Director of the Bay Area Social Services Consortium
Sarah Carnochan is the Director of the Bay Area Social Services Consortium. Dr. Carnochan's research has investigated social service delivery systems, organizational change and learning, evidence informed practice, and policy implementation in social service organizations. Specific projects have examined government-nonprofit contracting in the human services, family stabilization services for CalWORKs participants, and the development of supports for evidence informed practice in child welfare agencies. As an attorney and a social worker she has worked with nonprofit legal services,...
Research Specialist, California Child Welfare Indicators Project
Stephanie Cuccaro-Alamin is a Research Specialist with the California Child Welfare Indicators Project (CCWIP) at Berkeley Social Welfare.
Her research interests include child welfare services, poverty and the use of linked administrative data for program evaluation and policy research.
Expanded Publications
Putnam-Hornstein, E., Foust, R., Cuccaro-Alamin, S., Prindle, J., Nghiem, H.T, Ahn, E. & Palmer, L. (2022). A Population-Based Study of Mental Health Diagnoses and Child Protection System Involvement among Medicaid-Insured Children. Journal of...
Associate Specialist, California Child Welfare Indicators Project
Joe Magruder serves as an associate specialist for Berkeley Social Welfare's California Child Welfare Indicators Project (CCWIP).
Dr. Magruder is a social work researcher who specializes in analyzing longitudinal administrative data to understand children’s experience in the child welfare system. He is especially interested in the long-term effect of child welfare decisions on children’s lives.
Dr. Magruder came to Berkeley after working as a child welfare program specialist for the California Department of Social Services for several decades where he focused on the system...
Research Specialist, California Child Welfare Indicators Project
Emily Putnam-Hornstein is the John A. Tate Distinguished Professor for Children in Need at the University of North Carolina School of Social Work at Chapel Hill, a Distinguished Scholar at USC where she co-directs the Children's Data Network, and a Research Specialist with the California Child Welfare Indicators Project. Emily's current research focuses on the application of epidemiological methods to improve the surveillance of non-fatal and fatal child abuse and neglect. Her analysis of large-scale, linked administrative data has provided insight into where scarce resources may be most...
Principal Investigator, California Child Welfare Indicators Project
Daniel Webster is a project scientist and principal investigator of the California Child Welfare Indicators Project (CCWIP). The project carries out quarterly production and statewide dissemination of federally and state-mandated performance measures that support the California Outcomes and Accountability System at the state and county level.
Dr. Webster has provided technical assistance for more than a decade in the understanding and use of longitudinal data to promote system improvement to public child welfare agencies in jurisdictions across the country. He served as the...
Dr. Wiegmann's many years of experience includes the last nine years with CCWIP and other research projects, analyzing linked and unlinked administrative data to examine a number of different child welfare phenomena. In prior years with CCWIP, she has taken on a number of leadership roles — planning and managing research projects; collaborating with partnered research agencies;...
