This brief summarizes the signs and symptoms of mental health problems among adolescents, including depression, suicide risk, and anxiety disorders and suggests research questions that can aid prog
This guide examines nine program-observation and quality-improvement tools for youth-serving programs and explains their purpose, history, structure, methodology, and technical properties.
Harvard Family Research Project's evaluation periodical, The Evaluation Exchange, addresses current issues facing program evaluators of all levels, with articles written by evaluators in the field.
This report presents a case for measuring and reporting juvenile justice system performance outcomes and describes six essential features of a strategy for measuring juvenile justice performance. Five case studies are presented, all which work toward goal of balanced and restorative justice.
This organization offers program planning and evaluation consulting, training, and Web-based tools to nonprofit organizations to improve program effectiveness, better serve communities, and communi
This report presents examples of successful strategies used by states to improve early care and education for infants and toddlers, and support for families.
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
The Blueprints for Violence Prevention initiative evaluated the implementation quality of 9 violence and drug prevention programs in 147 sites and identified 6 critical components of successful imp
Administration for Children and Families, Children's Bureau.
This toolkit aims to help program managers, administrators and interested others develop and implement evaluation processes that will be useful in day-to-day practice, and to help provide evidence
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