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The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation undertakes some research projects that cover multiple programmatic areas. These are included here.
Projects on this Topic
ACF Youth Demonstration Development Project, 2009-2013
OPRE launched the Youth Demonstration Development Project (YDD) in 2009 to systematically review the current field of research on youth development and successful transition to adulthood. The primary objective of YDD, which is being conducted for OPRE...
An Exploratory Study: Implications of Immigration Enforcement Activities for the Well-Being of Children in Immigrant Families, 2012-2014
The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE), in collaboration with the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has initiated this project to explore...
Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency (BIAS), 2010-2014
The purpose of the Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency (BIAS) project is to explore the application of behavioral economics principles to the programs and target populations of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF)...
Center for Early Care and Education Research: Dual Language Learners, 2009-2013
The Center for Early Care and Education Research: Dual Language Learners (CECER-DLL) is a cooperative agreement awarded by the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation to the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. The primary goal of the Center...
Child Care and Early Education RESEARCH CONNECTIONS, 1998-2013
Research Connections is a web-based, interactive database of research documents and public use data sets for conducting secondary analyses on topics related to early care and education...
Development of a Measure of Family-Provider Relationship Quality (FPRQ), 2010-2014
The goal of the FPRQ project is to develop a new measure to assess the quality of the relationship between families and providers of early care and education for children birth to 5 years of age...
Development of a Measure of the Quality of Caregiver-Child Interactions for Infants and Toddlers (Q-CCIIT), 2010-2013
The goal of this project is to develop a new measure that will assess the quality of child care settings, specifically the quality of caregiver-child interactions for infants and toddlers in non-parental care. The new measure will be sensitive to...
Enhanced Employment Services for Victims of Trafficking Demonstration, 2012-2014
The purpose of the Enhanced Employment Services for Victims of Trafficking Demonstration grant program is to examine the feasibility and benefits of providing enhanced employment services to pre-certified, foreign trafficking victims and other foreign...
Evaluation of the Head Start Designation Renewal System (DRS), 2012-2015
In the fall of 2011, the Office of Head Start (OHS) significantly expanded its accountability provisions with the establishment of the Head Start Designation Renewal System (DRS). In response to requirements in the Improving Head Start for School...
Head Start Graduate Student Research Program, 1998-2013
The Head Start Graduate Student Research grant program is designed to build research capacity in and knowledge of effective early childhood interventions with low-income children and families. The grant program does this by providing support for...
National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE), 2010-2014
The National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) will document the nation's current utilization and availability of early care and education (including school-age care), in order to deepen the understanding of the extent to which...
Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) Multi-Component Evaluation, 2011-2017
The Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) is one of multiple efforts at the Federal level to reduce teen pregnancy through the use of evidence-based programs. The goals of the PREP Evaluation are to document how programs funded through the...
Planning a Next Generation Evaluation Agenda for the John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program, 2011-2012
The John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program (CFCIP) was created following the passage of the Foster Care Independence Act (FCIA) of 1999 (Public Law 106-169). The program provides assistance to help youth currently and formerly in foster care...
Poverty, Inequality, and Mobility among Hispanic Populations, 2012-2013
The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) in collaboration with the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded funding to the National Poverty...
Research Development Project on Human Service Needs of LGBT Populations, 2012-2013
The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) in the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), in coordination with the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), is conducting a research needs assessment...
Study of Coordination of Tribal TANF and Child Welfare Services Grants, 2011-2013
The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) is undertaking a descriptive study to document the approaches and strategies utilized by tribal organizations awarded cooperative agreements under the Coordination of Tribal TANF and Child Welfare...
TANF/SSI Disability Transition Project, 2008-2011
Numerous studies have identified substantial overlap in families and individuals served by the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs. Over the past decade, as the TANF program has developed...
Tribal Research Center on Early Childhood under the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program and the Head Start Act's Head Start and Early Head Start Programs, 2011-2016
The Tribal Early Childhood Research Center (TRC) provides leadership and support to promote excellence in community-based participatory research and evaluation of Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV), Head Start, and Early Head...
Understanding the Child-Only TANF Caseload, 2010-2011
This grant to Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago is jointly administered by OPRE and ASPE. Its purpose is to document differences in state policies that affect child-only TANF cases, describe characteristics and dynamics of such cases, and...
Evaluation of 2010 Summer Subsidized Employment Activities for Youth, 2010-2011
OPRE jointly sponsored with the Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration (ETA) a study of subsidized summer 2010 employment opportunities for low-income youth operated with the TANF Emergency Fund offered as part of the American...
TANF and CCDF Research Synthesis, 2009-2012
The purpose of the TANF and CCDF Research Synthesis Project was to inform research planning and support evidence-based decision making related to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) programs...
