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State of Play – PRM in the US

Fred Wulczyn Center for State Child Welfare Data Chapin Hall University of Chicago

University of Chicago Chapin Hall Center for Children Center for State Child Welfare Data

Overview

• Allegheny County (Pennsylvania)
• Tennessee
• NYC
• Latent critique

University of Chicago Chapin Hall Center for Children Center for State Child Welfare Data

Allegheny County

• Two projects
• Screen in / screen out
• Hello Baby

University of Chicago Chapin Hall Center for Children Center for State Child Welfare Data

Tennessee

• Placement disruption
• Improving human decision making

University of Chicago Chapin Hall Center for Children Center for State Child Welfare Data

New York City

• Distinction between action vs. limited action
• What piece of information to collect next

University of Chicago Chapin Hall Center for Children Center for State Child Welfare Data

Latent Critique

• Provoked a thoughtful assessment of standards
• One vs many decisions
• How to make humans better decision-makers
• Feedback
• The myth of individualized decision-making
• The best evidence suggests that decisions are relative judgments
• Congregate care
• What is the quality of the science?
• False negatives – a failure of the model or actions taken
• Evidence-use paradigm