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US Department of Health and Human Services, 2013
In April 2011, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) hosted a Forum, Emphasizing Evidence-Based Programs for Children and Youth, to convene the nation's leading practitioners and researchers with experience using and evaluating an array of evidence-based…
Descriptors: Evidence, Program Implementation, Human Services, Performance Factors
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Fixsen, Dean; Blase, Karen; Metz, Allison; van Dyke, Melissa – Exceptional Children, 2013
Evidence-based programs will be useful to the extent they produce benefits to individuals on a socially significant scale. It appears the combination of effective programs and effective implementation methods is required to assure consistent uses of programs and reliable benefits to children and families. To date, focus has been placed primarily…
Descriptors: Evidence, State Programs, Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness
Metz, Allison; Burkhauser, Mary; Collins, Ashleigh; Bandy, Tawana – Child Trends, 2008
The implementation of programs and practices that reflect the best available research and evaluation is a new and very promising development in the out-of-school time field. However, successfully implementing a new, evidence-based program or practice is a major challenge for practitioners. This challenge is due, in large part, to a lack of…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Program Implementation, Evidence, Administrator Effectiveness
Lepler, Susan; Uyeda, Kimberly; Halfon, Neal – UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, 2006
In response to the problems caused by categorical funding for services to children and families, the National Commission on Children recommended a series of changes in the organization, administration, and implementation of programs at all levels of government, to encourage a more collaborative and comprehensive service delivery system, including…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Program Implementation, Human Services, Federal Programs