Resource Library

OPRE’s Narrow Cost Analysis series aims to help CCDF Lead Agencies by defining narrow cost analysis and offering examples and expert advice on building cost models, doing cost surveys, and using cost data when setting payment rates.

This brief highlights examples of short-term strategies sites participating in the Fathers and Continuous Learning project implemented to collect, analyze, and report data outside their own data systems.

Explore findings and recommendations for career pathways program providers considering the use of program data to predict participant success outcomes.

This report is an overview of the Children’s Data Network/Rady project, conducted as part of the Child Maltreatment Incidence Data Linkages (CMI Data Linkages) project.

This report presents an overview of the University of Alabama School of Social Work (UA-SSW) project, conducted as part of the Child Maltreatment Incidence Data Linkages (CMI Data Linkages) project.

This OPRE brief considers the extent to which TANF agencies across the country are using TANF funds to serve and support families experiencing or at-risk of homelessness.

This snapshot provides an overview of the conceptual framework that guided the development of new center-level measures of implementation and cost for use in early care and education centers.

Evidence on the services and combinations of services that improve labor market outcomes.

This brief presents a definition of human-centered design that is applicable to the context of human services delivery and discusses how it has been used in various human services contexts.

This brief describes the VIQI project, its key research questions, and the conceptual framework underlying the project.