OPRE Insights Blog

Reexamining Our Work to Uncover Opportunities to Advance Equity

OPRE is engaged in several efforts to support the implementation of the Executive Order On Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government within the…

Identifying and Mapping State and Local Coordinated Services Approaches

To promote children’s healthy development, families need supports such as health care, nutritious food, housing, and high quality early care and education (ECE). Programs that provide these services often operate in…

Celebrating Juneteenth

We are reflecting on how we can learn from the history of Juneteenth as OPRE works to incorporate a race equity approach into our research, evaluation, and data work. Juneteenth is an annual holiday commemorating the…

Honoring Fathers by Elevating Their Voices, Leveraging their Strengths, and Embracing their Diversity

This Father’s Day, OPRE celebrates the unique and invaluable contributions of fathers and father figures to the healthy development of their children, their family’s overall well-being, and the vitality of their…

Celebrating One Year of OPRE Insights

This week, the OPRE Insights Blog turns one year old! We launched OPRE Insights on May 28th, 2020, announcing that we had a new way to share what we were doing and…

Building ACF Evidence Capacity with Evaluation and Monitoring 101

ACF strives to be a learning organization with a culture of continuous improvement. The goal of this training is to strengthen this capacity by helping agency staff better understand how to design, conduct, and use findings…

Still Bridging the Opportunity Divide: Year Up’s Impacts Through Five Years

Last week OPRE published a new report with exciting findings about helping young adults become better connected to in…

Celebrating Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month

Every April, OPRE celebrates Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month. Whether we are studying Head Start, home visiting, or economic self-sufficiency, mathematics and statistics can help us find answers to the…

Update: Embracing Learning Opportunities from COVID-19

OPRE and our research partners are working hard to capture information about the pandemic-related experiences of ACF programs and the families they serve. In July, we shared how OPRE was…

Introducing the New Annual Survey of Refugees (ASR) 2020

Historically, refugees to the United States were aided in their resettlement by churches or other community organizations. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter signed the Refugee Act in recognition of the need for government to…