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  • Child Welfare Placement Dynamics: 2008-2017

    This report analyzes long-term child welfare placement trends in Allegheny County from 2008 through 2017. The report gives an overview of the child welfare caseload during the decade, describes characteristics of children in placement, and looks at children’s placements: what type of placements were used, how long children stayed there, where they went after their

  • Developing Predictive Risk Models to Support Child Maltreatment Hotline Screening Decisions

    The Allegheny Family Screening Tool (AFST) is a predictive risk model designed to improve decision-making in Allegheny County’s child welfare system. The tool utilizes hundreds of data elements to predict the likelihood that a child referred for abuse or neglect will later experience a foster care placement. The AFST provides additional information – in conjunction

  • Allegheny County Data Warehouse

    The Allegheny County Data Warehouse brings together and integrates client and service data from a wide variety of sources both internal and external to the County. It was created by consolidating publicly-funded human services data (e.g., behavioral health, child welfare, intellectual disability, homelessness and aging) and, over time, expanded to include data from other sources.

  • Opioid-Related Overdose Deaths in Allegheny County: Report and Maps

    Allegheny County is experiencing opioid-related overdose rates higher than in the state and in the U.S. In 2016, 93 percent of overdose deaths in the County were opioid-related and 2016 represented the third consecutive year in which the number of fatal overdoses was higher than in any prior year. An increase in the presence of

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