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The Exploration of Integrated Approaches to Supporting Child Development and Improving Family Economic Security project investigated the design and evaluability of approaches to alleviating poverty that address the needs of low-income parents and children. The project examined...

The Exploration of Integrated Approaches to Supporting Child Development and Improving Family Economic Security project investigated the design and evaluability of approaches to alleviating poverty that address the needs of low-income parents and children. The project examined programs...

This report presents findings from the Systems Change Analysis of the 27 non-tribal HPOG grantees funded in 2010, which operated 49 programs. This study addresses the major research question: What changes to the service delivery system are associated with program implementation?

The Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV) supports voluntary, evidence-based home visiting services for at-risk pregnant women and parents with young children up to kindergarten entry. The Continuous Quality Improvement Toolkit: A Resource for Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program Awardees (CQI Toolkit) will help MIECHV awardees...

Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) are initiatives implemented in states to promote improvement in the quality of early care and education (ECE) programs. Although systems vary in their specific features, QRIS typically include a process for measuring and rating ECE program quality, sharing ratings with parents and the public...

This research brief summarizes the measures used in Quality Rating and Improvement Systems validation studies...

This white paper addresses the 2018 revision of the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC). Federal statistical agencies use the SOC to classify workers and jobs into occupational categories. ACF’s proposals in this paper include changes to the titles, definitions, and placement of the occupations involving the early childhood care and education (ECCE) workforce....

Randomized experiments—in which study participants are randomly assigned to treatment and control groups within sites—give researchers a powerful method for understanding a program’s effectiveness. Once they know the direction (favorable or unfavorable) and magnitude (small or large) of a program’s impact, the next question is why the program produced its effect. Multi-site evaluations offer a chance to “get inside the black box” and explore that question.

This paper considers a new method, called Cross-Site Attributional Model Improved by Calibration to Within-Site Individual Randomization Findings (CAMIC), which seeks to reduce bias in analyses that researchers use to understand what about a program’s structure and implementation leads its impact to vary.

First, researchers estimate the overall impact of the program without selection bias or other sources of bias, and then use cross-site analyses to connect program structure (what is offered) and implementation (how it is offered) to the magnitude of the impacts. However, these estimates are non-experimental and may be biased.

The CAMIC method takes advantage of randomization of a program component in only some sites to improve estimating the effects of other program components and implementation features that are not or cannot be randomized. The paper describes the method for potential use in the Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG) program evaluation.

A simulation analysis of CAMIC shows that the method does not consistently reduce bias and, in some cases, increases bias. Nevertheless, we argue that presenting details of the method is useful. We urge other researchers to consider other settings where the method might be successfully applied in order to help evaluators learn more about what works.

This report focuses on TANF recipients’ engagement and experiences in the HPOG Program, with the goal of helping understand how HPOG programs serve TANF recipients and developing hypotheses for further study...

This brief summarizes key characteristics of programs funded through the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) that reported at least half of the youth they served were homeless or runaway youth. PREP, which aims to reduce teen pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections, and associated risk behaviors, is administered by the Family and Youth Services Bureau...