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Community Services and Strategies

Program Manager - Kathleen Hebbeler

Staff of the Community Services and Strategies Program conduct research and evaluations addressing interrelationships among children, families, and communities, recognizing that children and families can achieve their full potential only when their communities are healthy and supportive.

The program focuses on community-based interventions and includes participatory evaluations carried out with local community-based organizations and randomized field experiments. We also assess community-building strategies—communities’ efforts to identify and mobilize their resources to address a community-identified need. In contrast to discrete categorical program models, these multifaceted strategies cross organizational and sector boundaries and are unique to their individual communities.

SRI evaluations of community-based services and strategies are multiyear and multimethod. Our work also includes assisting program developers, such as foundations and other funders, to conceptualize the key components of new community-based efforts and to articulate pathways to expected outcomes. We also have provided technical assistance on using evaluation to support community-building and have produced guidebooks to assist communities in conducting evaluations.

Current Projects

• Santa Clara County Regional Partnership Grant for Children Affected by Methamphetamine or Other Substance Abuse
• First 5 San Mateo County Comprehensive Evaluation Services
• First 5 San Mateo’s Special Needs Project Evaluation Services
• Saint Paul Early Childhood Scholarship Program Evaluation
• Evaluation of Ready Schools Florida
• Evaluation of the Minnesota Department of Human Services' Child Care Assistance Program School Readiness Connections Project

Past Projects

Additional Community Services and Strategies projects >>