Child Welfare Research Partnerships: Understanding Data Use Practices for Continuous Quality Improvement

The Child Welfare Research Partnerships (CWRP) opportunity is designed to fund 48-month cooperative agreements (with a 48-month budget period) to support partnerships among research organizations and title IV-E agencies, which include state and participating territories and tribes. The goal is to better understand emerging and promising approaches for generating, processing, and applying data evidence to support continuous quality improvement efforts (CQI). Supported research must include active collaboration throughout all phases of the project. The partnerships are intended to advance knowledge and build site specific capacity for generating data evidence that can address questions related to practice, outcomes, and/or system operations. ACF is particularly interested in understanding how title IV-E agencies and partner organizations are using or could use data collected in their existing information management systems to support decision-making related to system operations and/or program development/implementation and/or practice improvements intended to meet the needs of children and families.