Office of Colorado's Child Protection Ombudsman

Buyer seeks a third-party evaluator to conduct an audit of Colorado's Family Safety Assessment and Family Risk Assessment tools. The evaluator will examine the tools' effectiveness, consistency, and impacts on various communities. The project aims to enhance child welfare system tools and improve outcomes for children and families. The evaluation must include perspectives from lived experts and child welfare professionals, and provide recommendations for improvement.

• 11/4/2024 - Questions Deadline
• 11/11/2024 - Proposal Due Date
• 1/15/2025 - Third-party Evaluator Selection
• 3/1/2026 - Evaluation and Report Completion

• Conduct audit of Colorado Family Safety Assessment and Family Risk Assessment tools
• Identify tools and resources to ensure consistent assessment implementation
• Examine impacts of geography, race, and ethnicity on assessment use
• Evaluate best practices for sharing assessments with families and legal professionals
• Study inter-rater reliability of Colorado Family Safety Assessment
• Examine assessment for domestic violence and recommend best practices
• Include perspectives of child welfare professionals and lived experts
• Research benefits and drawbacks of other risk and safety assessment tools
• Analyze data from Colorado state automated child welfare system (Trails)
• Provide recommendations to enhance effectiveness and operability of assessment tools