Improving Children's Lives: Balancing Investments in Prevention and Treatment in the Child Welfare System

Jeanne Ringel,Dana Schultz,Joshua Mendelsohn,Stephanie Holliday,Katharine Sieck,Ifeanyi Edochie,Lauren Davis

Improving Children's Lives: Balancing Investments in Prevention and Treatment in the Child Welfare System

2017

Jeanne Ringel
Dana Schultz
Joshua Mendelsohn
Stephanie Holliday
Katharine Sieck
Ifeanyi Edochie
Lauren Davis

RAND researchers' model of the child welfare system shows that increasing prevention while also increasing treatment improves system experience and long-term outcomes while paying for itself by reducing lifetime child welfare system costs.

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Economic growth
Business
Welfare
Public economics
Foster care
welfare system

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