2017•RAND Corporation eBooksRequires access

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

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

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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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Key concepts: Welfare, Welfare system, Term (time), Public economics, Economics, Business, Market economy, Quantum mechanics