Children, Youth and Families Education and Research Network

Author: Marek, Lydia (16 more by this author); Mancini, Jay A.
Description: This summary reports on the sustainability of the 14 New Communities Programs one (nine states) and two (five states) years after their initial five years of funding ended and the involvement of these sustained NCP projects with 4-H.

Author: Betts, Sherry (6 more by this author); Roebuck, James C.; Peterson, Donna J.
Description: This document reports results from Round Two of the Organizational Change Survey. It gives special attention to the integration of CYFAR programming into base programs and provides a second snapshot of the state of Extension three years after the first round with an emphasis on changes that have occurred over this time.

Author: Betts, Sherry (6 more by this author); Sewell, Meg; Peterson, Donna; Marczak, Mary
Description: This report contains survey results. It provides a snapshot of the state of Extension during late 1997 and early 1998 with regard to its organizational ability to support programming for children, youth and families at risk. Both national and state trends are reported, highlighting some states.

Author: Marczak, Mary (7 more by this author); Earthman, Erik; Peterson, Donna; Betts, Sherry
Description: Results from the Organizational Change Survey provided valuable information about Extension's ability to work with at-risk children, youth and families. The findings also stimulated questions which required further examination. To explore these issues, in-depth telephone interviews were conducted. This report summarizes the findings from those interviews.

Author: Peterson, Donna (5 more by this author); Jones, Tamara A.; McDonald, Daniel A.
Description: The CYFERnet Assessment was conducting in March 2008 to obtain perceptions of what CYFERnet is doing well and how CYFERnet can improve and to determine the extent of technology use/integration in CYFAR projects. This page contains links to the full report and the executive summary which highlights key findings from the survey.

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Author: Bracamonte Wiggs, Christine (1 more by this author); Leslie Bosch; Amy Schaller ; Lynne M. Borden
Description: The Organizational Change Survey was developed to document states' abilities to develop and sustain effective programs for children, youth, and families at risk. This report presents findings from the fourth round of data collection conducted in 2010 and describes the Extension system’s ability to provide continued support to community-based programs that address the needs of children, youth, and families at risk.

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Author: Marek, Lydia (16 more by this author); Brock, Donna J. P.; Mancini, Jay A.
Description: Programs for children, youth, teens, adults, and families have been shown to have positive influences on the quality of community life (Comer & Fraser, 1998; Marek, Mancini, Lee and Miles, 1996; Schorr, 1997). Even though the human resource and economic resource investments in community-based programs are substantial, and despite what is known about the nature of successful programs, the matter of what sustains programs is less clear (Lerner, 1995; Mancini & Marek, 1998). The research and analyses reported here are designed to address some of the deficits in our understanding of program sustainability, specifically for at risk audiences, and reflects the second phase in a multi-year study of community-based programs that are targeted to at risk youth and families. The long-term goals of this research project are to document project longevity for at risk audiences and the processes that underlie it, to build a program sustainability conceptual framework, and to develop a community-level sustainability assessment inventory.

Author: Marek, Lydia (16 more by this author); Brock, Donna J. P.; Earthman, G. Erik; Mancini, Jay A.
Description: The National Youth at Risk Program Sustainability Study was designed to examine the sustainability of Youth at Risk projects initially funded through the USDA/CSREES CYFAR Initiative. The current report focuses on 94 Youth at Risk (YAR) projects four years after their initial grant ended and represents the latest in a series of reports focused on the sustainability of these projects.

Author: Mancini, Jay (6 more by this author); Marek, Lydia I.
Description: What is known is that many community-based programs have relatively short lives and that once the initial funding base expires many programs do as well. Understanding how and why programs survive and thrive requires an ecological approach to individuals, families, programs, and communities. The following analysis reflects the first phase in a multi-year study of community-based programs.

Author: Mancini, Jay (6 more by this author); Miles, C. Sue; Lee, Thomas R.; Marek, Lydia I.
Description: Because of difficulties that many community-based projects have in sustaining their programs, understanding those programs that have been highly successful can serve as roadmaps for planning, implementation, and sustainability.

National CYFAR Evaluation Studies

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