Get the Data, Share the Data, Use the Data Recommendations from the three-state Child Welfare and Education Learning Community (CWELC) project

This summarizes challenges and opportunities, as well as actions, to enhance educational and health outcomes for children and families. This archival publication may not reflect current scientific knowledge or recommendations. Current information available from the University of Minnesota Extension: https://www.extension.umn.edu.This archival publication may not reflect current scientific knowledge or recommendations. Current information available from the University of Minnesota Extension: https://www.extension.umn.edu.The Child Welfare and Education Learning Community (CWELC) project strives to address some of these shared challenges and bridge these two systems. Practitioners, policymakers, and researchers from child welfare and education systems in Illinois, Minnesota, and North Carolina have worked together for two years to address shared and unique challenges facing child welfare and education systems in the three states. This report summarizes challenges and opportunities identified by the group and recommends actions to better promote data gathering, sharing and use to enhance educational and health outcomes for children and families.William T. Grant Foundation, CWELC members, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke Universit