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Hispanic Healthy Marriage Initiative: Grantee Implementation Evaluation (Project)
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Organization(s): The Lewin Group
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This project is a comprehensive process evaluation of selected ACF Healthy Marriage grantees that serve Hispanic families. By providing an in-depth, systematic analysis of program implementation, operations, and outcomes; comparing implementation and outcomes within and across sites to hypothesize whether some program models appear to be associated with more positive outcomes for Latino populations; and describing and assessing how concepts used in healthy marriage education programs are being defined, adapted and measured for Latino population, this evaluation will lead to the design of more effective interventions. With culturally informed conceptualizations of family, marriage and child wellbeing and appropriate tools to measure them, we will be better able to determine when and how marriage interventions work for Hispanic families. This is an in-depth process evaluation that includes collection of a consistent set of descriptions about the projects and outcome data at approximately 10 Healthy Marriage grantee sites. A series of research briefs and practice briefs will be issued, as well as a comprehensive final report. |
Ongoing;
Year Funded: 2007
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Assessing Child Welfare Privatization Efforts (Project)
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Organization(s): Pal-Tech
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This project identified key issues and challenges surrounding the privatization of child welfare services, developed issue papers intended to assist state and local child welfare agencies consider how their initiatives will address these issues, and developed options for future research that will better inform future child welfare privatization efforts. Through targeted literature reviews, meetings, and conference calls with knowledgeable state and local officials, researchers, and others, information was gathered and synthesized in a series of papers on key topics. One paper concentrates on research gaps and identifies potential options to address them. Others lay out key choices and decision points in shifting from a public to a private system, and the implications and effects on clients as well as on both public and private agency roles and operations. |
Ongoing;
Year Funded: 2006
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Child Welfare Fathers Follow-Up (Project)
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Organization(s): Urban Institute
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This project will fund the acquisition and analysis of administrative data regarding case outcomes for children included in ASPE's study of fathers' involvement in child welfare services and permanency planning, now nearing completion. Its intent is to understand whether caseworkers' success in identifying, locating and involving nonresident fathers (as reported in the April 2006 report What About the Dads?) is related to improved case outcomes for the children. The original study, which collected data through interviews with caseworkers in 2004, could not look at case outcomes because all the children were still in foster care at the time of the interviews. The contractor will include additional data at this time to look at case outcomes nearly two years after the baseline. All four states that participated in the original study (Arizona, Massachusetts, Minnesota and Tennessee) have agreed to provide administrative data for the follow-up. |
Completed;
Year Funded: 2006
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Related Products:
- More About the Dads:
Exploring Associations Between Nonresident Father Involvement and Child Welfare Case Outcomes
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Incarceration and Marriage: An Expansion of the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative Process Evaluation (Project)
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Organization(s): Mathematica Policy Research (MPR)
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This project would provide lessons from the field about implementation successes and challenges of providing healthy marriage services to incarcerated individuals and their partners. The project would be an add-on to our current process evaluation of the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative and involve a case study of how services focusing on the needs of prisoners and their partners are being delivered within this statewide marriage program. Expansion of the existing project is the most cost effective way to get more in-depth information about Oklahoma's program which is an emerging model for marriage programs serving incarcerated populations. The additional resources will be used to expand the interview sample, conduct additional analyses, develop a separate evaluation report, and several practice briefs on the incarceration component. |
Ongoing;
Year Funded: 2006
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Information for Healthy Marriage Interventions (Project)
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Organization(s): Mathematica Policy Research (MPR)
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This two-part project will provide a more nationally representative picture of at-risk families that may access healthy marriage services, and will improve the Administration's ability to evaluate the expansion of these services under TANF reauthorization. This project first will analyze existing national data sets, such as the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97) and the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), to characterize potential users of healthy marriage programs, assess how they differ from couples in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study (the authoritative data source on these issues), and consider implications for program development. Second, experts will identify which programmatic outcome measures can be replicated in existing data, assemble prototype measures into a national benchmark for key subpopulations, provide guidance on how to update and use the benchmark as programmatic results become available, discuss limitations of the benchmark and suggest data enhancements that would strengthen the benchmark. A set of briefs and user guide for comparing program outcomes to the benchmark will be developed. |
Completed;
Year Funded: 2006
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Marriage Education, Financial Literacy, and Asset Development (Project)
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Organization(s): RTI International
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This program is designed to improve both efforts to promote financial literacy and asset accumulation in the low-income population and marriage skills programming for low-income couples. There is a well documented association between marriage and better economic status. However, financial education programs and marriage programs, particularly those geared toward low-income populations, have rarely collaborated. Under this project staff would review and assess existing research on marriage and financial practices including how resources are shared within families. Then ASPE would bring together (with contractor support) researchers, representatives of healthy marriage programs and representatives of financial education programs to review the state of knowledge, discuss programmatic implications and identify topics for further research that could be used to improve the financial components of marriage interventions and to add marriage components to financial education programs. |
Ongoing;
Year Funded: 2006
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National Evaluation of the Responsible Fatherhood, Marriage, and Family Strengthening Grants for Incarcerated and Re-entering Fathers and their Partners (Project)
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Organization(s): RTI, International
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The Evaluation of the Marriage and Family Strengthening Grants for Incarcerated and Reentering Fathers and their Partners (MFS-IP) is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Administration for Children and Families (ACF) initiative to support healthy marriage and responsible fatherhood. Thirteen grantees in 12 states have received five-year grants from the Office of Family Assistance of ACF to implement multiple activities to support and sustain marriages and families of fathers during and after incarceration. |
Ongoing;
Year Funded: 2006
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Relationship Strengths in Married Families (Project)
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Organization(s): NORC with subcontractor Child Trends
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This project will help identify the set of family strengths associated with marriage, particularly the contributions of fathers, and the applications of these findings for healthy marriage interventions. This project will analyze family relationships for two-parent families using the NLSY97, a survey data set that focuses on a group of adolescents who were age 12 to 16 in 1997 and follows them annually as they mature to adulthood. The data contain hundreds of measures reported each year by youth that reflect levels of support/conflict between their parents, their relationship with each parent, how well each parent knows them, and how each parent sets and enforces limits and boundaries. A smaller but similar set of measures are reported by the parents in 1997. Married and non-married biological and non-biological parent families will be compared to identify what sets married-parent families apart in terms of parental contributions and child outcomes. The final product will be a series of research briefs, including one that emphasizes the contribution of fathers and implications for healthy marriage initiatives. |
Ongoing;
Year Funded: 2006
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Role of Faith-Based and Community Organizations in Post-Hurricane Human Service Relief Efforts (Project)
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Organization(s): Urban Institute and others
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This project will gather information on the nature and extent of the human services provided by selected Faith-Based and Community Organizations (FBCO) in the aftermath of Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, and present case studies of a subset of those organizations' experiences, successes and challenges in serving the needs of the low-income. Approximately 200 FBCOs will be surveyed by telephone, and eight to ten organizations will be visited for more in-depth discussion with program and government officials and recipients of services. The goal of the project is to help policy makers know how best to respond to future disasters and how best to utilize the strengths of faith- and community-based private human services providers. The Urban Institute is conducting the study for ASPE, in partnership with a Louisiana State University survey group, two Gulf Region-based associations of nonprofits, and a Technical Advisory Group. Major products will include a research brief on preliminary survey findings, a series of topical papers on subjects to be chosen after the study is underway, and a final report. |
Completed;
Year Funded: 2006
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Oklahoma Marriage Initiative (OMI) Process Evaluation (Project)
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Organization(s): MPR
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The Oklahoma Marriage Initiative (OMI) aims to promote and strengthen marriage, primarily by providing relationship skills education. Funded mostly through TANF, it focuses on serving low-income families but is open to all. The OMI uses existing service delivery infrastructure to provide services and has a growing cadre of volunteer relationship skills instructors trained under the program. This process evaluation will help us understand how states and the federal government can better support healthy marriages, particularly for low income families. Interviews will be conducted with key program stakeholders and other community leaders. Existing secondary data will be analyzed. The process evaluation would provide information on goals and objectives; design, start up and implementation issues; major programmatic components, variance between what was planned and what actually occurred; participant characteristics; and costs. A series of short informational briefs as well as a comprehensive final report documenting the issues and implications around the program design choices made by Oklahoma are planned. |
Ongoing;
Year Funded: 2005
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