U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Children's Bureau

The program, directed by the Children’s Bureau in the Administration for Children and Families, is a key federal program that the United States Congress authorizes to solely and specifically address the issues that arise at the intersection of child welfare and substance use.
RPG grantees are able to select, plan, and implement a slate of services and programs for families in their respective states and communities. Program guidelines require grantees to submit common measures of their performance, evaluate their programs, and participate in a national cross-site evaluation. Since 2012, Mathematica has designed and conducted the national cross-site evaluation, given technical assistance to grantees, and collected performance measures to support the RPG program.
An RPG Partnership
To learn more about how one RPG partnership has provided evidence-based resources to parents and caregivers with SUDs, view this video we created with the Children’s Bureau.
Evidence & Insights From This Project

Testing Incremental Improvements to Program Enrollment: An Example of How RPG Projects Can Use the Learn, Innovate, Improve Framework
The evaluation technical assistance brief provides a detailed example of how a Regional Partnership Grant (RPG) project might use Learn, Innovate, Improve (LI2)— a continuous quality improvement framework—to address the challenge of lower-than-expected program referrals and enrollment.
Learn MoreRegional Partnership Grants Cross-site Evaluation: Annual Report for October 2021 through September 2022
Regional Partnership Grant Cross-Site Evaluation: Annual Report for October 2020 Through September 2021
Regional Partnership Grants Cross-Site Evaluation: Annual Report for October 2019 through September 2020
Partnering to Reduce Substance Use and Child Maltreatment: 2014 Regional Partnership Grants Final Report
National Cross-Site Evaluation and Evaluation-Related Technical Assistance: RPG First Annual Report
Tips for Planning an Impact Evaluation
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