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Protect MiFamily

Protect MiFamily is a demonstration program where the closely monitoring the outcomes and satisfaction. This
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is information has not yet been shared. Child and Family

Program 100

Outcomes 80 75%
60
1,519 40 Target Target Target
55%
47%
20
80%
80%
80%
Children will not Children will have Children will have an
Persons Served be removed by improved well-being as increase in protective
CPS/DHHS during evidenced by DECA factors, as evidenced by
the intervention. (assessment) score. the PFS assessment.

This program is being evaluated by an independent company engaging and developing a rapport, families are more willing to
through the DHHS, and benchmarks and assessment tools are discuss challenges later in the intervention. This is affecting the
designed by the evaluators, in conjunction with DHHS. The per- scoring of the assessments, and has the appearance that fami-
centage is scored using assessment tools at different parts of the lies are not doing as well as they were when they came into the
intervention. Staff has learned that families are not as forthcom- program. This discrepancy is being reviewed with DHHS and the
ing about issues during the initial assessment. However, after evaluators.

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