Evaluators commonly struggle with defining and measuring child welfare outcomes. The Federal Child and Family Service Reviews (CFSR) specify child welfare outcome goals in three areas: safety, permanency, and well-being. However, considerable variation in local context leads to different approaches to operationalizing specific outcomes within the CFSR areas
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HSRI KN Collaboration Presentation, Nov 2011 AEA.ppt
Department of Education undertook the development of a national outcomes measurement system for early childhood programs serving children with disabilities. This system, built around state-reported data on child progress for three outcomes, has been well received by key stakeholders
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Power Point Presentation & handout from Session 299 "Use of Fidelity Scores in Measuring Outcomes for Children Involved in the Child Welfare System" - AEA 2010 #'Child #Welfare' #'Fidelity' #HumanServicesEvaluation #'Outcomes' #2010Conference
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The overall goal was to enhance community and government systems, improving service access and outcomes of children and their kinship caregivers. The evaluators developed a mixed methods evaluation design to assess project implementation and outcomes at both the family and systems level
Case Study of a Kinship Navigation Demonstration Grant in Arizona_10-29-2016.pdf
The purpose of this research was to evaluate effectiveness, efficiency and result of management and performance in national policies and strategies for child development by mixed methods evaluation. The evaluation results showed that: context-provincial officers ran the operation as general work...
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Nemours Health and Prevention Services, with support from a USDA Team Nutrition grant, developed an innovative training for Delaware childcare providers on the changing obesity-related regulations for childcare settings. A multi-component, mixed-methods evaluation was used to first create and...
AEA 2011 Panel Presentation_FINAL.pdf
The context of providing and evaluating social service programs is complex, including a set of stakeholders with differing and potentially conflicting values. As evaluation is most often used to determine "quality, value, or importance" of a social service program, it is appropriate to ask ...
Love_ValueConflictswnSocialServices1.doc