National Partnership for Child Safety Announces First Insights from Data Sharing among Participating Child Welfare Jurisdictions
The National Partnership for Child Safety (NPCS), a quality improvement collaborative with a mission to improve child safety and prevent child maltreatment fatalities, provided its 2024 year-end update on partnership activities related to strengthening families and promoting safety science and innovations in child welfare. To facilitate data-sharing across jurisdictions, NPCS incorporates tools such as the Safe Systems Improvement Tool (SSIT) which is a retrospective critical incident review tool designed for use in child welfare systems. Learnings from aggregated SSIT data can be leveraged into systems-level quality improvement as part of an evidence-based safety science approach to enhancing child safety. Additional data analysis opportunities are available through the NPCS safety culture survey , which measures workforce domains, such as emotional exhaustion, psychological safety , stress recognition, and workplace connectedness , which can all contribute to team members’ decis...