The Children’s Bureau funded studies in 2014 and 2020 to evaluate the services of the Child Welfare Capacity Building Collaborative. Below are documents created through the evaluation, including findings, an overview of the study, a description of what organizational capacity is and how to measure it, and more.
- Building Capacity in Child Welfare: Findings From a Five-Year Evaluation of the Capacity Building Collaborative - Report
- Building Capacity in Child Welfare: Findings From a Five-Year Evaluation of the Capacity Building Collaborative - Executive Summary
- Capacity Building Projects: The Role of Tailored Services in Fostering Reforms in Child Welfare Systems
- Capacity Building Service Strategies: A Review of the Literature
- Cross-Center Evaluation Design: Capacity Building Collaborative
- Design for the Cross-Center Evaluation of the Child Welfare Capacity Building Collaborative, 2020—2025
- How Can Organizational Capacity be Measured?
- How Do We Build Organizational Capacity in Child Welfare?
- Incorporating Lived Experience Into Child Welfare Capacity Building
- Virtual Communities of Practice in Child Welfare: A Review of the Literature
- What Is Organizational Capacity and What Does It Look Like in Child Welfare?
From 2009-2014, the Children’s Bureau funded an evaluation of two groups of Training and Technical Assistance providers —regional Child Welfare Implementation Centers (ICs) and National Child Welfare Resource Centers (NRCs). These 15 centers provided varying levels of T&TA to States, Tribes and territories. This section includes a final report detailing the study’s findings and implications, an Executive Summary, two-page synopsis of the report, a series of four tip sheets for T&TA providers and recipients, and a series of four evaluation briefs.
- Supporting Change in Child Welfare: An Evaluation of Training and Technical Assistance — Report
- Supporting Change in Child Welfare: An Evaluation of Training and Technical Assistance — Executive Summary
- Supporting Change in Child Welfare: An Evaluation of Training and Technical Assistance — Evaluation Overview
Capacity Building Center for States Final Evaluation Report Fiscal Years 2015—2019 Executive Summary
This executive summary presents findings from an evaluation of the services delivered by the Capacity Building Center for States, which is funded by the Children’s Bureau, from fiscal years 2015 through 2019.
- Capacity Building Center for States Final Evaluation Report: Fiscal Years 2015—2019: Executive Summary
- Making a Difference for Public Child Welfare Agencies: Key Findings From the Final Evaluation Report: Fiscal Years 2015—2019
Tip Sheets for Training and Technical Assistance Providers and Recipients
A series of four tip sheets summarizes implications from the 2015 report Supporting Change in Child Welfare: An Evaluation of Training and Technical Assistance. Intended for T&TA providers and recipients, these one-page tip sheets offer strategies for delivering or receiving T&TA based on key evaluation findings, themes, or implications.
- Getting the Most Out of Training and Technical Assistance
- Delivering Effective Training and Technical Assistance
- The Role of T&TA in Building a Child Welfare Agency’s Capacity to Use Data
- Supporting Systems Change in Child Welfare: Tips for T&TA Providers
Evaluation Briefs
A series of four evaluation briefs summarizes evaluation methods and findings from the 2015 report Supporting Change in Child Welfare: An Evaluation of Training and Technical Assistance. These four-page briefs highlight the approach and issues around measuring the effectiveness of T&TA delivered to child welfare agencies and courts. The briefs may be of interest to evaluators, program administrators, and T&TA providers and recipients.
- Using Data on Training and Technical Assistance for Evaluation and Management
- Collaboration Among T&TA Providers
- Evaluation of Implementation and Outcomes
- Evaluation Methodology
The Use of Implementation Projects to Support Change in Child Welfare - This topical paper summarizes (1) T&TA, implementation, and evaluation strategies to support systems change in child welfare agencies, and (2) related outcomes.
Bibliographies
The 2015 report Supporting Change in Child Welfare: An Evaluation of Training and Technical Assistance is one of many publications stemming from the Children’s Bureau’s T&TA centers. These bibliographies document materials written by and about the NRCs and ICs.