
Placement Success Predictor: Using Site-Customized Machine Learning Models to Predict the Best Level of Care Placement for Each Child's Behavioral Health NeedsAward last edited on: 3/5/2025
Sponsored Program
SBIRAwarding Agency
NIH : NIMHTotal Award Amount
$1,331,141Award Phase
2Solicitation Topic Code
242Principal Investigator
Kimberlee Jean TrudeauCompany Information
Phase I
Contract Number: 1R43MH125486-01Start Date: 3/15/2021 Completed: 9/14/2022
Phase I year
2021Phase I Amount
$220,720Public Health Relevance Statement:
NARRATIVE Hundreds of thousands of children were confirmed victims of maltreatment in the United States in 2017; in that same year, of the 442, 733 children in foster care, approximately one out of 10 were placed in a group home or institution. Out-of-home placement decisions have extremely high stakes for the present and future well-being of these vulnerable children because some placements, and multiple placements, are associated with poor outcomes. The likelihood of success recommendations provided by the proposed "Placement Success Predictor" tool will help placement staff and administrators identify the best placement setting for each child using machine-learning statistics to predict the child's chances of success in each potential treatment setting. Terms: Child; 0-11 years old; Child Youth; Children (0-21); youngster; Child Care; Puericulture; Child Welfare; adolescent welfare; child well being; child wellbeing; Client; Communities; Decision Making; Endowment; Family; Federal Government; National Government; Foundations; Future; Grant; Group Homes; Health Personnel; Health Care Providers; Healthcare Providers; Healthcare worker; health care personnel; health care worker; health provider; health workforce; healthcare personnel; medical personnel; treatment provider; Justice; Kidney; Kidney Urinary System; renal; Medicine; Mental Health Services; Mental Hygiene Services; Methodology; United States National Institutes of Health; NIH; National Institutes of Health; Team Nursing; Patients; Personal Satisfaction; well-being; wellbeing; Probability; Receiver Operating Characteristics; Receiver Operator Characteristics; Recommendation; Residential Treatment; residential care; Resources; Research Resources; Risk; statistics; Testing; United States; Work; County; Treatment outcome; Health Care Costs; Health Costs; Healthcare Costs; Administrator; Healthcare; health care; Managed Care; Schedule; Data Set; Dataset; Caring; Custom; Friction; base; improved; Procedures; Brain imaging; brain visualization; Psychiatric therapeutic procedure; psychiatric care; psychiatric therapy; psychiatric treatment; Site; Area; Clinical; Phase; Medical; Adolescent; Adolescent Youth; juvenile; juvenile human; Individual; Databases; Data Bases; data base; satisfaction; Funding; depressed; sadness; Depressed mood; machine learned; Machine Learning; foster care; Source; Techniques; System; Country; Operative Procedures; Surgical; Surgical Interventions; Surgical Procedure; surgery; Operative Surgical Procedures; Surgeon; experience; success; Structure; prevention service; treatment program; Self-Report; Patient Self-Report; model-based simulation; models and simulation; Prevention; Reporting; gatekeeper; Gatekeeping; Admission; Admission activity; Modeling; behavioral health; Intervention Strategies; interventional strategy; Intervention; health organization; Provider; Institution; Data; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; SBIR; Small Business Innovation Research; Characteristics; follow-up; Active Follow-up; active followup; follow up; followed up; followup; Development; developmental; cost; virtual; predictive modeling; computer based prediction; prediction model; maltreatment; mistreatment; severe mental illness; chronic mental illness; persistent mental illness; serious mental disorder; serious mental illness; severe mental disorder; Outcome; Population; innovation; innovate; innovative; usability; prototype; support tools; improved outcome; predictive tools; care costs; care coordination; coordinating care; machine learning algorithm; machine learned algorithm; Home
Phase II
Contract Number: 2R44MH125486-02A1Start Date: 3/15/2021 Completed: 2/28/2026
Phase II year
2024Phase II Amount
$1,110,421Public Health Relevance Statement:
NARRATIVE Hundreds of thousands of children were confirmed victims of maltreatment in the United States in 2017. In that same year, of the 442,733 children in foster care, approximately one out of 10 were placed in a group home or institution. Out-of-home placement decisions have extremely high stakes for the present and future well-being of these vulnerable children because some placements, and multiple placements, are associated with poor outcomes. The likelihood of success recommendations provided by the proposed "Placement Success Predictor" tool will help placement staff and administrators identify the best placement setting for each child using machine-learning statistics to predict the child's chances of success in each potential treatment setting. Terms: <0-11 years old; Child Youth; Children (0-21); kids; youngster; Child; Puericulture; Child Care; adolescent welfare; child well being; child wellbeing; Child Welfare; Client; Decision Making; Family; Future; Grant; Group Homes; Justice; Kidney Urinary System; renal; Kidney; Medicine; Mental Health Services; Mental Hygiene Services; mental health care; mental healthcare; Methodology; United States National Institutes of Health; NIH; National Institutes of Health; Team Nursing; Patients; Personal Satisfaction; well-being; wellbeing; Probability; Recommendation; Residential Treatment; residential care; Resources; Research Resources; Risk; statistics; Testing; United States; Treatment outcome; Health Costs; Healthcare Costs; Health Care Costs; Administrator; health care; Healthcare; Managed Care; Youth 10-21; Youth; Data Set; Caring; customs; Custom; improved; brain visualization; Brain imaging; psychiatric care; psychiatric therapy; psychiatric treatment; Psychiatric therapeutic procedure; Site; Clinical; Phase; Adolescent Youth; juvenile; juvenile human; Adolescent; randomized, clinical trials; Individual; Data Bases; data base; Databases; Funding; tool; machine based learning; Machine Learning; programs; foster care; Source; Techniques; System; Operative Surgical Procedures; Operative Procedures; Surgical; Surgical Interventions; Surgical Procedure; surgery; Surgeon; success; Risk Adjustment; Structure; treatment program; Patient Self-Report; Self-Report; models and simulation; model-based simulation; Prevention; Reporting; Gatekeeping; gatekeeper; Modeling; behavioral health; health organization; Institution; Effectiveness; Data; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; SBIR; Small Business Innovation Research; Update; Characteristics; Development; developmental; cost; predictive modeling; computer based prediction; efficacy evaluation; determine efficacy; efficacy analysis; efficacy assessment; efficacy determination; efficacy examination; evaluate efficacy; examine efficacy; maltreatment; mistreatment; severe mental illness; chronic mental illness; persistent mental illness; serious mental disorder; serious mental illness; severe mental disorder; Outcome; Population; Quasi-experiment; Quasi-experimental analysis; Quasi-experimental approach; Quasi-experimental design; Quasi-experimental methods; Quasi-experimental research; Quasi-experimental study; Quasi-experimental technique; innovation; innovate; innovative; usability; prototype; flexibility; flexible; clinical decision-making; clinical predictors; support tools; predictive tools; care costs; care coordination; coordinating care; personalized predictions; individualized predictions; machine learning algorithm; machine learned algorithm; machine learning based algorithm; data curation; curating data; implementation barriers; barriers to implementation; implementation challenges; Home; homes; machine learning prediction; machine learning based prediction model; machine learning based predictive model; machine learning prediction model; machine learning model; machine learning based model