Evaluation
Services
Mission Statement:
Evaluation Services partners with agencies to inform practice and
policy to benefit children and families.
- We partner with public or private
agencies as a team to clarify their goals, describe
their service delivery models
and practice, identify who is being served, and develop
the outcomes that are being accomplished.
- We engage program staff in reflective
practice that clarifies the evaluation focus.
- We include stakeholders who are
interested in evaluation results.
- We ensure that the evaluation
provides useful information.
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- Consultation on evaluation
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The Evaluation Services Team has
completed projects that have ranged from short term community
needs assessments and process evaluations through multi-year,
multi-site outcome evaluations. Projects have varied in duration
from six months through six years with costs ranging from
$10,000 to $600,000. The Evaluation Services Team has partnered
with private funders, state child welfare agencies, city
and state agencies, and federal agencies in conducting evaluations.
Highlights of current projects are listed below:
Current Projects:
Evaluations of Professional Social Worker
Training
Child Welfare Training & Advancement
Program (CWTAP) (Children’s Administration).
Multi-year evaluation
of the University of Washington and Eastern Washington University
Child Welfare Training and Advancement Program to evaluate
the effectiveness of Master’s level education for social
workers. Evaluation assesses the placement and professional
preparation of graduates who have received their MSW through
CWTAP who are employed in Children’s Administration.
(Evaluation team: Carol Harper, Angel Dawson, Kate Grossman,
Renee Lamberjack) More...
New Social Worker Academy Training (Children’s Administration).
Ongoing evaluation of a series of trainings provided by the
Children’s Administration to new staff. Evaluation
includes assessment of the core curriculum to support recommendations
to improve and streamline the course offerings in child welfare
services (Evaluation team: Carol Harper)
Academy Learning Assessment Tool (Children’s
Administration). Assess and refine a knowledge tool designed
for use with
newly hired workers. The tool can currently be used for training
improvement purposes with long-term goals for use in high
stake testing and to assess skill development. (Evaluation
team: Carol Harper)
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Evaluations of
Projects to Improve Social Work Practice & Child Welfare
Family Group Conferencing ( Children’s
Administration, Stuart Foundation).
Three-year qualitative evaluation of
family members’ and service providers’ perceptions
of family decision making and child outcomes. Project is
conducted in partnership with the Children’s Home Society
of Washington. (Evaluation team: Carol Harper, Briana Yancey) More...
Mockingbird Family
Model Project (Mockingbird Society).
Qualitative
study of an alternative Hub Home-Satellite Constellation
model to support foster parents and provide resources to
improve the outcomes of children in foster care. (Evaluation
team: Maggie McKenna, Kate Grossman). For a copy of completed
reports, please see www.mockingbirdsociety.org
Quality Improvement Center Frontline
Connections (Children’s
Bureau, Department of Health and Human Services).
Fifth year
of a five year project assessing knowledge generated by three
sub-grantees that developed and implemented culturally competent
models of service delivery for families referred to or at
risk for CPS involvement. (Evaluation team: Maggie McKenna,
Renee Lamberjack)
Court Improvement Training Academy (University of
Washington Law School, Child and Youth Advocacy Clinic) Community
stakeholder interviews to identify the need for training
for meaningful advocacy and meaningful hearings in Dependency
Court. (Evaluation team: Maggie McKenna, Kate Grossman, Pat
Cavit)
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Multi-year Evaluations of Housing Initiatives Sound Families Initiative (Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation).
Six-year evaluation of service-enriched
transitional housing
for homeless families in the Puget Sound Region. The longitudinal
design includes interviews with families while residing in
transitional housing and up to three years after exiting.
(Evaluation team: Jami Bodonyi, Laura Orlando, Briana Yancey,
Renee Lamberjack, Jocelyn Check). For a complete copy of
an evaluation report, please see www.soundfamilies.org More...
Tacoma Housing Authority
Salishan HOPE VI Redevelopment (HUD).
Examines outcomes
of public housing residents who are
relocated during the redevelopment of the Salishan public
housing community; examines neighborhood and community-level
outcomes of the HOPE VI revitalization. Collaborators: UWT
Social Work & Nursing programs, Pacific Lutheran University
Social Work & Anthropology Depts. (Evaluation Team: Kathy
Brennan, Jami Bodonyi)
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Projects Related to Family Support, Child Abuse Prevention
Programs Adolescent Family
Life Demonstration Project (Office of
Adolescent Pregnancy Programs, Office of Population Affairs,
DHHS).
Five year demonstration project with a local and national
cross-site evaluation of parent and child outcomes for participants
receiving health, education and employment services (Evaluation
team: Maggie McKenna, Kate Grossman)
Early Head Start-
University of Washington Partnership (Administration
of Children, Youth & Families,
DHHS).
Three year study of University-Early Head Start Partnership
to assess the
use and reliability of a research-based tool on parent-child
attachment applied in a practice setting (Evaluation Team:
Maggie McKenna, Renee Lamberjack)
Infant Mental Health in the Courts
Project (Stuart
Foundation).
Data collection and analysis project for the
Center for Infant
Mental Health, School of Nursing, University of Washington.
Project will include qualitative data collection and analysis
of community stakeholder interviews. (Evaluation Team: Briana
Yancey, Maggie McKenna, Dee Wilson)
First A.M.E. Fatherhood Responsibility
Engagement and Services in Head Start. Process
and Outcome Evaluation project for the First A.M.E. Child
and Family Center grant on increasing fathers’ involvement
in their children’s lives and enhancing their parenting
skills. (Evaluation team: Renee Lamberjack, Maggie McKenna)
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Projects Assessing Education and
Outcomes for Children and Youth
Seattle YWCA Girls First Program (Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation). Four year evaluation of an educational
enrichment
program for at-risk ethnic girls of color to increase school
completion, educational attainment, and positive esteem.
(Evaluation team: Maggie McKenna, Kate Grossman, Renee Lamberjack)
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