Quality Parenting Initiative (QPI)

Improving Timely Health Care for Children and Youth in Foster Care: How to Build a Family of Measures

Measuring progress is essential to successful quality improvement (QI) initiatives. There are three types of measures in quality improvement QI: outcome measures, process measures, and balancing measures. Taken together, these three measure types make up a family of measures. Below … Read More

Timely Health Care for Children and Youth in Foster Care: Getting Started on Quality Improvement

This video provides an overview of how Medicaid and child welfare agencies can start a QI project to improve timeliness of health services for children and youth entering foster care. The Model for Improvement is built on small tests of … Read More

QPI

What Makes a QPI Site Successful?

WHAT MAKES A QPI SITE SUCCESSFUL?1. Elements of QPIa. Commitment to parenting that meets the individual developmental needs of each child in the foster care system in view of his or her unique characteristics and circumstance including his or her history of … Read More