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Explore this brief on the Office of Refugee Resettlement's Matching Grant Program, which describes common approaches used by resettlement agencies and the local affiliates in their network for securing matching funds and building partnerships.

Explore briefs highlighting ACF projects to support the agency’s evidence capacity, including needs assessment, learning agenda development, and administrative data analysis.

Discover an overview of racial inequity findings in funding for human services programs in rural counties.

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Data Collaborative Pilot Initiative is a component of the TANF Data Innovation project. The 30-month pilot offered technical assistance and training to support cross-disciplinary teams of staff at eight state and county TANF programs in the routine use of TANF and other administrative data to inform policy and practice.

Included in this collection are eight profiles summarizing the data analytics projects undertaken by participating agencies.

Federal agencies often have experience with building and using evidence to design, manage, and improve their work on behalf of the public. All agencies, regardless of their experience level, can benefit from assessing their capacity to build and apply evidence in their work. The brief presents a snapshot of an evidence capacity framework that draws on research literature supplemented with interviews and focus groups with federal staff.

Explore a framework developed by OPRE that introduce five dimensions of evidence capacity among federal agencies: evidence culture, evidence infrastructure, engagement, human capital, and leadership.

The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE), within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), offers an annual Evaluation and Monitoring 101 training to develop ACF staff skills to assess program performance and impact. This brief describes the training’s history, content, and learning outcomes, as well as OPRE’s approach to continuously improving the training based on participant feedback.

This brief describes the development, validation, and cross jurisdiction replication of a risk prediction model designed to predict foster care placement.

This brief describes the TANF Data Collaborative (TDC), an innovative approach to increasing data analytics capacity at state Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) agencies.

Explore findings from an analysis of patterns of data use by state TANF agencies and understand what characterizes exemplary data use.