Findings and Resources from CB Evaluations of Training and Technical Assistance

From 2014 through 2020, the Children’s Bureau funded a multi-year study to evaluate the services of the Child Welfare Capacity Building Collaborative. Below are briefs and reports developed under this study, including the final evaluation report and executive summary highlighting key findings, a description of the framework and methods used in the Cross-Center Evaluation of the Capacity Building Collaborative, and the conceptual approaches to understanding capacity building in the context of child welfare.

• Building Capacity in Child Welfare: Findings From a Five-Year Evaluation of the Capacity Building Collaborative - Report
• Building Capacity in Child Welfare: Findings From a Five-Year Evaluation of the Capacity Building Collaborative - Executive Summary
• Cross-Center Evaluation Design: Capacity Building Collaborative
• What Is Organizational Capacity and What Does It Look Like in Child Welfare?
• How Can Organizational Capacity be Measured?
• How Do We Build Organizational Capacity in Child Welfare?

From 2009-2014, the Children’s Bureau funded an evaluation of two groups of Training and Technical Assistance providers –regional Child Welfare Implementation Centers (ICs) and National Child Welfare Resource Centers (NRCs). These 15 centers provided varying levels of T&TA to States, Tribes and territories. This section includes a final report detailing the study’s findings and implications, an Executive Summary, two-page synopsis of the report, a series of four tip sheets for T&TA providers and recipients, and a series of four evaluation briefs.

• Supporting Change in Child Welfare: An Evaluation of Training and Technical Assistance – Report
• Supporting Change in Child Welfare: An Evaluation of Training and Technical Assistance – Executive Summary
• Supporting Change in Child Welfare: An Evaluation of Training and Technical Assistance – Evaluation Overview

Tip Sheets for Training and Technical Assistance Providers and Recipients

A series of four tip sheets summarizes implications from the 2015 report Supporting Change in Child Welfare: An Evaluation of Training and Technical Assistance. Intended for T&TA providers and recipients, these one-page tip sheets offer strategies for delivering or receiving T&TA based on key evaluation findings, themes, or implications.

• Getting the Most Out of Training and Technical Assistance
• Delivering Effective Training and Technical Assistance
• The Role of T&TA in Building a Child Welfare Agency’s Capacity to Use Data
• Supporting Systems Change in Child Welfare: Tips for T&TA Providers

Evaluation Briefs

A series of four evaluation briefs summarizes evaluation methods and findings from the 2015 report Supporting Change in Child Welfare: An Evaluation of Training and Technical Assistance. These four-page briefs highlight the approach and issues around measuring the effectiveness of T&TA delivered to child welfare agencies and courts. The briefs may be of interest to evaluators, program administrators, and T&TA providers and recipients.

• Using Data on Training and Technical Assistance for Evaluation and Management
• Collaboration Among T&TA Providers
• Evaluation of Implementation and Outcomes
• Evaluation Methodology

The Use of Implementation Projects to Support Change in Child Welfare - This topical paper summarizes (1) T&TA, implementation, and evaluation strategies to support systems change in child welfare agencies, and (2) related outcomes.

Bibliographies

The 2015 report Supporting Change in Child Welfare: An Evaluation of Training and Technical Assistance is one of many publications stemming from the Children’s Bureau’s T&TA centers. These bibliographies document materials written by and about the NRCs and ICs.

• NRC Bibliography
• IC Bibliography