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Colorado Early Intervention and Simplified Modification Project – Final Report
Final report submitted to the Colorado Department of Human Service’s Division of Child Support Enforcement. Findings include strategies for early intervention and recommendations for simplifying modification procedures. Conducted in Denver and Pueblo, two large urban counties, Colorado’s Section 1115 demonstration grant aimed to improve child support payments and reduce arrears by utilizing early intervention strategies Read More
Using Continuous Quality Improvement to Refine Interventions for Youth at Risk of Homelessness
In this brief, local evaluators working with two Youth at Risk of Homeless grantees, Alameda County, California, and the Colorado Department of Human Services, describe how their teams used continuous quality improvement (CQI) to learn from the initial implementation of their model interventions and refine them.
Issue(s): Child Welfare
Focus Area(s): Foster Care & At-Risk Youth, Program Innovations
Keyword(s): at-risk youth, case management, foster care, program innovations
Colorado 2Gen Procedures Manual
In 2013, the Colorado Department of Human Services, Division of Child Support Services (CSS) underwent a name change from Child Support Enforcement to Child Support Services. Along with this shift in name, a shift in perspective and priorities took place. Child Support Services began a transformation in agency culture toward a family-centered approach. As part Read More
Utilizing Coaching to Prevent Homelessness Among Transition-Age Youth with Foster Care Histories
This research brief provides an overview of coaching behavior and in-depth examples of the practice and impacts of coach-like engagement in working with at-risk youth.
Issue(s): Child Welfare
Focus Area(s): Foster Care & At-Risk Youth, Program Innovations
Keyword(s): at-risk youth, coaching brief, foster care, homeless prevention
Including Fathers in Programs and Policies for Children and Families
The Fatherhood Research and Practice Network (FRPN) examined state approaches to supporting fatherhood programs and including fathers in state agencies, departments, programs, and policies that affect children and families. The goal of the investigation is to stimulate replication of effective approaches in state settings. Our review covered four large-scale federal grant or demonstration programs dealing Read More
Issue(s): Father Engagement & Healthy Relationships
Focus Area(s): Fatherhood Programs
Keyword(s): children, families, fatherhood, fatherhood programs, program innovations
Developing A Model Intervention to Prevent Homelessness Among Transition-Age Youth
In 2013, Colorado’s Department of Human Services (CDHS), Division of Child Welfare (DCW) was chosen as one of eighteen grantees to receive a planning grant (Phase I) from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Children’s Bureau under their Youth-At-Risk-of-Homelessness (YARH) demonstration projects. Since then, Colorado was selected as one of six grantee sites Read More
Issue(s): Child Welfare
Focus Area(s): Foster Care & At-Risk Youth
Keyword(s): at-risk youth, foster care
Preventing Relationship Violence Through Community Change: Results from a Baseline Survey on Coloradans’ Readiness to Address Relationship Violence as a Community
This report is part of an ongoing evaluation of the Stand Up Colorado social change initiative. Stand Up Colorado is a campaign aimed at preventing relationship violence (RV). The overall evaluation of the campaign will include both process and outcome components. This report focuses on the baseline survey that was conducted as part of the Read More
Issue(s): Gender-Based Violence
Focus Area(s): Domestic Violence Program Innovations, Intimate Partner Violence
Keyword(s): attitudes, baseline survey, color blind, domestic violence, Intimate Partner Violence, racism, sexism, social change, stand up colorado
The Whys and Hows of Process Evaluation
The purpose of an outcome evaluation is fairly straightforward. Conducting a rigorous outcome evaluation is not easy. Understanding the need for it is: Your funders, colleagues, and staff want to know if your program produced the intended results. It can be less obvious what a process evaluation will tell you or why it will be useful, but Read More