Program Profile: Structured Decision Making (SDM)

This is a decision-support system designed to reduce subsequent abuse and neglect of children and expedite permanency for children who have been removed from home.

Evidence Rating: Promising | One study

Date:

This is a decision-support system designed to reduce subsequent abuse and neglect of children and expedite permanency for children who have been removed from home. The program is rated Promising. At the 12-month follow up, treatment group children experienced statistically significant higher rates of permanency status, compared with control group children. However, there were no differences between groups on rates of reentry to the foster care system after reunification.

A Promising rating implies that implementing the program may result in the intended outcome(s).

Date Created: July 17, 2024
Program Snapshot

Age: 0 - 19

Gender: Male, Female

Race/Ethnicity: White, Black, Other

Geography: Suburban Urban Rural

Setting (Delivery): Home

Program Type: Parent Training, Victim Programs, Wraparound/Case Management

Targeted Population: Children Exposed to Violence, Families, Victims of Crime

Current Program Status: Active

Program Director:
Raelene Freitag
Director
Children’s Research Center, a Division of the National Council on Crime & Delinquency

426 South Yellowstone Drive, Suite 250
Madison, WI 53719
United States

Phone: 608.831.1180
Website(link is external)
Email

Researcher:
Kristen Johnson
Senior Researcher
Children’s Research Center, a Division of the National Council on Crime & Delinquency

426 South Yellowstone Drive, Suite 250
Madison, WI 53719
United States

Phone: 608.556.2615
Website(link is external)
Email