Slides and papers from recent presentations

Slides and papers from recent presentations You may view the slides or papers from recent presentations by Professor Usher and his collaborators by downloading the following files in Acrobat® PDF format (you can obtain the free Acrobat® Reader from Adobe). To view the animation incorporated into some presentations, click on the links shown below and use your mouse as indicated to move through the presentation:
	"Evaluating Family to Family," presented February 27, 2007, at Children 2007: Raising Our Voice for Children, National Conference of the Child Welfare League of America, Washington, DC.
	"Measuring Outcomes and System Performance in Child Welfare," presented January 6, 2005, at Strengthening Data Use and Analysis in Class Action Litigation, a conference sponsored by Children's Rights, Inc., and the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago.
	"Agency Policy and Community Context as Determinants of Placement Decisions in Child Welfare," presented August 25, 2004, at NAWRS 2004, the annual meeting of the National Association for Welfare Research and Statistics, Oklahoma City.
	"Introduction to Self-Evaluation in Family to Family," presented June 4, 2003, at the National Conference for Family to Family, Portland, Oregon.
	"Evaluation of the Title IV-E Waiver Demonstration in North Carolina," presented February 27, 2003, at the Seventh Annual Child Welfare Demonstration Projects Meeting, sponsored by the Children's Bureau, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Washington, DC.
	"Self-Evaluation in Making Connections," presented January 27, 2003, at Evaluating Making Connections: Cohort 2, sponsored by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Baltimore. High-resolution slide presentation optimized for later versions of Internet Explorer. For a full-screen display, click the screen icon in the lower right corner. Click the left key on your mouse to move through the animation. Click the right button to end the show. Lower-resolution slide presentation for use with Netscape and earlier versions of Internet Explorer.
	"Measurement Issues in the Child and Family Service Review Process," presented November 7, 2002, at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Washington, DC.
	“The Struggle for Outcome-Based Accountability in the Child Welfare System,” presented May 13, 2002, at the University of Pittsburgh, sponsored by the Office of Child Development and the School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh and the Heinz Foundation.
	"Why Self-Evaluation?," presented May 13, 2002, at a luncheon with the Interdisciplinary Fellows for Policy and Evaluation, sponsored by the Office of Child Development of the University of Pittsburgh and the Heinz Foundation.
	"Using Data to Drive Changes in Outcomes for Families and Children," presented September 6, 2001, at The Promise of Partnership, sponsored by the North Carolina Departments of Social Services Directors Association, Raleigh, NC.
	"Community-Based Accountability in Child Welfare," presented May 22, 2001, at The Promise of Partnership: Communities, Family Support, and Child Protection, sponsored by Family Support America, Inc., Jacksonville, Florida.
	"The Risk of Out-of-Home Placement at First Substantiation," presented April 26, 2001, at the 13th National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, sponsored by the Children's Bureau, Albuquerque, NM.
	"Using Data to Guide Policy and Practice: Self-Evaluation in Family to Family," presented May 3, 2001, at Technical Assistants' Meeting, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Baltimore.
	"Mid-Demonstration Report on the Evaluation of North Carolina's Title IV-E Waiver Demonstration Project," presented February 3, 2001, at the Annual Meeting of Title IV-E Waiver States, Children's Bureau, Washington, DC