Browse materials related to programs that promote the wellbeing of children and families and measurement for human service programs in American Indian and Alaska Native communities.

Stress, Neurodevelopment, and Programs that Promote the Well-Being of Children and Families: Early Childhood (March 2012)

The overall goal of this roundtable meeting was for participants to explore the added value of biological constructs in our efforts to better understand both the theories and intervention strategies behind early toxic stress and development. Specifically, this meeting sought to address three key questions: 1.) What do we already know about toxic stress from the relevant research in the field? 2.) Can we identify the specific gaps in our knowledge that would be vitally useful for promoting healthy development in child care, Head Start, home visiting, and child welfare populations? 3.) Which of these findings and recommendations for future directions are ready for dissemination for programs and policy makers?

View These Materials

• Meeting Summary

Presentations

• Laurie Brotman 

• Jacqueline Bruce

• Janet DiPietro

• Mary Dozier

• Stacy Drury

• Nathan Fox

• Mark Greenberg

• Megan Gunnar

• Charles Nelson

• Charles Zeanah

The Way Forward II: Measurement for Human Service Programs in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities (November 2015)

On November 3-4 2015, OPRE held the meeting "The Way Forward II: Measurement for Human Service Programs in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities" at the National Museum of the American Indian. This meeting built on the seminal meeting the "Way Forward: ACF Research with American Indians and Alaskan Natives," which was held in April 2014. Over sixty researchers, federal staff, and grantees who work with AIAN communities gathered to discuss challenges and priorities for measurement development.

The meeting was structured over two days to cover four broad topics including: the role of tribal sovereignty and community participation in measure development; cultural adaptation and measurement of implementation fidelity; performance measurement for programs serving tribal communities; and measuring strengths and protective factors in AIAN communities. Academic researchers, federal staff, contracted researchers, and grantees gave presentations. Staff from the meeting planning committee moderated the presentations and facilitated questions and discussion between presentations.

View Meeting Materials

• Meeting Summary

Presentations

• Measures of Positive Parenting for American Indian and Alaska Native Adolescents in Urban Contexts (Stephanie Ayers) 

• Cultural Adaptation and Implementation Fidelity: Accountability, Engagement and Meaning Making (Jessica Ball)

• Performance Management: An ACF Perspective (Emily Ball Jabbour)

• Adolescent Suicide Prevention: The Research and Development Path Toward the Apache Youth Entrepreneurship Program (Allison Barlow) 

• Tribal PREP: Grantee Challenges and Considerations Moving Forward (Marc Clark) 

• Challenges and Solutions from a Tribal IRB Perspective: Case Example of Oversampling (Francine C. Gachupin)

• The Need for and Characteristics of Community-Level Measures that Support Native Language Revitalization (Daryl Baldwin and Susan Mosley-Howard) 

• Measurement and Tribal Sovereignty in the Case of Urban AIAN Communities (Myra Parker) 

• Performance Measurement for Programmatic Monitoring and to Inform Local Decision Making (Lauren Supplee) 

• Utilizing Cultural Foundations & Adaptation 

• Scaling Up Evidence-Based Practices in AIAN Communities: Measuring Fidelity and Impact When EBPs Are Grounded in Culture (Nancy Rumbaugh Whitesell) 

• The Need for Measurement Validation for AIAN Children: Example from the Survey of Well-Being of Young Children (Nancy Rumbaugh Whitesell)