The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE), within the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has recently published two discretionary research funding announcements titled “Child Care Administrative Data Analysis Grants” and “Research Connections.”
For the first time in 20 years, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is considering changes to federal regulations governing protections for people who participate in research. The proposed changes to the policy for the Protection of Human Subjects, known as the Common Rule, represent a watershed moment. By providing scientists and institutional review boards (IRBs)—independent ethics committees that review, approve, and monitor studies involving human subjects — updated guidance, a revised Common Rule will provide a framework for protecting human subjects for decades to come.
A new report presents a conceptual framework for efforts to prepare at-risk youth for healthy adult functioning and self-sufficiency. Produced as part of the Youth Demonstration Development project for the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, the framework explains how we can build our knowledge about what works for at-risk youth, by implementing and testing research-informed interventions to promote youth’s resilience and human capital. An issue brief summarizes the framework.
The Children's Mental Health eReview, provided through the University of Minnesota Extension, Children, Youth & Family Consortium summarizes children's mental health research and implications for practice and policy.
In this issue, learn about research related to the strengths and needs of homeless children, and explore ideas for how to use creative research-based interventions in a variety of settings.
The brief offers a definition of “core components,” discusses challenges and processes related to identifying and validating them, highlights rationales for the importance of operationalizing core components, and explores implications for selecting, funding, implementing, scaling up, and evaluating programs. This is one of four research briefs prepared under the auspices of an ASPE contract entitled Emphasizing Evidence-Based Programs for Children and Youth: An Examination of Policy Issues and Practice Dilemmas Across Federal Initiatives.
This research brief discusses some of the fundamentals of quality program implementation that have been identified through research and practice and that may be useful for practitioners and researchers alike. The brief defines quality program implementation, and highlights the importance of a high quality implementation, identifies 23 factors that affect implementation, discusses 14 steps in achieving quality implementation (10 of which need to occur before a program starts), and notes that responsibility for quality implementation is shared by key stakeholders.
In April 2011, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) hosted a Forum, Emphasizing Evidence-Based Programs for Children and Youth, to convene the leading practitioners and researchers with experience using and evaluating an array of evidence-based programs for children and youth. This brief introduces key themes that emerged from the discussion.
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is offering a summer workshop on the theme of Family Connections Across Generations and Nations: Jamaica, Guyana and the United States.
Andrew Cherlin, NCFR Fellow and noted sociologist and demographer from Johns Hopkins University, discusses his areas of expertise: marriage, cohabitation, and societal trends in family formation including "The Deinstitutionalization of Marriage," the name he coined for these trends.
