US researchers Dean Fixsen and Karen Blase recruit an old testament prophet, a civil rights activist and the founder of the Chicago Leadership Institute to the good cause of better implementation science.
In the context of children’s services, outcomes are the impact of activities – generally speaking a service or set of services – on children’s development. They often refer to reductions in developmental impairment but may be positive or negative.
PROSPER (PROmoting School-community-university Partnerships to Enhance Resilience) represents a long-lasting collaboration between Iowa State and Penn State universities, where researchers have been investigating how to build networks joining the forces of schools, state extension services, universities, and community members in providing young people and their families with life-skills training.
Fidelity refers to faithfulness to the original design of a program. When implementing evidence-based programs in new sites, practitioners often adapt programs.
Common Language is a shared way of thinking people can apply when considering how to improve the well-being of an individual child or group of children. It is sometimes described as an "operating system".
Communities That Care (CtC) is an “operating system” developed by David Hawkins and Richard Catalano from the Social Development Research Group at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Rights refer to powers or liberties to which one is justly entitled, those things to which one has a just claim.
An operating system describes a method to help communities, agencies or local authorities choose effective prevention, early intervention and treatment models.
The pros and cons of early years programs – where to start!
Resources may be scarce and policy makers might have to make difficult decisions about what to buy. But a more rational strategy that invests early for later benefits would make sometimes nitpicking and frequently complicated comparisons between the value of one "flagship" prevention program and another irrelevant.
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test
The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test measures verbal ability or scholastic aptitude of children aged two years and upwards.
effect size
An effect size is calculated to indicate the impact of a program in standard units. The use of standard units means that scores can be compared across a number of different evaluations or programs.
poverty
Poverty refers to poor living standards owing to deficient resources.
Intention to Treat
Intention to Treat is a term used in experimental evaluation to indicate that analysis of the results will include all cases randomly allocated to the intervention group, whether or not they receive the intervention.
Head Start
Part of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, Head Start was a pioneer in early years prevention programs. It is also the most used, having served more than 20 million preschool children since it was introduced in 1965.
High/Scope Perry Preschool project
Developed by the Division of Special Services of the Ypsilanti School District, Michigan, between 1962 and 1967, the High/Scope or Perry Preschool program provides one or two years of part-day educational services and home visits for low-income three- and four-year-old children.
Abecedarian
The Abecedarian program provides high quality pre-school and educational childcare for children from birth to five years from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Child-Parent Center
Child-Parent Center (CPC) is an early childhood prevention program established in Chicago in the late 1960s, and brought to notice by the Chicago Longitudinal Study, a prospective quasi-experimental evaluation of children born in 1979 or 1980, some of whom – the experiment group – attended CPC between 1985 or 1986.
How to be sure the song remains the same
Why is promoting fidelity in the implementation of evidence-based prevention programs like singing an Irish ballad? The policy co-ordinator at Penn State’s Prevention Research Center, Brian Bumbarger, explains the connection between the oral tradition and effective practice.
outcomes
In the context of children’s services, outcomes are the impact of activities – generally speaking a service or set of services – on children’s development. They often refer to reductions in developmental impairment but may be positive or negative.
fidelity
Fidelity refers to faithfulness to the original design of a program. When implementing evidence-based programs in new sites, practitioners often adapt programs.
Learning the moral of the Sure Start story
Nick Axford explains the differences between English and Welsh approaches to implementing and evaluating Sure Start – and considers the lessons for the future.
Judy Hutchings
Judy Hutchings is Director of Incredible Years Wales, which has developed out of the research program she established there in 1995.
poverty
Poverty refers to poor living standards owing to deficient resources.
Incredible Years
The Incredible Years is an early intervention program that aims to improve family interaction and prevent early and persistent antisocial behavior in children aged three to 12.
social exclusion
Social exclusion refers to the involuntary detachment of an individual from mainstream society, usually as a result of the long-term accumulation of multidimensional disadvantage.
Sure Start
Sure Start Local Programmes (SSLPs) have been at the cornerstone of UK Government's drive to tackle child poverty and social exclusion through better prevention and early intervention.
randomized controlled trials
Sometimes referred to as experimental evaluations, randomized controlled trials or RCTs randomly allocate potential beneficiaries of an intervention to a program or treatment group (who receive the intervention) or a control group (who do not). Outcomes for the two groups are then compared.
How Wales gave Sure Start a convincing beginning
Judy Hutchings, prime mover behind the successful implementation and evaluation of Sure Start in Wales, gives a step-by-step account of how to do right what others across the UK border did wrong.
conduct problems
Conduct problems denote a cluster of behavioral difficulties such as non-compliance, aggressive behavior and the violation of the rules of family and society. Children suffering these problems are becoming increasingly common in Western society.
outcomes
In the context of children’s services, outcomes are the impact of activities – generally speaking a service or set of services – on children’s development. They often refer to reductions in developmental impairment but may be positive or negative.
Incredible Years
The Incredible Years is an early intervention program that aims to improve family interaction and prevent early and persistent antisocial behavior in children aged three to 12.
Sure Start
Sure Start Local Programmes (SSLPs) have been at the cornerstone of UK Government's drive to tackle child poverty and social exclusion through better prevention and early intervention.
fidelity
Fidelity refers to faithfulness to the original design of a program. When implementing evidence-based programs in new sites, practitioners often adapt programs.
Fidelity – prevention byword (or new F-word)
A new f-word among children’s services professionals or a principle of effective prevention science? An evaluation of the translation to UK practice of the US Nurse Family Partnership is shedding light on the value and meaning of fidelity.
outcomes
In the context of children’s services, outcomes are the impact of activities – generally speaking a service or set of services – on children’s development. They often refer to reductions in developmental impairment but may be positive or negative.
fidelity
Fidelity refers to faithfulness to the original design of a program. When implementing evidence-based programs in new sites, practitioners often adapt programs.
Sure Start
Sure Start Local Programmes (SSLPs) have been at the cornerstone of UK Government's drive to tackle child poverty and social exclusion through better prevention and early intervention.
Nurse Family Partnership
Nurse Family Partnership is a home visiting early intervention program for first-time low-income mothers and their families.
Family Nurse Partnership
Family Nurse Partnership is a program for vulnerable, first time, young parents based on David Olds’s Nurse Family Partnership, developed and licensed in the United States for the past 30 years.