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Research, Evaluation, and Data
Good research and program evaluations assess program performance,
measure impacts on families and communities, and document successes.
With this information, programs and others are able to direct limited
resources to where they are most needed and most effective in their communities.
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The Forum, is a working group of Federal agencies that collect, analyze, and
report data on issues related to children and families. The Forum has
partners from 20 Federal agencies as well as partners in private research organizations.
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Good program evaluations assess program performance, measure impacts on
families and communities, and document program successes. With this
information, programs are able to direct limited resources to where
they are most needed and most effective in their communities.
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Fatherhood studies within Early Head Start represent a coordinated effort by a number of
governmental and nongovernmental groups, working together in the spirit
of the Fatherhood Initiative, begun in 1995. Early Head Start father
studies were funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development (NICHD), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy and
Evaluation (ASPE), the Administration for Children and Families (ACF); and the Ford Foundation.
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The Family and Child Well-being Research Network has drawn together researchers
representing a wide range of skills, experience, and knowledge in child
and family-related research. The Network was conceived as a framework
within which such diverse disciplines as sociology, medicine,
economics, public health, psychology, and statistics could not only
pursue their own individual research agendas but also collaborate in
studies of greater breadth and social import.
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Children's Bureau research on child welfare issues includes the Child Welfare Outcomes annual reports which
include data from AFCARS and NCANDS.
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Children's Bureau research on child abuse and neglect includes the annual Child Maltreatment reports.
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Survey Questions on Fathers and Fathering
DADS: The “Developing a Daddy Survey” and the Collaborative Work of the DADS Working Group,
Framework Paper in PDF / Full Report in HTML
Developing a Daddy Survey (DADS) is a collaborative project that examined and compared survey questions about fathers
and fathering for several public and private surveys that asked questions of fathers
about their fathering behaviors and attitude. This page describes the project and provides links to the survey sites.
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Funded by the Health Services and Resources Administration (HRSA) of the
Department of Health and Human Services, the MCH Library at Georgetown
University provides accurate and timely information including the
weekly newsletter MCH Alert, resource guides, full text publications,
databases, and links to quality MCH sites. For specific information on
fathering and father’s relationship to child health search MCHLine using
“fathers” as the keyword.
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Policy makers and others are concerned that many
young men today are only loosely attached to their children and their children’s
mothers. The Transitions to Fatherhood program project grant funded by the National Institute of
Child Health and Human Development (NIH/HHS) consists of a multi-disciplinary
team of research collaborators who meet on a regular basis to plan and conduct
coordinated analyses on topics relating to the transition to fatherhood using
multiple data sets.
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