6351 Week 4 Discussion 1

9/16/2021 Topics | The Administration for Children and Families

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Topics

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Abuse, Neglect, Adoption & Foster Care The child welfare research portfolio includes research on children who are maltreated or who are at risk for child maltreatment; children and families who come to the attention of child protective services; and children and families who are receiving...

Administrative Data for Research and Improvement Administrative data are widely recognized as an underutilized resource for building knowledge to inform social service policy and program design. It is also potentially a more cost-e�ective source...

Child Care Research in this area furthers our understanding of child care as a support for parental employment and for children’s developmental well being, and of the role of child care subsidies in allowing low-income working parents to balance work and...

Head Start & Early Head Start Research sponsored through Head Start funding over the past decade has provided valuable information not only to guide program improvement in Head Start itself, but also to guide the field of early childhood programming and early childhood...

Home Visiting OPRE manages research and evaluation activities related to the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program. The MIECHV program is administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration, in collaboration with the Administration for Children and

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, Families. Major research and evaluation projects include the Multi-Site Implementation Evaluation of Tribal Home Visiting (MUSE), the Home Visiting Evidence of E�ectiveness (HomVEE) project, and the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE).

Human Tra�cking This portfolio includes research and evaluation projects intended to improve services for victims of human tra�icking; to inform the development of anti-tra�icking strategies, policies, and programs to prevent and respond to human tra�icking; and to guide future evaluation. OPRE partners with the O�ice on Tra�icking in Persons, in addition to other ACF program o�ices, on these e�orts.

Interoperability and Data Sharing This portfolio promotes data sharing and collaboration to enable data-driven service delivery and program administration. Examples include...

Methods and Tools OPRE is responsible for generating information and answering empirical questions related to the human services provided by the Administration for Children and Families, and promoting the use of that evidence to inform policy and practice. To do so, OPRE uses a variety of research and evaluation methods that are rigorous, relevant, transparent, independent, and ethical. This set of work...

Self-Su�ciency, Welfare & Employment This portfolio addresses innovative approaches for increasing economic self-su�iciency and reducing public assistance dependency...

Strengthening Families, Healthy Marriage & Responsible Fatherhood This portfolio includes research and evaluation on topics such as family formation and stability

9/16/2021 Topics | The Administration for Children and Families

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This portfolio includes research and evaluation on topics such as family formation and stability, co-parenting, marriage, fatherhood, and violence in relationships. Studies include a focus on the implications of programs and policies (including welfare policies)...

Youth Services This portfolio includes evaluations of approaches for helping youth make healthy choices that lead to self-su�icient adult lives. E�orts include evaluations of teen pregnancy prevention and sexual risk avoidance education strategies...