Data Mining Strategies to Refine Target Populations and Inform Intervention Selection: Sharing Experiences From the Permanency Innovations Initiative

The Permanency Innovations Initiative (PII) is a federal demonstration project designed to build evidence to improve outcomes for children in foster care who face the most serious barriers to finding permanent homes.

This presentation reports on the role of data mining by PII grantees to—

• Confirm that the intervention matched the target population
• Identify the need for different or additional interventions to match the needs of the target population
• Identify the need to modify the target population
• Identify subpopulations that require either additional intervention activities or warrant tracking