SAS software provides three solutions to help social services agencies improve child well-being: SAS for Child Safety integrates data to assess child risk and prioritize cases; SAS for Child Outcomes Management analyzes service impact on child outcomes; and SAS for Child Support Services increases collections and reduces delinquency. By combining data from multiple sources and applying advanced analytics, the solutions aim to intervene proactively to ensure child safety, understand service effectiveness, and better manage child support cases.
How can you deliver real value with healthcare data analytics? Four things can help:
Tighten how you deliver information and insights.
Loosen the reins on who can be part of the conversation and contribute.
Create transparency into how data management and analytics works.
Paint a picture and tell a story with your insights.
...
And go do it! Don't just say you're going to do it.
Modern Healthcare 2014 Strategic Marketing Conference SlidesModern Healthcare
Thank you for joining us at the inaugural Strategic Marketing Conference, which took place Sept. 23 and 24 in Chicago. We hope you enjoyed the education, engaging in discussions and extending your professional networks.
Click here to view the program guide and agenda from the Strategic Marketing Conference:
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/assets/pdf/CH96416919.PDF
About the Conference:
Modern Healthcare's Strategic Marketing Conference is a two day educational conference that was held September 23 and 24, 2014 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago.
This year’s conference presented thought leaders in healthcare marketing who helped to guide healthcare marketers, focusing on consumer-driven, reform-led and economically necessary challenges. Modern Healthcare's Strategic Marketing Conference is an opportunity for healthcare marketing executives on the provider and supplier side to interact and collaborate on best practices. Throughout two days, the conference provides a unique opportunity for healthcare marketing executives and agencies representing providers, insurers, suppliers and advocacy groups to interact and collaborate on best practices.
Moving to Value Based Care – Leveraging advanced analytics to measure physici...LexisNexis Risk Solutions
Payment reform and emphasis on value-based care is forcing payers, ACOs, and Integrated Delivery Networks to look for ways through which physician performance can be evaluated and measured over time with the goal of creating highly efficient and effective physician networks. With more pressure and risk moving to physicians – they will expect fair measurement of quality against their peers. Join this webinar to understand the implications of value-based care as it relates to physician performance analysis and why the ability to effectively monitor physicians with less than acceptable cost performance and those with high-quality performance will be non-negotiable.
How can you deliver real value with healthcare data analytics? Four things can help:
Tighten how you deliver information and insights.
Loosen the reins on who can be part of the conversation and contribute.
Create transparency into how data management and analytics works.
Paint a picture and tell a story with your insights.
...
And go do it! Don't just say you're going to do it.
Modern Healthcare 2014 Strategic Marketing Conference SlidesModern Healthcare
Thank you for joining us at the inaugural Strategic Marketing Conference, which took place Sept. 23 and 24 in Chicago. We hope you enjoyed the education, engaging in discussions and extending your professional networks.
Click here to view the program guide and agenda from the Strategic Marketing Conference:
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/assets/pdf/CH96416919.PDF
About the Conference:
Modern Healthcare's Strategic Marketing Conference is a two day educational conference that was held September 23 and 24, 2014 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago.
This year’s conference presented thought leaders in healthcare marketing who helped to guide healthcare marketers, focusing on consumer-driven, reform-led and economically necessary challenges. Modern Healthcare's Strategic Marketing Conference is an opportunity for healthcare marketing executives on the provider and supplier side to interact and collaborate on best practices. Throughout two days, the conference provides a unique opportunity for healthcare marketing executives and agencies representing providers, insurers, suppliers and advocacy groups to interact and collaborate on best practices.
Moving to Value Based Care – Leveraging advanced analytics to measure physici...LexisNexis Risk Solutions
Payment reform and emphasis on value-based care is forcing payers, ACOs, and Integrated Delivery Networks to look for ways through which physician performance can be evaluated and measured over time with the goal of creating highly efficient and effective physician networks. With more pressure and risk moving to physicians – they will expect fair measurement of quality against their peers. Join this webinar to understand the implications of value-based care as it relates to physician performance analysis and why the ability to effectively monitor physicians with less than acceptable cost performance and those with high-quality performance will be non-negotiable.
Achieved excellent professional and technical skills via rich cross-functional exposure of 24+ years across the industry under multi-cultural environment in Financial Management, Meeting Plant KPI’s targets, strategy planning, pricing and contracting, control & compliance, risk management, Management Reporting, Cost management, Financial/Business Analysis, Budget and Forecast Planning & Monitoring and implementation of Agility Measurements according to economic scenarios. It further got enriched under Multi cultural environment and dealing people globally.
Performing Controllership functions with SAP FI/CO expertise. Passionate about simplifying process by leveraging technology. Experience in setting up Accounting, ERP implementation (SAP), Automating processes to facilities business decisions.
Exposed to best Corporate Governance Practices, gained broader experience in evaluating business risks, driving the business for profitable growth.
Children's Services Council of Broward County, Systemic Model of Preventioncscbroward
Research Analyst Laura Ganci and Program Specialist Melissa Stanley of the Children's Services Council of Broward County, hosted a webinar for the Florida Alcohol and Drug Abuse Association on Implementing a Collaborative Approach to Child Welfare.
The Children's Services Council of Broward County provides leadership, advocacy and resources necessary to enhance children's lives and empower them to become responsible, productive adults. To learn more, visit us online at www.cscbroward.org and on social media at www.facebook.com/cscbroward; www.twitter.com/cscbroward; and www.youtube.com/cscbroward
Achieved excellent professional and technical skills via rich cross-functional exposure of 24+ years across the industry under multi-cultural environment in Financial Management, Meeting Plant KPI’s targets, strategy planning, pricing and contracting, control & compliance, risk management, Management Reporting, Cost management, Financial/Business Analysis, Budget and Forecast Planning & Monitoring and implementation of Agility Measurements according to economic scenarios. It further got enriched under Multi cultural environment and dealing people globally.
Performing Controllership functions with SAP FI/CO expertise. Passionate about simplifying process by leveraging technology. Experience in setting up Accounting, ERP implementation (SAP), Automating processes to facilities business decisions.
Exposed to best Corporate Governance Practices, gained broader experience in evaluating business risks, driving the business for profitable growth.
Children's Services Council of Broward County, Systemic Model of Preventioncscbroward
Research Analyst Laura Ganci and Program Specialist Melissa Stanley of the Children's Services Council of Broward County, hosted a webinar for the Florida Alcohol and Drug Abuse Association on Implementing a Collaborative Approach to Child Welfare.
The Children's Services Council of Broward County provides leadership, advocacy and resources necessary to enhance children's lives and empower them to become responsible, productive adults. To learn more, visit us online at www.cscbroward.org and on social media at www.facebook.com/cscbroward; www.twitter.com/cscbroward; and www.youtube.com/cscbroward
Responsible Data for Children Training_PublicSlides_110922.pdfStefaan Verhulst
The Responsible Data for Children (RD4C) initiative—a collaboration between The GovLab and UNICEF to promote the more responsible handling of data for and about children—has spent much of 2022 developing ways to socialize and operationalize the principles that put the best interests of children and a child rights approach at the center of our data activities.. From publishing new case studies that provide detail on what a responsible data approach looks like in action to supporting UNICEF and UNHCR country offices in helping them implement a responsible data for children approach to their operations to expanding its offerings in different languages, we’ve sought to help organizations understand what responsible data for children means and how they can realize it in their day-to-day operations.
Today, RD4C is continuing this work with self-guided training. Based on the tutorials offered to UNICEF staff in early 2022, these slides are a resource for organizations seeking to understand ways to operationalize the RD4C principles and implement the RD4C tools.
Improve Outcomes for Children in Foster Care by Reforming Congregate Care Pay...Public Consulting Group
In child welfare, there is growing emphasis on keeping children at home, and when that isn’t possible, placing them with relatives or in other family-like settings. Secure attachments to consistent caregivers are critical for the healthy development of children and youth, especially for very young children.Congregate care placements are also significantly costlier than traditional foster care or kinship care placements.
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Conducting a Cost-Benefit Analysis
It is relatively easy to develop alternative solutions for any identified problem. You do have to be careful about leaping into what appears to be an obvious solution. You need to determine which identified alternative best meets the needs and expectations of the community. In this assignment, you will be identifying at least three potential alternatives to resolve the problem you identified in the first assignment. There are a number of factors you need to consider in conducting a policy analysis: realistic options, a cost-benefit analysis, and objectivity.
Realistic Alternatives
At times, you may notice people suggesting an alternative, which everyone knows will be unacceptable. The alternative is often added simply to provide an option that can be easily rejected, with the intention of guiding the decision-making in a specific direction. This should be considered unethical behavior in a public administrator. There will always be diverse views on how to move forward to resolve a problem, based on differing values and perspectives on the issue. You have to try to be objective, providing an unbiased view of how the community wishes to move forward, being open to an approach you might not necessarily support on a personal level. Additionally, you should always include the status quo as one of the alternatives. You might find, at certain times and with certain issues, the status quo might be the best we can hope for at the moment, and therefore it should be considered. Even if we know the status quo may be unacceptable, including it provides a benchmark to use as a contrast and comparison with the proposed alternatives, providing insights into how alternatives might support a more desirable outcome.
Cost-benefit Approach
The classical cost-benefit process emerged from the field of micro-economics. It focuses narrowly on financial costs. It requires finding a means to assign a dollar value to each alternative, and the alternative with the best cost-benefit ratio (i.e., benefits are greater than costs) is selected. Over time, a macro-economic model developed, which included the consideration of non-financial metrics tied to perceptions, values, and other non-monetary measures. You will still try to find an objective means to capture this for assessment, and you may integrate financial metrics such as those used in a micro-economic model. Whatever approach you develop, you will be expected to find objective means to define, measure, and weigh alternatives to determine which one best supports mission success.
Objectivity
It is all too easy to find your personal values affecting your analysis and evaluation of alternatives. It is important you understand and control for your personal values when assessing alternatives, providing an unbiased analysis.
For this assignment, provide a cost-benefit analysis of your proposed alternatives for addressing the problem you identified in the first assignment. The problems and.
This is for 2 discussions. Please see the attachment for instruction.docxkbrenda
This is for 2 discussions. Please see the attachment for instructions on the 2 discussions. Please use in-text citations and references to support your materials.
Discussion 1: Quantitative Metrics
In this discussion, consider the quantitative metrics you might use to assess success in addressing the problem you identified for your organization. The problems identified are in
Information from Discussion 1 and Information from Discussion 2
below. Consider what type of metrics might be used, as well as how you might collect that data. You might find that some of the data is already being collected, but not being used to measure programmatic efficacy. In other cases, you might find data is not being collected, so you might have to consider how to develop and implement a data collection and retention program along with developing whatever program your organizational decision-makers finally adopt to address the problem. Please remember that this is not about the alternatives. This is about the problem. Earlier in the course, you identified a specific problem. In your initial post to this discussion respond to the following:
· How would you measure that problem now, before the alternative is selected?
· How would you measure the problem issues at a later point, once the selected program has been in effect for some time, to determine if the program is achieving its outcome?
· What might be the potential result to your organization if you do not find a way to measure programmatic outcomes?
Please support your ideas with recent, scholarly sources that are properly cited and referenced in APA Style.
Discussion 2: Qualitative Metrics
In an earlier unit, there was a discussion of macroeconomic approaches to cost-benefit analysis. In essence, instead of focusing simply on fiscal measures, we might consider other metrics, including the perceptions of those involved. For your initial post, for the problem you identified earlier in the course, consider:
The problems identified earlier in the course are in
Information from Discussion 1 and Information from Discussion 2
below.
· Who might be primary, secondary, and tertiary stakeholders for the problem in your community?
· What perceptions might they bring to the discussion which would be of value in assessing the efficacy and efficiency of the program in addressing the problem?
· How might you determine the perspectives of these primary and secondary stakeholders before the program begins and after the program has been in effect for some time?
Please support your ideas with recent, scholarly sources that are properly cited and referenced in APA style.
Information from Discussion 1
The agency I intend to focus my efforts on is the Indiana Department of Child Services (DCS). Their mission is to engage with families and collaborate with state, local and community partners to protect children from abuse and neglect and to provide child support services (DCS Mission, Vision, and Values). I wa.
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Discussion 1: Quantitative Metrics
In this discussion, consider the quantitative metrics you might use to assess success in addressing the problem you identified for your organization. The problems identified are in Information from Discussion 1 and Information from Discussion 2 below. Consider what type of metrics might be used, as well as how you might collect that data. You might find that some of the data is already being collected, but not being used to measure programmatic efficacy. In other cases, you might find data is not being collected, so you might have to consider how to develop and implement a data collection and retention program along with developing whatever program your organizational decision-makers finally adopt to address the problem. Please remember that this is not about the alternatives. This is about the problem. Earlier in the course, you identified a specific problem. In your initial post to this discussion respond to the following:
· How would you measure that problem now, before the alternative is selected?
· How would you measure the problem issues at a later point, once the selected program has been in effect for some time, to determine if the program is achieving its outcome?
· What might be the potential result to your organization if you do not find a way to measure programmatic outcomes?
Please support your ideas with recent, scholarly sources that are properly cited and referenced in APA Style.
Discussion 2: Qualitative Metrics
In an earlier unit, there was a discussion of macroeconomic approaches to cost-benefit analysis. In essence, instead of focusing simply on fiscal measures, we might consider other metrics, including the perceptions of those involved. For your initial post, for the problem you identified earlier in the course, consider:
The problems identified earlier in the course are in Information from Discussion 1 and Information from Discussion 2 below.
· Who might be primary, secondary, and tertiary stakeholders for the problem in your community?
· What perceptions might they bring to the discussion which would be of value in assessing the efficacy and efficiency of the program in addressing the problem?
· How might you determine the perspectives of these primary and secondary stakeholders before the program begins and after the program has been in effect for some time?
Please support your ideas with recent, scholarly sources that are properly cited and referenced in APA style.
Information from Discussion 1
The agency I intend to focus my efforts on is the Indiana Department of Child Services (DCS). Their mission is to engage with families and collaborate with state, local and community partners to protect children from abuse and neglect and to provide child support services (DCS Mission, Vision, and Values). I want to address the overspending that Indiana’s DCS does every year. They are 100’s of millions of dollars over budget every year. I know this is not just a problem for Indiana, but e ...
MA& PA focuses on young parents' sheltering and mental health. Teenagers and young adults between 14 and 21 who are single, coupled, pregnant, or parenting confront difficulties like trauma and homelessness through direct services.
Best Practices For Nonprofits To Clean Up Their DatahumanataDATA
Nonprofits have a unique mission: to create a positive impact in their communities. Whether it’s providing healthcare, education, or addressing social issues, nonprofits are doing their best to create a better world.
Best Practices For Nonprofits To Clean Up Their Data
SAS for Child Well-Being
1. Solution Overview
SAS®
for Child Well-Being
Take a proactive rather than reactive approach to improving children’s lives
• Gain a unified child view.Create an integrated view of the child,
their family and their community with data from all available
sources – social services, foster care, education, health services,
child support enforcement, criminal justice systems and more.
• Accurately assess a child’s risk to keep children safer. Go
beyond traditional risk assessment tools by incorporating
quantitative analysis that can help improve child safety.Important
information is continually updated, and automated alerts notify
workers whenever established risk thresholds are breached so
they can intervene immediately to help keep children safe.
• Improve child outcomes. Get a clear picture of which services
children are receiving, and assess their impact on improving
child outcomes. Identify which service or combination of
services have the best chance of helping.
• Increase child support collection and reduce delinquency.
Provide workers and managers with timely information they
can use to proactively improve child support services. Increase
collections and reduce child support delinquency, and more
efficiently manage hundreds of thousands of cases every year.
Overview
Many children struggle to enjoy the quality of life they deserve and
suffer from abuse or maltreatment.Twenty-two percent of American
children live in poverty (an increase from previous years); more than
3 million reports of child abuse are made in the US each year
involving over 6 million children; we lose an average of four to seven
children per day due to child abuse and/or neglect-related deaths;
and 17.5 million children are served through child support services.
Despite good intentions,many government social services agencies
strugglewithinadequateresourcestosupportthechildrenwithwhom
they’re charged.We can’t continue to approach child well-being
challenges the same way and expect different outcomes.By using
advanced analytics solutions coupled with shared data,agencies can
improve outcomes by making better-informed decisions.
By sharing data that tracks the prevalent tendencies of delinquent
child support,workers can pinpoint factors that keep parents from
being able to pay,and provide them with services that can help them
better support their children.And if case workers can see an overall
risk score for each child based on complex interactions or risk factors,
they can intervene to keep the child safe before tragedies occur.
Investigators and child welfare professionals need better information
at their fingertips to help inform decision making on behalf of at-risk
children.Social services programs supporting children can operate
based on data and analytics to put people first and focus on
outcomes.
How SAS® Can Help
Data resides in information silos across and within government
agencies. Being able to connect this data to find trends and
patterns in a child’s situation and environment can make the differ-
ence between life and death.Safety and tragedy.Support or neglect.
With SAS® for Child Well-Being,you can ...
Solution Overview
2. The powerful combination of data management and analytics gives
workers and leaders the insights they need to intervene faster when
appropriate and deliver the right services to the right children and
families at the right time.
Integrating data and applying advanced analytical methods can help
child serving agencies triage cases and alert situations that might
result in negative outcomes.SAS delivers solutions that provide a
holistic view of a child or family across systems,score and rank cases,
and deliver automatic alerts to workers.
Our SAS for Child Well-Being offering is composed of three
solutions:
• With SAS for Child Safety, integrate data from a variety of
sources to identify key relationships and continually adjust child
risk scores.
• With SAS for Child Outcomes Management, gain insight into
the use and impact of services on enhancing child outcomes.
• With SAS for Child Support Services, examine timely, practical
information to increase collections and reduce delinquent
payments.
Together,these solutions can transform a social services organization
into efficiently helping those most in need,relieving burdened
employee workloads,and saving taxpayer money in the process.
We offer these broad,flexible solutions based on proven technolo-
gies designed to help child support agencies efficiently manage
hundreds of thousands of cases each year.
SAS® for Child Safety
Integrate data from case management systems with child-related
data from a variety of sources – social services benefits,education,
health care,law enforcement,criminal justice systems,etc.Then apply
advanced analytics to spot trends,uncover patterns and identify key
relationships.SAS for Child Safety uses proven predictive models to
calculate and continually adjust risk scores,and workers can use the
results to prioritize cases.An alert engine automatically notifies
workers when a child’s risk score is adjusted.With SAS for Child
Safety,you can:
• Use all available data to accurately assess each child’s risk.
• Help workers prioritize cases and intervene proactively to ensure
child safety.
• Use advanced social network analytics to identify individuals
associated with an at-risk child to help identify natural supports
and placement options.
• Information overload. Many agencies are data-rich, but
lack the tools to conduct meaningful analysis.Too much
data makes it hard to know which information is most
relevant to an individual case.
• Rigid and static risk assessment tools.Traditional risk assess-
ment tools lack quantitative capabilities – so they cannot rank,
segment or prioritize cases. Nor are they updated regularly or
implemented with fidelity.
• Information silos. Data about children and their relationships
with others is in many disparate systems, often of poor quality,
and in formats not conducive to analysis.
• Limited time and resources. Heavy workloads and ineffective
techniques prevent continuous monitoring of all information
on all at-risk children as well as maximizing staff and auditors’
time.
Challenges
Social
Services
Child Safety,
Foster Care,
Public Assistance
Education
Truancy, Special
Needs, Grades,
Proficiency
Health
Birth Vitals
Medicaid
Mental Health
Criminal
Justice
Court Records,
Incarceration,
Child Support
Maximize
Positive
Outcomes
Minimize
Negative
Outcomes
3. SAS® for Child Outcomes Management
Better understand what services children are receiving from state and
local governments,as well as nonprofit organizations.Then accurately
gauge their impact on improving child outcomes.SAS for Child
Outcomes Management applies advanced data management,
analytics and data visualization technology to child-related data
across a variety of programs,services and interventions.With this
solution,you can:
• Take a more targeted and insightful approach to using data
from a variety of state and local agencies in entirely new ways.
• Analyze outcomes to better understand how effective services
are and how big an impact they may have on a child’s situation.
• Determine which services or combination of services have been
most successful in the past and have the highest likelihood of
producing desired outcomes in the future.
SAS® for Child Support Services
Get useful,timely information that can help increase child support
collections and decrease delinquent payments.Using advanced data
management and predictive analytics,SAS for Child Support Services
enables agencies to provide workers and managers with timely,high-
quality information they can use to proactively improve program
outcomes.With this solution,you can:
• Quickly determine the most effective and efficient ways to
manage hundreds of thousands of cases every year.
• Identify and predict situations that might result in failure to pay.
• Ease the burden of caseload management by distinguishing
occasional irregularities in payment from a systematic refusal
to pay.
Case In Point: Orange County, CA
When parents don’t – or are unable to – meet their child support
obligations,social service agencies often have little recourse.
Jailing delinquent parents won’t help them pay their bills,and
the threat of jail could lead them to further avoid child support
staff – and their children.Rather than help the child,these efforts
can send a parent and their children into a poverty spiral.
California’s Orange County Child Support Services is trying
something different.It uses analytics to predict who is at high
risk of failing to pay support and identifies the factors that could
get the parent into compliance more effectively.This new
approachisdata-driven–basedonthecounty’sextensiveresearch
into the factors that help parents fulfill their obligations – and
sensitive.Their ultimate goal is to reduce the number of children
living in poverty.
Prior to using predictive analytics,caseworkers tried to figure
out how to help parents be in a better position to pay,but the
data was not easy to access.Staffers would poke through
dozens of screens to scrape together details on the parent that
might point to a solution.Could they use more education? Did
they need social services support themselves?
Steve Eldred,Director of Orange County Child Support
Services,says that predictive analytics,used in conjunction with
social safety net support tailored to the individual,can help the
agency find long-term solutions that help parents support their
children.It is an approach that he believes works particularly well
in areas like Orange County,where jobs are plentiful and wages
are decent – but the cost of living is high.Eldred’s team focuses
on finding ways to help noncustodial parents earn enough to
pay their child support.
Now,caseworkers can rapidly pinpoint factors that keep parents
from being able to pay child support, and then help them
get to the point where they can pay.The analytic approach
saves time and empowers caseworkers to help people make
changes that truly benefit their children.
“We start from the premise that almost all parents want to
support their children to the best of their ability. So let’s tailor
social support to enhance that ability. Our approach is to
concentrate on multigenerational poverty and look at the
long term rather than the short term.”
– Steve Eldred,
Director of Orange County Child Support Services
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