10/17/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 10/17/2024 13:14
The Child Welfare Community Collaborations (CWCC) initiative is designed to mobilize communities to develop and evaluate multi-system collaboratives that address local barriers and provide a continuum of services to prevent child abuse and neglect. The initiative is funded by the Children's Bureau (CB) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families (ACF). In 2018 and 2019, CB awarded 5-year cooperative agreements to a total of 13 states, non-profit organizations, and Native American tribal organizations (referred to here as "grantees"). The first cohort of four grantees received CWCC funds in 2018 and the second cohort of nine grantees received CWCC funds in 2019.
To advance the evidence around collaborative approaches to preventing child abuse and neglect, the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation within ACF, in collaboration with CB, contracted with Abt Associates and its partner Child Trends to conduct the Building Capacity to Evaluate Child Welfare Community Collaborations project. The project includes:
These grantee profiles summarize each of the nine CWCC Cohort 2 grantee projects and are included in a series of products the evaluation team will produce as part of the cross-site process evaluation. Each grantee profile includes an overview of the project and descriptions of the project's community and organizational context, key partners and collaborative efforts, implementation strategies, use of data and evaluation, plans for sustainability, and lessons learned. You can view the profile for each of the Cohort 2 grantee projects at the links below:
These grantee profiles are one of many products from the cross-site process evaluation designed to advance the evidence around collaborative approaches to preventing child abuse and neglect. They complement the Child Welfare Community Collaborations Projects at a Glance brief by providing more in-depth descriptions of the specific activities that each Cohort 2 grantee and their collaborative partners undertook, along with facilitators, barriers, and lessons learned.
ACF's CWCC initiative funded collaborative efforts across the United States to prevent child maltreatment and reduce community-level rates of child abuse, neglect, and out-of-home placements. While grantees shared a common goal, they were diverse geographically, organizationally, and in the specific strategies they undertook. Cohort 2 included the following nine grantee projects:
Each grantee's project employed a variety of prevention-oriented strategies such as:'
The grantee profiles explore which strategies each grantee implemented and how, as well as grantee-specific facilitators, barriers, and lessons learned.
These grantee profiles use qualitative data collected from (1) annual site visits with in-depth interviews with CWCC project leadership, key partners and staff, as well as (2) information from grantee documents such as applications, semi-annual progress reports, and summaries of each grantee created by the evaluation TA team to describe the strategies that CWCC grantees included in their initial approaches. The evaluation team also asked CWCC project directors and theCook Inlet Tribal Council Compliance Officerto review their grantee profile for accuracy.
DeCoursey, J., Glenn, M., Layzer, C., & Schachtner, R. (2024). Allegheny County Department of Human Services Child Welfare Community Collaborations Grantee Profile. OPRE Report 2024-266, Washington, DC: Office of Research, Planning, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, US Department of Health and Human Services.
Flannigan, A., Glenn, M., Layzer, C., & Schachtner, R. (2024). YMCA of San Diego County Community Collaborations Grantee Profile. OPRE Report 2024-269, Washington, DC: Office of Research, Planning, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, US Department of Health and Human Services.
Glenn, M., Antonova, G., Layzer, C., & Schachtner, R. (2024). Washington Department of Children, Youth, and Families Community Collaborations Grantee Profile. OPRE Report 2024-270, Washington, DC: Office of Research, Planning, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, US Department of Health and Human Services.
Layzer, C., Glenn, M., Elmudesi, E., & Schachtner, R. (2024). Ohio Children's Trust Fund Community Collaborations Grantee Profile. OPRE Report 2024-267, Washington, DC: Office of Research, Planning, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, US Department of Health and Human Services.
Layzer, C., Glenn, M., Gilbertsen, J., & Schachtner, R. (2024). Trustees of Indiana University Child Welfare Community Collaborations Grantee Profile. OPRE Report 2024-272, Washington, DC: Office of Research, Planning, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, US Department of Health and Human Services.
McKlindon, A., Downing, K., Glenn, M., Layzer, C., & Schachtner, R. (2024). Larimer County Department of Human Services Community Collaborations Grantee Profile. OPRE Report 2024-273, Washington, DC: Office of Research, Planning, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, US Department of Health and Human Services.
McKlindon, A., Elmudesi, E., Glenn, M., Layzer, C., & Schachtner, R. (2024). Vision for Children at Risk Child Welfare Community Collaborations Grantee Profile. OPRE Report 2024-268, Washington, DC: Office of Research, Planning, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, US Department of Health and Human Services.
Roy, R., Jacquin, L., Glenn, M., Layzer, C., & Schachtner, R. (2024). The Family Resource Center of North Mississippi Child Welfare Community Collaborations Grantee Profile. OPRE Report 2024-274, Washington, DC: Office of Research, Planning, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, US Department of Health and Human Services.
Rushovich, B., McBride, C., Layzer, C., Glenn, M., & Schachtner, R. (2024). Partnership for Strong Families' Inc. Child Welfare Community Collaborations Grantee Profile. OPRE Report 2024-271, Washington, DC: Office of Research, Planning, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, US Department of Health and Human Services.
Cook, R., Schachtner, R., & Blocklin, M. (2023). An Introduction to the Child Welfare Community Collaborations Grantees and Strategies. OPRE Report # 2023-332, Washington, DC: Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Cook, R., Cusick, J., & Schachtner, R., & Blocklin, M. (2023). Child Welfare Community Collaborations Projects at a Glance. OPRE Report # 2023-333, Washington, DC: Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Layzer, C., Blocklin, M., Schachtner, R., & Cook, R. (2023). Child Welfare Community Collaborations Cross-Site Process Evaluation Design and Methods. OPRE Report # 2023-334, Washington, DC: Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
McKlindon, A., Schachtner, R., Flannigan, A. (2024). Approaches to Partnership in the Child Welfare Community Collaborations Initiative. OPRE Report 2024-103, Washington, DC: Office of Research, Planning, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, US Department of Health and Human Services.
Naylon, K., Cook, R., Schachtner, R., Malm, K., Flannigan, A., & Blocklin, M. (2024). Supporting Equity Through Child Welfare Community Collaborations. OPRE Report 2024-102, Washington, DC: Office of Research, Planning, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, US Department of Health and Human Services.
Tano, C., Layzer, C., Hyra, A., Cook, R., and Blocklin, M. (2021). Community Prevention of Child Maltreatment: Lessons learned and Promising Practices During the COVID-19 Pandemic. OPRE Report 2023-11, Washington, DC: Office of Research, Planning, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.