Resources for Evaluating Parent/Family Programs
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Description: This website strives to provide the best available data and analysis on critical issues affecting struggling families and at-risk kids. Annie E. Casey Foundation's mission is to foster public policies, human service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families.
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United States Department of Education
Description: "This award-winning site is designed to help pursue the President's initiatives, including No Child Left Behind, and advance our mission as a Department—to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence for all Americans. It also supports the work of ED offices, led by senior ED officials..."
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Description: This is an article about the Family Check-Up, a user-friendly, web-based self-assessment tool for families. The tool provides immediate feedback to the user and would have multiple programming applications. These programming applications include needs assessment, access to Extension educational materials and programming, enhancement of collaboration and referrals among family and consumer science disciplines, program marketing, and potential outcome evaluation tools.
A Guide To Family Intervention and Prevention Program Evaluation 
Author: Kaufman Kantor, Glenda; Kendall-Tackett, Kathy
Description: In this guide, the basics of program evaluation are discussed in a sequenced format, with a nod given to family violence prevention and intervention programs.
Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI-2)
Author: Bavolek, Stephen (1 more by this author); Keene, Richard G.
Description: This website provides psychometric information on the Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI-2), a 40-item questionnaire used to assess the parenting attitudes and child rearing practices of adolescents and adults. The purpose of the inventory is to determine the degree to which respondents agree or disagree with parenting behaviors and attitudes known to contribute to child abuse and neglect.
Author: Mead, June (7 more by this author); Garcia, Aleta; Peterson, Donna J.
Description: This bulletin includes a brief introduction to a key indicator, a case example of a community-based program making a difference in the indicator highlighted, sample program goals and objectives, description of program intervention, a sample evaluation plan, key evaluation results, reporting hints and other resources.
Evaluation Made Easy: Examples of Practical Evaluations - Empowerment Evaluation
Author: Mead, June (7 more by this author); Garcia, Aleta; Tepper, Karen Hoffman
Description: This bulletin includes a brief introduction to a key indicator, a case example of a community-based program making a difference in the indicator highlighted, sample program goals and objectives, description of program intervention, a sample evaluation plan, key evaluation results, reporting hints and other resources.
Evaluation Made Easy: Examples of Practical Evaluations - Home Visiting Program
Author: Mead, June (7 more by this author); Garcia, Aleta
Description: This bulletin includes a brief introduction to a key indicator, a case example of a community-based program making a difference in the indicator highlighted, sample program goals and objectives, description of program intervention, a sample evaluation plan, key evaluation results, reporting hints and other resources.
Author: Mead, June (7 more by this author); Garcia, Aleta
Description: This bulletin includes a brief introduction to a key indicator, a case example of a community-based program making a difference in the indicator highlighted, sample program goals and objectives, description of program intervention, a sample evaluation plan, key evaluation results, reporting hints and other resources.
Evaluation Made Easy: Examples of Practical Evaluations - Parenting Skills Programs
Author: Mead, June (7 more by this author); Garcia, Aleta; Peterson, Donna J.
Description: This bulletin includes a brief introduction to a key indicator, a case example of a community-based program making a difference in the indicator highlighted, sample program goals and objectives, description of program intervention, a sample evaluation plan, key evaluation results, reporting hints and other resources.
Author: Mead, June (7 more by this author); Garcia, Aleta
Description: This bulletin includes a brief introduction to a key indicator, a case example of a community-based program making a difference in the indicator highlighted, sample program goals and objectives, description of program intervention, a sample evaluation plan, key evaluation results, reporting hints and other resources.
Evaluation that Goes Beyond the Data
Description: Program evaluation is a process that documents the successes and efforts of outreach programs describing educational or behavioral impacts. Increasingly, educators who work with youth and family programs are asked to document program outcomes. These results have become increasingly important to educators and funders. However, with limited accessible information pertaining to program evaluation, educators are often challenged and frustrated by the need to design and conduct good evaluation. This article describes two accessible interactive Web sites that were designed to provide support to educators designing program evaluations. The first site is designed to assist educators in evaluating parenting education programs, in particular. The second site assists educators in designing effective evaluations for any program. These two Web sites offer educators a self-study opportunity to gain new skills and knowledge to support their program evaluation efforts.
Harvard Family Research Project
Description: Through the Harvard Family Research Project website you can Overview of Evaluation read about their evaluation work and evaluation projects. You can also get current and past issues of The Evaluation Exchange, a periodical about emerging strategies in evaluation, and access research-based tools and publications about evaluation.
Home Visiting: Recent Program Evaluations
Author: Behrman, Richard (1 more by this author)
Description: This issue of the Future of Children contains a comprehensive review of current evaluations and research of home visiting programs including the Healthy Families America and Hawaii’s Healthy Start Program.
Program Development for Parenting Education Interactive Program Evaluation Development Site
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author)
Description: An interactive website with easy to follow directions on program evaluation.
Description: The site contains information on the Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory by Stephen J. Bavolek, Ph. D. and Richard Keene, Ph. D. A valid and reliable inventory designed to assess high-risk parenting and child rearing attitudes among parent and adolescent populations. Available in Spanish.
Use of a Stages of Change Model to Guide Evaluation Development
Author: Griffin, Melody; Francesca Adler-Baeder; Thomas Smith
Description: Describes the use of ProchaskaÂ’s Stages of Change Model to guide the evaluation of Phase II of the CYFAR project Beginning Education Early: Strengthening Rural Alabama Families (BEE). Phase II involves programs designed to help parents interact productively with community health services and develop effective co-parenting relationships. ProchaskaÂ’s model aids in detecting subsequent movement toward behavioral/awareness change.
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A Guide To Family Intervention and Prevention Program Evaluation
Author: Kaufman Kantor, Glenda; Kendall-Tackett, Kathy
Description: In this guide, the basics of program evaluation are discussed in a sequenced format, with a nod given to family violence prevention and intervention programs.
Description: This web site offers easy access to federal and state statistics and reports on children and their families, including: population and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior and social environment, and education.
Family Resiliency Interactive Program Evaluation Development Site
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author)
Description: Good evaluation for any program comes from good program planning. The Extension Parenting Evaluation Decision Framework is an interactive program planning tool that allows you to step through a total process. The total model includes 10 steps. You should plan about 20-30 minutes of time to work through all the steps. The authors of the original document and the creators of this interactive site hope you will find this a learning and thought provoking experience.
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Description: This is an article about the Family Check-Up, a user-friendly, web-based self-assessment tool for families. The tool provides immediate feedback to the user and would have multiple programming applications. These programming applications include needs assessment, access to Extension educational materials and programming, enhancement of collaboration and referrals among family and consumer science disciplines, program marketing, and potential outcome evaluation tools.
Description: This web site offers easy access to federal and state statistics and reports on children and their families, including: population and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior and social environment, and education.
Program Development for Parenting Education Interactive Program Evaluation Development Site
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author)
Description: An interactive website with easy to follow directions on program evaluation.
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Description: This is an article about the Family Check-Up, a user-friendly, web-based self-assessment tool for families. The tool provides immediate feedback to the user and would have multiple programming applications. These programming applications include needs assessment, access to Extension educational materials and programming, enhancement of collaboration and referrals among family and consumer science disciplines, program marketing, and potential outcome evaluation tools.
American Psychological Association
Description: Based in Washington, DC, the American Psychological Association (APA) is a scientific and professional organization that represents psychology in the United States.
Description: This web site offers easy access to federal and state statistics and reports on children and their families, including: population and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior and social environment, and education.
Home Visiting: Recent Program Evaluations
Author: Behrman, Richard (1 more by this author)
Description: This issue of the Future of Children contains a comprehensive review of current evaluations and research of home visiting programs including the Healthy Families America and Hawaii’s Healthy Start Program.
Author: Oshana, Domarina
Description: This guide is intended to provide a basic
introduction to the process of research and to help readers think critically about how to use research to inform practice.
Description: The site contains information on the Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory by Stephen J. Bavolek, Ph. D. and Richard Keene, Ph. D. A valid and reliable inventory designed to assess high-risk parenting and child rearing attitudes among parent and adolescent populations. Available in Spanish.