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Evidence-based home visiting systems evaluation update: Infrastructure-building plans and activities in 2011

Description:
This report provides a snapshot of subcontractors' plans for achieving their targeted outcomes and the EBHV goals and their actual infrastructure-building activities in year 3 of the initiative, roughly at the midpoint of implementation. EBHV subcontractors are operating in complex, dynamic, and unpredictable environments. As they adapt to these changing conditions, their plans and activities change, potentially altering the initiative's outcomes. Tracking these changing conditions and the evolution of subcontractors' plans and activities as they adapt can provide a rich picture of how complex system interventions operate over time and provide lessons and guidance for how to build infrastructure capacity that supports implementation with fidelity, scale-up, and sustainability of EBHV programs. This brief snapshot adds to earlier work by the cross-site evaluation team that documented subcontractor plans at the end of a one-year planning period and infrastructure-building activities during the planning and early implementation period. The report addresses two main research questions at approximately the midpoint of the funding period: 1. What EBHV initiative goals did subcontractors expect to achieve, and how did they plan to do so? What people and institutions did they expect to engage at each infrastructure level? What infrastructure-building strategies did they expect to implement? What infrastructure-building short-term results and long-term outcomes did they expect to achieve? 2. In what types of infrastructure-building activities did subcontractors actually engage? How were subcontractors' activities influenced by economic and other contextual factors? How did infrastructure-building activities change over time? What were subcontractors' perceived successes in progressing toward their targeted infrastructure-building outcomes and the EBHV goals? What challenges and barriers impeded subcontractors' progress toward their targeted infrastructure-building outcomes and the EBHV goals? (author abstract)
Resource Type:
Reports & Papers
Country:
United States
State(s)/Territories/Tribal Nation(s):
California; Colorado; Delaware; Hawaii; Illinois; Minnesota; New Jersey; New York; Ohio; Oklahoma; Rhode Island; South Carolina; Tennessee; Texas; Utah

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