Measuring Child Welfare Outcomes: A Compendium of Standardized Instruments

The Children’s Bureau awards discretionary grants to encourage the development and implementation of innovative child welfare services and practices that improve permanency, safety, and well-being for children and families.

Grantees focus on a range of issues, from recruiting foster parents to addressing trafficking within the child welfare population, often while working toward similar outcomes.

This document summarizes instruments grantees have used to measure changes in outcomes at four levels: child, caregiver, family, and organization.