Idaho Child Welfare System Performance Evaluation

On January 31, 2017, the Idaho Legislature Office of Performance Evaluations published this child welfare system evaluation report. The report identifies gaps in four key areas of the child welfare system system that prevent the state's child welfare system from performing at the high level of expectation set through policy making and program design processes. The four key gaps include

Out-of-home placements
Workload challenges
Organizational culture
Systems approach

Evaluation and research findings indicate that addressing the complex and entrenched problems of child welfare requires a systems approach with ongoing system-level accountability, collaboration, and oversight . . .