Building Capacity to Improve Program Evaluation in Child Welfare

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Program evaluation plays an important role in CB-funded projects and programs. A wide range of stakeholders rely on program evaluations to answer important questions about program design, capacity, collaboration, implementation, participation, service delivery, and effectiveness.

In recent years, CB has supported several efforts to improve evaluation in child welfare. The resources below have been designed to meet evaluation-related needs. Many are practical tools for directors and evaluators of CB-supported grants, but several have been created with practitioners, faculty, community members, students, and agency leadership in mind.

2019 National Child Welfare Evaluation Summit

National Child Welfare Evaluation Summit 2019 Logo

At the 2019 National Child Welfare Evaluation Summit, child welfare leaders, members of the research and evaluation community, and their partners and stakeholders came together in Washington, DC, to explore the gap between research and practice and consider how they can better support three overarching goals: building evidence, strengthening practice, and informing policy. The conference theme, “Leveraging Data and Evaluation to Strengthen Families and Promote Well-Being,” highlighted the opportunity for child welfare systems and their partners to build knowledge responsibly and use evidence to ensure that children and youth thrive in strong and heathy families.

National Child Welfare Evaluation Summit Materials (2019)

At the 2019 Evaluation Summit, over 800 attendees participated in timely presentations and action-oriented discussions to strengthen the use of data, research, and evaluation to improve practice and outcomes for children and families. The conference program is available for download.