Obama’s Promise: Using Evidence to Fight the Nation’s Social Problems

Haskins, Ron; Margolis, Greg

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“…Demonstrating effectiveness to these stakeholders requires more than descriptive data, no matter how compelling such data might be. As stated earlier, Congress and OMB are requiring evidence for funding of programs, more so today than even five years ago (see Haskins, Paxson & Brooks-Gunn, 2009 and Haskins, 2014, for a discussion of evidence-based programing in early childhood).…”

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Evaluating youth development programs: Progress and promise

Roth

Brooks‐Gunn

2015

Applied Developmental Science

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Advances in theories of adolescent development and positive youth development have greatly increased our understanding of how programs and practices with adolescents can impede or enhance their development. In this paper the authors reflect on the progress in research on youth development programs in the last two decades, since possibly the first review of empirical evaluations by Roth, Brooks-Gunn, Murray, and Foster (1998). The authors use the terms Version 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 to refer to changes in youth development research and programs over time. They argue that advances in theory and descriptive accounts of youth development programs (Version 2.0) need to be coupled with progress in definitions of youth development programs, measurement of inputs and outputs that incorporate an understanding of programs as contexts for development, and stronger design and evaluation of programs (Version 3.0). The authors also advocate for an integration of prevention and promotion research, and for use of the term youth development rather than positive youth development.

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Evaluating youth development programs: Progress and promise

Roth

Brooks‐Gunn

2015

Applied Developmental Science

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“…Thus, NPHSOs with missions related to key public policy priorities may have more EBPrelated funding opportunities. Haskins and Margolis (2014) identify and describe six major initiatives of the Obama Administration to fund the implementation of evidence-based programs. For example, the Teen Pregnancy Prevention program out of the Office of Adolescent Health funded 75 NPHSOs and public agencies to select and implement an evidence-based program (Stid, Neuhoff, Burkhauser, & Seeman, 2013).…”

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“…Examples include pay-for-success (PFS) models (Butler, Bloom, & Rudd, 2013;Jha, Joynt, Orav, & Epstein, 2012;Roman, Walsh, Bieler, & Taxy, 2014) through both federal agencies (Greenblatt & Donovan, 2013;Haskins & Margolis, 2014) and private foundations (Ryan & Taylor, 2012). NPHSOs are one of the key community-based settings through which the "what works" trend is expressed at the local level.…”

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Challenges in Implementing Evidence-Based Practices and Programs in Nonprofit Human Service Organizations

Despard

2016

Journal of Evidence-Informed Social Work

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Evidence-based practice (EBP) is an important, yet under-utilized strategy to improve social work practice. Nonprofit human service organizations (NPHSOs) are a common social work practice setting through which efforts to promote EBP ought to be better understood. NPHSOs experience capacity limitations, lack of access to research evidence, and funding difficulties which makes adopting, implementing, and sustaining EBP challenging, if not untenable. These challenges are more acute for NPHSOs in practice fields for which little top tier intervention research evidence, dissemination platforms, and funding programs exist. Recommendations for overcoming these challenges are discussed.

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“…Evidence-based policy efforts are increasingly seeking to invest public resources in effective interventions that improve wellbeing while reducing costs to public systems (Aarons, Hurlburt, & Horwitz, 2011; Haskins & Margolis, 2015; Herk, 2009). As a result, many policymakers are turning to prevention efforts that promise to build a more nurturing society (Haskins & Margolis, 2015; Vandlandingham, 2016).…”

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“…As a result, many policymakers are turning to prevention efforts that promise to build a more nurturing society (Haskins & Margolis, 2015; Vandlandingham, 2016). Despite this growing demand, the field has yet to consistently move beyond effectiveness evaluation and actually value investments in many such preventive strategies (Crowley, Hill, Kuklinski, & Jones, 2013; National Academies of Medicine, 2015).…”

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A Framework for Valuing Investments in a Nurturing Society: Opportunities for Prevention Research

Crowley

Jones

2017

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

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Investing in strategies that aim to build a more nurturing society offers tremendous opportunities for the field of prevention science. Yet, scientists struggle to consistently take their research beyond effectiveness evaluations and actually value the impact of preventive strategies. Ultimately, it is clear that convincing policymakers to make meaningful investments in children and youth will require estimates of the fiscal impact of such strategies across public service systems. The framework offered here values such investments. First, we review current public spending on children and families. Then, we describe how to quantify and monetize the impact of preventive interventions. This includes a new measurement strategy for assessing multi-system service utilization and a price list for key service provision from public education, social services, criminal justice, healthcare, and tax systems.

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Obama’s Promise: Using Evidence to Fight the Nation’s Social Problems

Cited by 54 publications

References 3 publications

Evaluating youth development programs: Progress and promise

Evaluating youth development programs: Progress and promise

Challenges in Implementing Evidence-Based Practices and Programs in Nonprofit Human Service Organizations

A Framework for Valuing Investments in a Nurturing Society: Opportunities for Prevention Research

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