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 emancipation of enslaved African Americans.
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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 neighborhoods and communities.
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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 thinking here at the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation.
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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 from program evaluation and performance monitoring.
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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-demand jobs that pay well. The Career Pathways Intermediate Outcomes Study, conducted for OPRE by Abt Associates, is examining intermediate impacts on educational progress, employment and earnings, and family well-being in nine programs first evaluated as part of the Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education (PACE) project.
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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 questions we examine across our research portfolio.
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Update: Embracing Learning Opportunities from COVID-19
Learn more about how OPRE and our research partners are working hard to capture information about the pandemic-related experiences of ACF programs and the families they serve.
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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 assist immigrants needing resettlement when fleeing their home country. ACF’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) was established from this legislation to assist refugees, defined as any person that experienced life-threatening persecution and either voluntarily or forcibly fled their home country.
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Celebrating Black History Month: Spotlight on Dr. Harriette Pipes McAdoo
We are happy to celebrate Black History month and recognize the contributions of countless Black scholars who have shaped the social sciences -- and research and evaluation at the Administration for Children and Families.
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Balancing Rigor and Ethics While Studying Programs Addressing Intimate Partner Violence and Teen Dating Violence
ACF’s evaluation policy establishes five principles: rigor, relevance, transparency, independence, and ethics in the conduct of evaluations. This Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month, we share how we balanced two of those principles -- rigor and ethics -- when collecting data from individuals affected by domestic violence and dating violence.
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