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Explore this sustainability planning workbook designed for Tribal TANF-Child Welfare (TTCW) grantees, including worksheets and guidance considering your program's goals, staffing, partnerships and more.

In 2022, the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE)— in collaboration with ACF’s Tribal Home Visiting Program and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) —contracted with James Bell Associates (JBA) and the Centers for American Indian Alaska Native Health (CAIANH) at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver. The resulting project, the Center for Indigenous Research Collaboration and Learning for Home Visiting (CIRCLE-HV) , will fund Research-Practice Partnerships in which participants pursue their own research aims; it will also partner closely with home visiting programs serving Indigenous families to pursue a Cross-Site Study. To inform these activities, the project team set out to develop knowledge on fundamental principles of Indigenous methodologies and to identify past examples of braided Indigenous and Western research approaches.

The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation’s (OPRE’s) PREP Local Evaluation Support and Dissemination (PLESD) team describes how to engage Indigenous populations in evaluation using Indigenous methodolo

This data user’s guide provides information on the 2021—2022 Study and its restricted use data file created from data collected via surveys of Head Start parents, teachers, center directors, and program directors, as well as teacher-child reports. 

The 2021—2022 Study of Family and Staff Experiences in American Indian and Alaska Native Head Start FACES Programs: Spring 2022 Data Tables and Study Design

Using a Continuous Quality Improvement Collaborative Approach in Indigenous Contexts: Lessons Learned from Tribal Home Visiting

This brief describes how the VHT-NC projects used culture as a resource, which we define as using or integrating cultural values, beliefs, traditions, and activities into various project strategies and services offered. We explore how the projects incorporated culture within four programming areas: (1) project staffing, (2), education and training, (3) outreach, and (4) case management and supportive services. 

This brief describes how culturally responsive and participatory approaches (e.g., Tribal study approval, community engagement) were incorporated into the VHT-NC Formative Evaluation.

The Demonstration Grants to Strengthen the Response to Victims of Human Trafficking in Native Communities (VHT-NC) Program: Final Report of the Formative Evaluation summarizes the implementation of the six VHT-NC projects funded in September 2020, including their challenges and strengths. The report describes the VHT-NC projects’ (1) community context, (2) structure and approaches, (3) partnerships, (4) outreach and identification strategies, (5) case management and service delivery, and (6) community training. 

This brief provides a description of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on VHT-NC program implementation between 2020-2023.