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Related Resources: Evaluating Prevention Programs
Examples of program evaluations and resources on evaluating the effectiveness of prevention programs.
Accountability Systems: Improving Results for Young Children (PDF - 2310 KB)
Finance Project (2002)
Key principles of effective accountability systems, the basic steps in developing an effective accountability system, and examples that illustrate a range of State and local accountability system approaches.
Assessing Parent Education Programs for Families Involved With Child Welfare Services: Evidence and Implications (PDF - 521 KB)
School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley (2006)
Provides outcome data generated from 70 of the most rigorously evaluated parenting education programs with families determined to be abusive, neglectful, or at risk of child maltreatment.
Building the Evidence for Circle of Parents® as a Model for Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect: Participant Characteristics, Experiences and Outcomes (PDF - 1480 KB)
Ounce of Prevention Fund of Florida
Prevention Brief, 1(1), 2007
Highlights the outcomes of the Circle of Parents® program based on evaluations of programs in Florida, Minnesota, and Washington.
Child Abuse Prevention: What Works?: The Effectiveness of Parent Education Programs for Preventing Child Maltreatment
Holzer, Bromfield, & Richardson (2006)
Provides a brief background on parent education, an exploration of the components of an effective parent education program, and information on evaluations conducted in Australia, Canada, and America.
Determining "What Works" in Social Programs and Social Policies: Toward a More Inclusive Knowledge Base
Brookings Institution (2003)
An argument for more flexible forms of evaluation or assessment that require experts and practitioners to hypothesize the links between actions and outcomes, prioritize actions, identify interim indicators of success, and pay more attention to the attributes of programs and the institutional contexts that are essential to success.
Evaluating Child Abuse Prevention Programs: Issues in Child Abuse Prevention (PDF - 167 KB)
Australian Institute of Family Studies (2000)
An overview of the current state of program evaluation as it is applied to the field of child abuse prevention, the extent to which empirical evaluation has been used, and the degree to which programs have been shown to be effective.
Evaluating Community-Based Initiatives Teleconference
American Academy of Pediatrics (2005)
Offers PowerPoint slides and audio files on evaluation research, a process for setting clear goals and objectives, ways to address significant evaluation challenges, and data collection and management techniques.
Evaluating Community Programs and Initiatives
University of Kansas Community Tool Box
An introduction to evaluation, operations in evaluating community interventions, evaluating comprehensive community initiatives, and using evaluation to understand and improve an initiative. Also see the evaluation WorkStation.
Evaluating the Process and Monitoring Outcomes
Promising Practices Network
Information on the importance of data collection for providing feedback on programs, how to define key outcomes, and general information on conducting both process and outcome evaluations.
Evaluating the Work of Parent Aides
Exchange Center of North Carolina
Ongoing efforts to evaluate the effectiveness of parent aide programs across the country.
Evaluation Techniques Series: Getting Past the Jargon
GrantCraft
A series of publications that explain the basics of different evaluation techniques, answer common questions about their use, and refer to literature on the technique.
Healthy Families America Research Findings
Key findings from Healthy Families program evaluations across the country.
Healthy Families America Research Practice Network: A Unique Partnership to Integrate Prevention Science and Practice
Galano & Schellenbach (2007)
In Healthy Families America Initiative: Integrating Research, Theory, and Practice
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Examines the lessons learned from a research to practice network fostering communication among academic researchers, community-based evaluators, and practitioners to integrate science-based prevention practices into practice settings.
Healthy Families America Self-Assessment Tool 2007 (PDF - 411 KB)
Prevent Child Abuse America (2007)
Evaluates programs based on best practice standards that define the Healthy Families model on 12 critical elements as well as governance and administration. Identifies policies, procedures, and practices necessary to implement the program.
Impacts of the Chicago Child-Parent Centers on Child and Family Development
Reynolds & Temple (2006)
In The Crisis in Youth Mental Health: Critical Issues and Effective Programs, Volume 4—Early Intervention Programs and Policies
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Presents evidence on the effectiveness of school-based early childhood intervention on short- and long-term child well-being. Cost-effectiveness of the program is also examined, as well as personal, family, and school factors that mediate the effects of program participation on long-term outcomes.
Implementing the Promoting the Healthy Development Survey (PHDS)
Commonwealth Fund (2006)
Comprehensive guidelines to State officials, physician practices, and health systems on how to implement the PHDS, a parent survey to assess and improve the quality of preventive and developmental care provided to young children.
Key Steps in Outcome Management
Urban Institute (2003)
Covers the necessary steps for nonprofit organizations to implement outcome management (also known as "managing for results"), including guidance on establishing an outcome-oriented measurement process and practices for using the information internally.
Looking Inside the "Black Box": A Methodology for Measuring Program Implementation and Informing Social Services Policy Decisions
Carrilio
Social Policy Journal, 4, 2006
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Offers a methodology for measuring implementation and demonstrates the effects of differential implementation in understanding program outcomes.
Managing for Outcomes: A Basic Guide to the Evaluation of Best Practices in the Human Services
Child Welfare League of America (2002)
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Basic guidance on program evaluation philosophies and procedures for human services managers.
Practical Program Evaluation: Examples From Child Abuse Prevention
Ford, Gilbert, Pietrzak, Ramler, & Renner (1990)
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Guide for program self-evaluation, including how to plan an evaluation, select a research design, and collect and analyze data.
Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect: An Evaluation of a Home Visitation Parent Aide Program Using Recidivism Data (PDF - 146 KB)
Harder
University of Nebraska at Omaha (2005)
Secondary and tertiary prevention of child abuse and neglect through an evaluation of a parent aide program.
The Program Manager's Guide to Evaluation: An Evaluation Handbook Series from the Administration on Children, Youth and Families
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This manual provides an overview of the evaluation process, with special considerations for programs funded by the Administration for Children, Youth, and Families (ACYF). The text describes why evaluations are important and explains each step of the process, whether an outside evaluator is used or the evaluation is being conducted by in-house staff. Topics include: purpose, cost, types of evaluation teams, selecting and managing outside contractors, organizational preparation for the evaluation, evaluation plans, data collection, analysis, and reports. In general, program managers should determine a purpose for the evaluation, consider evaluation needs when designing the program, be an involved role ...
Suggestions for Evaluating Parent Education Programs
Rader & Cooke (2005)
Provides a starting point for parent education program staff to think about evaluation in terms of how it can improve their current programming as well as demonstrate outcomes to decision-makers.
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