Striving for Excellence: Expanding Performance Based Contracting to Residential, Independent Living and Transitional Living Programs in Illinois

January 1, 2008 The Striving for Excellence project is a partnership between the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (public child welfare agency), the Child Care Association of Illinois (private child welfare agency association), and the Children and Family Research Center of the University of Illinois (project evaluator). Its overarching goals are to: improve outcomes for children and youth; build on success in foster care and kinship care case management; enhance the existing public-private partnership in delivery of child welfare services; address Child and Family Services Review (CFSR) deficiencies in Permanency and Well-Being; and inform the field . . .