Resource Library

This brief highlights promising practices for sharing and accessing data and discusses lessons learned related to four key activities essential to sharing and accessing data: (1) developing agreements for data sharing and use; (2) protecting the data’s security, confidentiality, and privacy; (3) securing institutional review board (IRB) and other approvals; and (4) accessing the data.

The series reports grantees’ plans for their Sexual Risk Avoidance Education programs.

This evidence snapshot describes the effectiveness of programs that were identified by the Pathways Clearinghouse as using subsidized employment or transitional jobs as their primary service.

Lessons learned from four employment coaching programs that made major changes to their operations during the COVID-19 pandemic

The Distributed Leadership brief presents an overview of distributed leadership and its role in supporting quality improvement, as well as provide an example of how ECE settings can achieve distributed leadership from a quality improvement initiative called the Culture of Continuous Learning (CCL) project.

This brief highlights promising practices for preparing and linking data and discusses lessons learned related to (1) processing and cleaning data, (2) completing linkages, and (3) collaborating with partners to execute linkages.

This research explores the prevalence of training patterns that are likely to lead to jobs that “pay well” and how those training patterns vary across several dimensions: available years of HPOG federal program funding, enrollee characteristics, and funding round (HPOG 1.0 vs. HPOG 2.0).

Explore the key findings from the final report of OPRE’s Project SPARK on evaluation technical assistance (TA), which describes a proposed definition of evaluation TA, a conceptual framework for evaluation TA, and a review of the approaches and evidence of promise or effectiveness of evaluation TA initiatives.

Explore this brief to learn about how New York City’s Human Resources Administration (HRA) used evidence-based decision making and reflection to systematically test and refine their upfront assessment process for youth and families receiving TANF, with the goal of helping TANF and other human services agencies generate ideas of how to use data-driven reflection (testing) to make decisions and continuously improve their programs

Explore this brief to learn about how Iowa’s Family Development and Self-Sufficiency (FaDSS) program used evidence-based decision making and reflection to understand how well virtual coaching is meeting the needs of their families, with the goal of helping TANF and other human services agencies generate ideas of how to use data-driven reflection (testing) to make decisions in their own organizations.