Evaluation of Differential Response in Ohio: Challenges in Implementing a Randomized Control Tria

In 2010, the Quality Improvement Center on Differential Response (QIC-DR), funded by the Children’s Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, began a three-site study of the impact of differential response (DR) on outcomes for children in the child welfare system. Using a randomized controlled trial methodology, this study seeks to replicate and extend previous research, and to contribute materially to the question of whether DR is an evidence-based practice (i.e., an effective intervention with certain child welfare populations). Ohio is one of three sites participating in the study, through a coalition of six counties.

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