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Children's Bureau outlines CWCC initiative goals and evaluation, posts resources
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Summary
The Children's Bureau describes the Child Welfare Community Collaborations to Strengthen and Preserve Families Initiative (CWCC): 13 cooperative agreements launched in 2018–2019, multi-level prevention strategies, and a cross-site process evaluation with publicly available resources and TA from OPRE contractors APT Global and Child Trends.
The Children's Bureau, within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families (ACF), presented an overview of the Child Welfare Community Collaborations to Strengthen and Preserve Families Initiative (CWCC) and the cross-site process evaluation of that initiative.
CWCC "was designed to mobilize communities to develop and evaluate multi-system collaboratives," the presenter said, adding that the initiative aimed to "address local barriers and provide supports to promote child and family well-being, strengthen protective factors, prevent child abuse and neglect, and keep families together." The initiative comprised 13 cooperative agreements: an initial cohort of four projects that began in 2018 and a second cohort of nine projects that began in 2019.
ACF's Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) contracted with APT Global and Child Trends to provide evaluation-related technical assistance to grantees and to conduct the cross-site process evaluation. The presenter described two forms of technical assistance: individualized TA for each grantee and group TA such as webinars and communities of practice, and said the evaluation team also developed publicly available evaluation resources for those designing or implementing high-quality evaluations.
The cross-site process evaluation, the presenter said, focused on partnership approaches; how projects implemented activities and what promoted or impeded implementation; how projects used data; and grantees' plans for sustainability. The presenter reported the evaluation included four waves of annual data collection plus interviews, surveys, and document review of grantee materials. The transcript's numeric counts for interviews and surveys are garbled and do not provide clear totals; the exact counts were not specified in the recording.
Findings and lessons learned are reported across a series of briefs and a high-level executive summary. The presenter pointed viewers to a "Projects at a Glance" brief and the full series of products and evaluation resources available via the link in the video's description.
The presentation provides tools and summaries intended to help other communities design or evaluate collaborative, multi-system prevention approaches. The recording did not include formal actions or decisions; it was informational and directed viewers to the published materials for more detail.
