We are greatly saddened to share news of the passing of Toni Aleman. The hallmarks of Toni’s professional career were deep loyalty and the desire for true connection with everyone she worked with. She was continually eager to learn and grow, always with the goal of being helpful and supporting people to do their best…
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Evident Change is pleased to announce that Wendy Henderson, JD, will join the organization as Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer on August 1, 2026. In this role, Henderson will lead product development and innovation, ensuring that Evident Change’s impact-driven approach meets the evolving needs of communities and client agencies. Henderson is a human services executive…
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Evident Change staff Heather Meitner, Director of Family and Community Engagement Strategies, and Emerson Ives, Senior Program Specialist, will present the workshop “Reimagining Reporting With Community Decision Support Technology: San Diego’s Story” at the APHSA National Human Services Summit, June 14–17, in Arlington, VA. Communities everywhere are grappling with how to respond to concerns about…
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The American Probation and Parole Association 2024 National Standards for Community Supervision call for the use of locally validated risk and needs assessments. But what does local really mean—and how do you know if an assessment is truly valid for your agency? Many agencies rely on tools validated elsewhere, assuming “close enough” is good enough….
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Structured Decision Making® (SDM) assessments and predictive risk models (PRM) offer different and complementary benefits for child welfare systems. A new paper from Evident Change addresses how these models work and what they can accomplish together, as well as the potential harm and liability that can arise when the limitations of models aren’t accounted for….
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We are excited to embark on a new project with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) Division of Public Health to improve adult protective services (APS) delivery in Wisconsin. DHS was recently awarded one of nine new grants through the Administration on Community Living’s Elder Justice Innovation Grants program. DHS will focus on two…
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If you are attending the CQI Statewide Conference for Child Welfare and Probation, April 14–16 in Sacramento, we warmly invite you to attend “Prioritizing CQI in the New CWS-CARES World: A SafeMeasures Sneak Peek.” In this informative workshop, Evident Change staff Amy Koslick and Stephanie Hillery will discuss how SafeMeasures® will support continuous quality improvement for the California Department of Social Services and California…
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Outgoing Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot penned an op-ed for the Dallas Morning News in which he shared positive reforms in youth justice, crediting Evident Change’s 2023 evaluation effort led by Dr. Erin Espinosa. The follow-up report, published last month, shows that Dallas County’s detention population has dropped by roughly 24% and the time…
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When a young person ends up in a group home or juvenile facility, it’s a common assumption that it’s because of what they did. But new research tells a different story. Director of Research Dr. Erin Espinosa and Evident Change board member Dr. Monica Chiarini Tremblay are among the authors of a new paper published…
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Evident Change has released its follow-up to a 2023 evaluation of the juvenile justice case disposition process in Dallas County, Texas. Disposition is the point in a juvenile court case where the probation department or a judge decides the most appropriate outcome for the young person. Outcomes range from dismissing charges, placing the youth on…
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