3. Improving outcomes for African American and Native American
children involved with the CPS system
The QIC has funded
three projects at approximately $157,000 per
year for 3 ½ years.
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How?
The Center operates under a cooperative
agreement with the Children's Bureau of the federal Department
of Health
and Human Services. All program activities are operated
under the oversight of an eight person Advisory Group with
appointed representatives from each state's child protection
program as well as a community leader from the African
American Community and from tribal and off reservation
child welfare services.
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Project Timelines:
Grantees were selected on November 15th, 2002. Grantees will
initiate projects and finalize goals and objectives of
projects and evaluation plans by March 18th, 2003. Preliminary
evaluation information will be available in October 2003.
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