Question: I am curious about the number of attorneys needed for the study. In your pre-analysis for the RFP, did you identify how many jurisdictions around the country might have more than 100 attorneys?

Answer: Yes, we are aware that there are a limited number of jurisdictions that meet this criteria but there are some and the numbers are important for us to be able to detect impact of the intervention.

Question: The RFP indicates that the partner must have "room to improve" and have not implemented the ABA standards. While many jurisdictions might be committed to improvement, some are already at a high level of practice. Are these jurisdictions not eligible?

Answer: Jurisdictions that have already substantially implemented the ABA Best Practice standards would not be eligible to be an R&D site for the QIC-Child Rep project because we are trying to measure the impact of implementing these best practices. If they are already implemented then there is nothing for us to measure. There are some jurisdictions that have laws that reflect the ABA 1996 Standards but the law in practice falls significaly short. Such jurisdictions would be eligble.

Question: Do you imagine that jurisdictions that use a case management system already (such as JCATS), and are contracted to use that system, would have to do double data entry?

Answer: As long at the case management system that is in place collects the variables we are interested in looking at, and we were given assurances of access to those data, we would not require the site to use the QIC-Child Rep case management system.