Child Support Learning Agenda: A Brief Synthesis of Select Child Support Literature

The purpose of this brief is to summarize the findings from select child support literature identified by OPRE and OCSS and highlight remaining knowledge gaps.

Using Interactive Workshops to Inform Development of a Child Support Learning Agenda

This brief describes the process used to gather input for a future child support learning agenda and summarizes the key themes in questions identified during workshops with federal staff and external experts.

Guide to Publishing Research Data for Secondary Analysis

This brief highlights considerations for planning for the publishing of data files throughout the life cycle of federally contracted research.

Promoting Healthy Futures for Youth: Tips for Using the Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) Program Model

Sexual risk avoidance education (SRAE) is a primary prevention approach that promotes the development of life skills related to healthy relationships, decision making, goal setting, and self-regulation, as well as the benefits of avoiding non-marital sexual activity and other risky behaviors.

Diaper Distribution Programs: Overview of Programs and Available Research

The purpose of this brief is to provide foundational information about diaper distribution programs. The brief begins by summarizing the literature review approach and highlighting key findings about diaper distribution.

Human Service Needs and Disaster Displacement

This report summarizes existing literature and available resources on disaster displacement and human services. The findings in this report can provide useful insights to policymakers, agencies, and organizations that provide human services to people displaced by disasters.

Evidence Capacity in Organizations: A Literature-Informed Framework

This brief presents a framework based on a literature review and interviews within ACF. The goal is to develop a shared understanding of the dimensions of evidence capacity. Organizations can use this to assess their capacity, highlight strengths, and identify opportunities to build capacity.

Evaluation and Monitoring 101

OPRE offers an annual Evaluation and Monitoring 101 training to develop ACF staff skills to assess program performance and impact. This brief describes the training’s history, content, learning outcomes, and approach to continuous improvement.

Tip Sheet: A Practitioner’s Guide to Program Models

This tip sheet describes for practitioners what a program model is, how one can be used, and some examples of how to use a program model in the context of a specific youth program.

Promoting Healthy Futures for Youth: A Program Model for Sexual Risk Avoidance Education

This brief describes a program model for implementing sexual risk avoidance programming for youth that is research-based (Inanc et al. 2020) and also informed by the legislation authorizing SRAE grants.

Conceptual Models for Adulthood Preparation Subjects within the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP)

This report presents conceptual models for the six adulthood preparation subjects (APSs), and a unified framework that identifies commonalities across the models and provides guidance for including a PYD approach in APS programming.

Using Conceptual Models to Tailor Programming on Adulthood Preparation Subjects to Pregnant and Parenting Youth

This brief provides Personal Responsibility Education Program grantees an overview of the key concepts and evidence base for Positive Youth Development (PYD).

Factors Influencing Youth Sexual Activity: Conceptual Models for Sexual Risk Avoidance and Cessation

This brief presents two complementary conceptual models—one for sexual risk avoidance and a second for sexual risk cessation—that aim to guide efforts to prevent youth risk behaviors and promote optimal health.

A Program Model for Encouraging Sexually Experienced Youth to Cease Sexual Activity

This brief was developed as part of a portfolio of youth-focused projects on sexual risk avoidance and cessation sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The brief presents a program model that describes an intervention approach to promote sexual risk cessation among youth.

Incorporating Trauma-Informed Care in Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Programs: Significance and Resources for Grantees

The brief provides information and resources for staff of adolescent pregnancy prevention programs related to trauma-informed care. Resources include a tool that programs can use to assess their use of trauma-informed care.

How Low-Income Fathers in Responsible Fatherhood Programs Perceive and Provide Financial Support for Their Children: Summary Brief

This brief describes how low-income fathers participating in Responsible Fatherhood (RF) programs perceive and provide financial support for their children.

Pathways-to-Outcomes Snapshots: Tools for Building Evidence for Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education (HMRE) Programs

These snapshots are intended for practitioners and researchers involved in designing, improving, or evaluating HMRE programs.

Pathways-to-Outcomes Snapshots: Tools for Building Evidence for Responsible Fatherhood (RF) Programs

These snapshots are intended for practitioners and researchers involved in designing, improving, or evaluating RF programs.

Parents and Children Together: How Low-Income Fathers in Responsible Fatherhood Programs Perceive and Provide Financial Support for Their Children

This report investigates how low-income fathers participating in responsible fatherhood programs perceive and provide support for their children.

Implementation of Career STREAMS: An Integrated Employment and Healthy Relationship Program for Young Adults

This process study report presents findings on the development and implementation of Career STREAMS, an integrated HMRE and employment program designed to serve young adult individuals, ages 18 to 30, in St. Louis Missouri.

Pathways-To-Outcomes: How Responsible Fatherhood Program Activities May Lead to Intended Outcomes

This report presents the four RF Pathways-to-Outcomes models, related to outcomes for which at least one program in the PACT evaluation had statistically significant impacts: (1) healthy relationships between co-parents, (2) father development and well-being, (3) consistent employment; and (4) parenting...

Pathways-To-Outcomes: How Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Program Activities May Lead to Intended Outcomes

This report presents three HMRE Pathways-to-Outcomes models for HMRE programs serving adult couples, related to (1) delivering curriculum, (2) maximizing participation, and (3) addressing couple and individual characteristics.

Conceptual Models to Depict the Factors that Influence the Avoidance and Cessation of Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Youth

This brief presents two initial, complementary conceptual models—one for sexual risk avoidance and a second for sexual risk cessation—that aim to guide efforts to prevent youth risk behaviors and promote optimal health.

Implementation of Two Versions of Relationship Smarts Plus in Georgia

This process study report presents findings on the implementation of the Relationship Smarts Plus 3.0 (RS+) curriculum in two high schools in suburban Atlanta, Georgia.

Participation in Responsible Fatherhood Programs in the PACT Evaluation: Associations with Father and Program Characteristics

This brief presents new findings on the factors that are associated with fathers’ participation in Responsible Fatherhood programs.

Parents and Children Together: The Complex Needs of Low-Income Men and How Responsible Fatherhood Programs Address Them

This report examines (1) the characteristics and views of fathers who voluntarily enrolled in responsible fatherhood programs aimed at increasing their parental involvement, (2) how the programs were designed and implemented, and (3) how the fathers responded to the services offered in the programs.

Parents and Children Together: Design and Implementation of Two Healthy Marriage Programs

This report presents findings from a process study of two Healthy Marriage grantees that participated in the Parents and Children Together evaluation.

Parents and Children Together: Design and Implementation of Responsible Fatherhood Programs

As part of Mathematica’s Parents and Children Together evaluation, this report describes Responsible Fatherhood grants’ program design and implementation and presents data on enrollment, initial participation, retention, and the amount of services fathers received from December 2012 through August 2014....

Responsible Fatherhood Programming: Two Approaches to Service Delivery

This brief describes four grantees and how their different approaches to service delivery may address the needs of fathers, influence their engagement and participation in services, and affect the program content to which they are exposed.

Embedding Job and Career Advancement Services in Healthy Marriage Programs: Lessons from Two Programs in PACT

This brief describes how two federally sponsored Healthy Marriage programs—which primarily aim to improve the relationships of parenting couples—integrated a focus on job and career advancement into their services.

Responsible Fatherhood Programs in the Parents and Children Together (PACT) Evaluation

Policy interest and support for increasing the positive involvement of fathers in their children's lives has increased substantially in recent years, with a dedicated federal funding stream for responsible fatherhood programs.

Making Replication Work: Building Infrastructure to Implement, Scale-up, and Sustain Evidence-Based Early Childhood Home Visiting Programs with Fidelity (Issue Brief)

Mathematica and its partner, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, conducted a national cross-site evaluation of the Supporting Evidence-Based Home Visiting to Prevent Child Maltreatment (EBHV) initiative.

Making Replication Work: Building Infrastructure to Implement, Scale-up, and Sustain Evidence-Based Early Childhood Home Visiting Programs with Fidelity

This final evaluation report brings together findings from all years of the EBHV initiative, drawing on interim reports and briefings and updating results with analyses of data collected through the initiative’s first four years of implementation (fall 2009 through spring 2013).

Home Visiting: The Potential for Cost Savings from Home Visiting Due to Reductions in Child Maltreatment

This brief presents the results of this cost study, the research evidence on evidence-based home visiting’s impact on the prevention of maltreatment, and the most current estimates of the individual lifetime and societal costs of maltreatment.

Making Replication Work: Building Infrastructure to Implement, Scale Up, and Sustain Evidence-Based Early Childhood Home Visiting Programs (Presentation)

Frequently Asked Questions: Reporting Implementation Findings

This update features answers to frequently asked questions about the role an implementation evaluation plays in supplementing impact evaluation findings in final study reports.

Child Care Quality Rating and Improvement Systems: Approaches to Integrating Programs for Young Children in Two States

This report focuses on approaches used by QRISs in Indiana and Pennsylvania to connect with and build on the programs and resources that exist within the early childhood care and education system.

The Oklahoma Marriage Initiative: A Process Evaluation

By the end of 2007, between 5 and 10 percent of Oklahoma households had participated in relationship skills workshops. Every county in the state was reached to some extent. About three-quarters of participants were youth or adult clients of agencies that serve single adults.