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Annotation: This document contains summaries of effective programs and practices for improving child, youth, and family outcomes. Contents include primary evidence criteria; lists of programs by age of child and by type of setting, service, and outcome addressed; and descriptions of programs reviewed for the period 2000 to 2014. Each description includes information on outcome areas, indicators, topic areas, and evidence level (proven or promising); program participants; evaluation methods and key findings; probable implementers and implementation detail; funding; issues to consider; example sites; contact information; resources; and a bibliography.

Contact: Rand Corporation, 1776 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90407-3208, Telephone: (310) 393-0411 Fax: 310-393-4818 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.rand.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Children, Families, Model programs, Outcome and process assessment, Program descriptions, Program evaluation, Youth

Annotation: This document for public health professionals provides information on using evaluation to inform the policy process. Topics include identifying where you are in the policy process and focusing on evaluation, using logic models to describe policy efforts, gathering credible evidence, justifying conclusions, ensuring use of findings and sharing lessons learned, and using evaluation to inform the specific domains of the policy process. Examples are included.

Contact: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30329-4027, Telephone: (800) 232-4636 Secondary Telephone: (888) 232-6348 E-mail: https://www.cdc.gov/cdc-info/forms/contact-us.html Web Site: http://www.cdc.gov Available from the website.

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Keywords: Evaluation methods, Federal agencies, Health policy, Models, Policy development, Process evaluation, Public health

Annotation: This system provides clinicians and researchers access to validated adult- and child-reported (self-reported) measures of health and well–being. Contents include tools to measure what clients are able to do and how they feel by asking questions. Information about the system methodology (publications and presentations, data, review, and testing); software; and related resources is also included.

Contact: National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892, Telephone: (301) 496-4000 Secondary Telephone: (301) 402-9612 Fax: (301) 496-0017 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.nih.gov Available from the website.

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Keywords: Clinics, Forms, Measures, Outcome and process assessment, Quality assurance, Questionnaires, Research, Treatment effectiveness evaluation

Annotation: This toolkit highlights strategies and provides resources to help organizations address intimate partner violence and perinatal depression within their own communities. Topics include making the case, building and sustaining partnerships, raising awareness, developing cultural and linguistic competency, addressing policy, and implementing standards of care guidelines. Pre- and post-program assessment tools and links to national resources are included.

Contact: U.S. Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, Secondary Telephone: (833)852-6262 Web Site: https://mchb.hrsa.gov Available from the website.

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Keywords: Community programs, Depression, Domestic violence, Organizational change, Outcome and process assessment, Perinatal health, Postpartum depression, Program evaluation

Annotation: This report describes the oral health surveillance system in Alaska. Contents include the system's history, goal, objectives, purpose, data needs, logic model, indicators, and data sources. Plans for analysis, dissemination, and evaluation are included.

Contact: Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, Oral Health Program, Alaska Division of Public Health , P.O. Box 110610, 130 Seward Street, Room 508, Juneau, AK 99801-0610, Telephone: (907) 465-8628 Web Site: http://dhss.alaska.gov/dph/wcfh/Pages/oralhealth/default.aspx Available from the website.

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Keywords: Alaska, Communication, Data analysis, Data sources, Evaluation, Oral health, Outcome and process assessment, Population surveillance, State initiatives, Systems development

Annotation: This report describes the evaluation and outcomes of a pilot project to educate, train, and deploy community health workers in improving the oral health status of people in underserved communities. Topics include the role of the Community Dental Health Coordinator (CDHC) in providing oral health education, performing preventive procedures, and connecting clients to dentists for treatment. The report also describes core competencies and components of the CDHC curriculum and the status of CDHC student cohorts.

Contact: American Dental Association, 211 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611-2678, Telephone: (312) 440-2500 Fax: (312) 440-7494 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.ada.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Community based services, Health care delivery, Oral health, Outcome evaluation, Preventive health services, Process evaluation, Professional education, Training, Work force

Annotation: This brief highlights six key lessons from the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Evidence Review, which aimed to identify, assess, and rate the rigor of program impact studies on teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection prevention programs. Lessons include using existing resources, taking care in defining the scope of the review, engaging study authors and experts, reporting on more than just positive findings, assessing whether findings are implementation-ready, and using findings to encourage improved research quality and reporting.

Contact: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue, S.W., Room 415 F, Washington, DC 20201, Web Site: http://aspe.hhs.gov Available from the website.

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Keywords: MCH research, Process evaluation, Research methodology

Annotation: This evaluation report summarizes methods, outputs, and outcomes of Phase II (community awareness and education) of the Community Genetics Education Project, a project funded by a Health Resources and Services Administration cooperative agreement with the March of Dimes with the goal of increasing the genetic literacy of African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders. The report aims to identify overarching challenges, lessons learned, and best practice implications. Specifically, the report (1) summarizes methodologies used in the development of this report, (2) provides an overview of local site interventions, (3) describes the roles of various project partners in Phase II, (4) summarizes common elements of the local evaluations and provides an overview of specific local evaluation designs and methods, (5) summarizes and discusses local evaluation findings, (6) addresses how these findings have been disseminated and discussed, (7) discusses additional Phase II outcomes, (8) details implementation challenges and lessons learned, and (9) summarizes best practice implications.Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Contact: Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University, E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: https://www.mchlibrary.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Blacks, Communities, Evaluation, Genetics education, Health literacy, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Intervention, Outcome and process assessment, Pacific Islanders

Annotation: This toolkit, which incorporates policies and tools used at U.S. hospitals, outlines best practices and provides support materials and guidance for implementing a quality-improvement project focused on reducing elective deliveries before 39 weeks' gestation. The toolkit also provides methods to identify improvement opportunities and outlines techniques for measuring process and outcome improvements. Topics include the importance of eliminating deliveries before 39 weeks, implementation, data collection and quality improvement, and clinician and patient education.

Contact: California Department of Public Health, Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Program, MS 8305, P.O. Box 997420, Sacramento, CA 95899-7420, Telephone: (866) 241-0395 Fax: (916) 650-0305 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/MCAH/Pages/default.aspx Available from the website.

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Keywords: Cesarean section, Child morbidity, Childbirth, Education, Guidelines, Infant morbidity, Maternal morbidity, Outcome evaluation, Perinatal morbidity, Prevention, Process evaluation, Programs, Resource materials, Trends

Annotation: This report summarizes key findings and recommendations from the evaluation of a beta test to pilot the main processes of public health department accreditation and the draft standards and measures from the perspective of the health department applicant (beta site), site visitor, and Public Health Accreditation Board staff. Major revisions to the accreditation process and standards and measures are described at the end of the summary.

Contact: NORC at the University of Chicago, 1155 East 60th Street, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60637, Telephone: (773) 256-6000 Web Site: http://www.norc.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Accreditation, Management, Measures, Organizational change, Outcome and process assessment, Pilot projects, Program evaluation, Program improvement, Public health agencies, Quality assurance, Standards, Work force

Annotation: This report presents the results of a national evaluation conducted by RAND Corporation to assess the effectiveness of 15 program sites across the country that offer interventions to prevent and reduce the impact of children's exposure to violence (CEV). The evaluation is part of Safe Start Promising Approaches (SSPA) -- the second phase of a planned four-phase initiative sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Preventio (OJJDP). OJJDP selected these program sites because they proposed a range of intervention approaches; focused on multiple types of violence; included variations in ages and age-appropriate practices; and would be implemented in different settings. The evaluation design involved three components: a process evaluation, an evaluation of training, and an outcomes evaluation. This report presents the results of the first two components. It describes the program and community settings, interventions, and implementations of the 15 programs for the first two years of implementation (through March 2009), as well as the training evaluation results.

Contact: Rand Corporation, 1776 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90407-3208, Telephone: (310) 393-0411 Fax: 310-393-4818 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.rand.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Intervention, Child welfare, Children, Federal initiatives, Process evaluation, Program evaluation, Safe Start Promising Approaches, Violence prevention

Annotation: This toolkit focuses on how to sustain improved outcomes that have been achieved during project implementation in the areas of public health, healthcare, social service, education, and related fields. The toolkit provides a detailed definition of sustainability of improved outcomes and offers a framework for assessing and planning for sustainability. The appendices include descriptions of sustainability factors along with planning and assessment worksheets. Information and tools are provided for grant applicants, funders, and grantees. Additional tools for organizations and funders, training and technical assistance, and related research articles and reports are also available.

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Keywords: Outcome and process assessment, Outcome evaluation, Program development, Program improvement, Strategic planning, Sustainability

Annotation: This report presents the results of a project to evaluate processes used by states, territories, and tribal health departments to develop health promotion and disease prevention plans based on the Healthy People 2020 framework, as well as evaluate the effectiveness of the framework used to guide them. Contents include a description of the participants, the Healthy People 2020 concepts they addressed, their implementation process, the partnerships they leveraged and the communication strategies they used for their planning processes, and their perspectives on the Healthy People 2020 objectives.

Contact: U.S. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite LL100, Rockville, MD 20852, Fax: (240) 453-8280 E-mail: https://odphp.health.gov/about-odphp/contact-us#socialmedia-email Web Site: https://odphp.health.gov/ Available from the website.

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Keywords: Health objectives, Healthy People 2020, Process evaluation, State initiatives, Strategic plans

Annotation: This paper reports information from eight focus groups consisting of people who were recently disenrolled from the Medicaid, Family Health Plus, or Child Health Plus public health insurance programs in New York. Interviewees were asked about the challenges they faced in recertifying to retain their benefits and the problems they face after losing those benefits. Ideas for improvement concern telephone or Internet recertification processes, pre-populated forms, native language forms, and more personal assistance for beneficiaries in the process.

Contact: New York State Health Foundation, 1385 Broadway, 23rd Floor, New York, NY 10018, Telephone: (212) 664-7656 Fax: (212) 421-6029 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.nyshealth.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Access to health care, Eligibility, Focus groups, Health care delivery, Health insurance, Medicaid, Process evaluation, Public health agencies

Annotation: This assessment tool is an organized set of questions designed to help practitioners assess whether curriculum-based sex and sexually transmitted disease and HIV programs have incorporated the common characteristics of effective programs. The tool is divided into six sections. The first three sections describe the three categories of effective programs: (1) characteristics describing the process of developing the effective curricula, (2) characteristics describing the contents of effective curricula, and (3) characteristics describing the process of implementing the curricula. These three sections are followed by section 4: a characteristics summary table; section 5, a list of potentially useful resources; and section 6: a glossary. It is available in both English and Spanish.

Contact: Healthy Teen Network, 1501 Saint Paul Street, Suite 124, Baltimore, MD 21202, Telephone: (410) 685-0410 Fax: (410) 687-0481 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.healthyteennetwork.org $10.00, plus shipping and handling; also available from the website.

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Keywords: HIV, Curricula, Forms, Outcome and process assessment, Program evaluation, Sexuality education, Sexually transmitted diseases, Spanish language materials

Annotation: This book introduces the foundations, primary methods, and applications of children's health services research. It describes various approaches, shows how these approaches differ from methods used in relation to adult health, and demonstrates the value that can be added by outcomes research. The book is divided into four parts. Part 1 relates to accountability in child health services. Part 2 focuses on child health in context to the home, neighborhood, community, and culture. The third part discusses child health in conventional health care settings and the improvement of organizational performance. Part 4 covers child health outcomes and the broadening of the reach of applied research. The book includes a glossary, name index, and subject index.

Contact: Jossey-Bass Publishers, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Corporate Headquarters, 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, Telephone: (201) 748-6000 Fax: (201) 748-6088 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.JosseyBass.com Available in libraries. Document Number: ISBN 0-7879-5875-1.

Keywords: Access to health care, Child health services, Health services delivery, Outcome and process assessment, Process evaluation, Research

Annotation: This volumes includes these chapters: 1. A new day is here -- 2. Assessment plans, reports, and guides in institutions of higher education -- 3. Developing an assessment for measuring student learning outcomes -- 4. Information literacy assessment efforts of some academic libraries -- 5. Moving public libraries toward outcomes assessment -- 6. Outcomes as a type of assessment -- 7. The research process -- 8. Evidence demonstrating the achievement of outcomes -- 9. Service quality and satisfaction -- 10. Making a commitment to accountability and learning outcomes assessment.

Contact: American Library Association, 50 East Huron, Chicago, IL 60611, Telephone: (800) 545-2433 Secondary Telephone: (888) 814-7692 Fax: (312) 944-3897 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.ala.org $44.10. Document Number: ISBN 0-8389-0813-6.

Keywords: Evaluation, Libraries, Outcome and process assessment

Annotation: This report reviews the National Archives and Records Administration's (NARA) response to the difficulties of managing, preserving, and providing access to federal agencies' electronic records. Also reviewed are NARA's efforts to acquire an advanced electronic records archiving system, which will be based on new technologies that are still the subject of research. The report includes the following sections: results in brief; conclusions; recommendations for executive action; agency comments, and a glossary. The appendices provide information on the report's objectives, scope, and methodology; an evaluation of approaches to archiving electronic records; a review of agencies managing large volumes of important electronic records; and comments from NARA.

Contact: U.S. Government Accountability Office, 441 G Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20548, Telephone: (202) 512-3000 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.gao.gov Available from the website. Document Number: GAO-02-586.

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Keywords: Electronic publications, Federal agencies, Government records, Information systems, Process evaluation, Records management

Annotation: This notebook provides an overview of and evaluation principles and material for the North Carolina Smart Start program, an early childhood initiative for children birth through 5 years and their families to prepare the children for school healthy and ready to succeed. It is designed to orient partnership evaluators and staff who are new to the program, serve as a reference for staff members already working with Smart Start evaluation, and serve as a central collection of information related to the evaluation process. Chapter contents include an overview of Smart Start evaluation, how to use the evaluation tools at various program levels, foundation of program evaluation, developing evaluation capacity, baseline data and needs and resources assessment, developing Smart Start benchmarks and activity outcomes, working with direct service providers, and evaluation resources. A glossary and an index complete the notebook.

Contact: Smart Start, North Carolina Partnership for Children, 1100 Wake Forest Road, Raleigh, NC 27604, Telephone: (919) 821-7999 Web Site: http://www.ncsmartstart.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Data collection, Early childhood development, Early childhood education, Evaluation methods, Family support services, Manuals, North Carolina, Outcome and process assessment, Program descriptions, Program evaluation, Resource materials, School readiness, State initiatives, Young children

Annotation: This report describes the Title V Maternal and Child Health Block Grant to States program and provides a national statistical overview of Title V programs. The report includes a listing of the Special Projects of Regional and National Significance (SPRANS) and other federal MCH grants to each state and jurisdiction. The data presented are for FY 98. The bulk of the report consists of a statistical summary for individual states. Each summary includes data about (1) the number of pregnant women, infants, children, and children with special health care needs (CSHCN) who were served by Title V; (2) a full picture of the sources of funding for maternal and child health (MCH); (3) the relative allocation of resources among four levels of service on the MCH pyramid of services; and (4) a selection of performance and outcome measures. The report also describes the electronic reporting package (ERP) used for data collection, and includes the Maternal and Child Health Bureau strategic plan, a list of resource organizations, and a glossary. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Block grants, Child health, Children with special health care needs, Financing, Fiscal management, MCH programs, Maternal health, Outcome and process assessment, Outcome evaluation, Resource allocation, SPRANS, State programs, Statistics, Title V programs