Helping Adult Learners Find Careers and Economic Opportunity While most jobs require some college or postsecondary training, nearly 23 million Americans older than age 25 lack a high school degree or equivalent credential. The good news? Career pathway programs — which combine adult learning and job training — can help. Read More
Applying a Results Framework to Social Program Evaluation in San Antonio Researchers at the University of Texas San Antonio are using their work with the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Expanding the Bench in Performance Management Initiative to apply results-based methods to evaluating a variety of efforts in San Antonio. Read More
New Approach to Child Protection Investigations Yields Encouraging Results Ohio’s Cuyahoga County Division of Children and Family Services has been working to paint a clearer picture of how child welfare cases are moving through its system. Its metaphorical paintbrush for this work? Continuous Quality Improvement reviews. Read More
Reflections on Applying Principles of Equitable Evaluation The Annie E. Casey Foundation enlisted WestEd to conduct four evaluations over a two-year period. This document revisits WestEd’s work and the authors’ broader experiences conducting research and evaluation studies. Along the way, readers will explore three basic questions: What is equitable evaluation? How can it be applied? And: What have the authors learned about implementing equitable evaluation principles? Read More
Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative Scale-Up Study of Four States This report identifies critical success factors for four states — Indiana, Massachusetts, Missouri and New Mexico — that accelerated the spread of the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative® across their local jurisdictions. Read More
Using Integrated Data to Identify and Solve Housing Conditions that Harm School Readiness A Cleveland Case Study This case study tells how shared data can be used to identify educational risk factors and then develop and implement solutions for addressing them. Read More
Lessons From the Field: Evaluating a Two-Generation Approach to Breaking the Cycle of Poverty The difficult work of delivering integrated services to low-income families has gained some essential guideposts. The source? A newly published evaluation of Casey’s Family Economic Success - Early Childhood Education (FES-ECE) initiative. Read More
A Blueprint for Embedding Evidence-Based Practices in Child Welfare Informed by best practices in implementation science, this report outlines a process for integrating evidence-based and evidence-informed programming into child welfare systems. Read More
Expanding the Bench Makes a Move The Annie E. Casey Foundation has tapped Change Matrix to take the helm of two Expanding the Bench efforts aimed at increasing diversity in research and evaluation. Read More
Watch Our Webinar: Adapting Evidence-Based Programs in Child Welfare In this webinar on implementing evidence-based practices in child welfare from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the William T. Grant Foundation, learn how child welfare leaders and program developers can work together to adapt an evidence-based approach to the specific needs of a state. Read More
