Journal Article

Meeting Decision Makers' Needs for Evidence-Based Information on Child and Family Policy

Kilburn, M. Rebecca, Cannon, Jill S.

2003

Overview

With the growing push toward accountability and the interest in designing programs based on scientific evidence, decision makers increasingly need to know what works in the social policy arena. This need has fueled a proliferation of projects aimed at compiling best practices. These projects can be approached in numerous ways, which differ according to their target audience, philosophy regarding what constitutes evidence, medium of presentation, and a host of other factors. One such project is the Promising Practices Network (PPN) on Children, Families, and Communities. The motivation behind the approach to providing information about what works is explained. The focus of PPN is to provide high-quality objective evidence about what improves outcomes for children and families, with an emphasis on serving [policy-makers and service providers. For policymakers and service providers who would like to adopt a program and replicate it in their community, more information is needed about the issues involved with scaling up and replicating a program.

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• Subject: Accountability / Audiences / Benchmarking / Benchmarks / Best practice / Best Practices / Child welfare / Child Welfare Services / Children / Children & youth / Decision makers / Decision making / Design / Evidence / Evidence Based Practice / Families & family life / Family (Sociological Unit) / Family Policy / Family Research / High schools / Human Service Organizations / Hyperlinks / Information / Information Sources / Management / Motivation / Physical Development / Policy analysis / Policy making / Policy studies / Politics of Education / Pregnancy / Professional Practice / Professional practices / Program Design / Program Evaluation / Program Implementation / Research design / School Readiness / Scientific evidence / Social policy / Social Services