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Project Description

Capitated Payment: (Statewide) The intervention will test different payment systems (fixed case rate vs. fee-for-service) to enable private providers to offer enhanced services to families involved with family preservation services, and reintegration services to families with children in foster care. The evaluation includes random assignment of eligible children to experimental (fee for service) and control (fixed case rate) groups at a ratio of 1:10. There will be two experimental groups -- one for family preservation cases and one for foster care. Each group will have 400 cases. Major goals include decreasing foster-care placements among families with substance-abuse problems, decreasing average length of stay and increased returns home within six months of placement, reducing substantiated CA/N within 12 months of reintegration, and reduce re-entry rates, increasing stability through fewer moves while in care and increase percentage of children placed with siblings, and increasing parent and youth (16 years or older) satisfaction with services.

Project duration: Jan 1999 - Jan 2004

Sites studied include Kansas

Sample Characteristics and Sites Studied

Approximately 8,800 children in foster care.

Recent Findings in Brief

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