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Healthy Steps for Young
Children
The Quality Child Care
Project (TQCCP) Hartford Geriatric Social Work
Initiative
National Evaluation of Communities in
Schools
Association for Supervision
and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Americans Over 55 At Work Program
Maine Obesity Primary Prevention Project U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development's (HUD) Housing Opportunities
for Persons with AIDS Program (HOPWA)
Learning Program for Private
Foundation
Healthy Steps for Young Children
ICF International has supported Healthy Steps
for Young Children since its inception in 1994,
including development, implementation, and evaluation.
Healthy Steps is a national initiative to redesign
primary health care for young children by providing
a patient-responsive, developmentally-oriented
approach to pediatric primary care. ICF is responsible
for overall program management, including oversight
of the national evaluation to identify the impacts
of Healthy Steps on outcomes for children, parents,
and medical practices, as well as to determine
the costs of the program and relate those costs
to outcomes. ICF also provides technical assistance
to operating sites on budget and operational
issues; and manages the strategic and operational
aspects of the implementation and diffusion of
the program. ICF designed, constructed, and operates
the Healthy Steps Web site (http://www.healthysteps.org)
and prepared the award-winning Healthy Steps
brochure.
The Quality Child Care Project (TQCCP)
For the Annie E. Casey Foundation, ICF International
developed and implemented The Quality Child
Care Project (TQCCP) to support state efforts
that focus on creating and enhancing quality
strategies for early childhood delivery systems.
TQCCP works with states to transfer successful
elements of the military child development
system to state and local communities. ICF
staff refined the military model and developed
technical assistance materials that can be
replicated nationwide, implemented and evaluated
the military model in the pilot states,
provided TA to states, and conducts ongoing
evaluation.
Hartford Geriatric Social Work Initiative
For
The John A. Hartford Foundation, ICF International
designed and provided oversight for the outcomes
evaluation of the Hartford Geriatric Social
Work Initiative. As part of this project, ICF
also prepared the paper, The
Labor Market for Social Workers: A First Look, which
continues to receive positive attention within
the social work community.
National Evaluation of Communities in Schools
Communities in Schools (CIS), Inc.. is a nationwide,
multi-site initiative to help students successfully
learn, stay in school, and prepare for life.
The Atlantic Philanthropies awarded a multi-year
contract to Communities in Schools, Inc.,
to conduct an evaluation of its national network
and programming. ICF International is assessing
the effectiveness of the overall program
and the contributions of specific program
elements. The major activities include: preparing
an evaluation database, conducting an internal
and external analysis of the CIS Network,
and designing and conducting quasi-experiential
and experimental studies.
Association for Supervision and Curriculum
Development (ASCD)
The Association for Supervision and Curriculum
Development (ASCD) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan
organization that represents 175,000 educators
from more than 135 countries. ASCD has relied
upon ICF International to provide research
and writing services for its premier member
publication, InfoBrief, a quarterly, eight-page
policy brief that provides concise information
on current education issues to policymakers,
key education decision makers (e.g., district
leaders), journalists, and others who seek
authoritative and trusted information regarding
the linkage of education policies and effective,
evidenced-based practice.
Americans Over 55 At Work Program
For The Commonwealth Fund, ICF International
provided program direction for the Americans
Over 55 At Work Program. ICF developed a
program agenda and prepared plans for national
surveys and performed the statistical analyses
of the survey data. The project resulted
in two books, ten published papers, and numerous
reports.
Maine Obesity Primary Prevention Project
For The Bingham Program and The Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation, ICF International organized
this effort to enable obstetricians, pediatricians,
and family physicians to counsel parents
of young children and pregnant women to focus
on healthy nutrition and physical activity.
This primary prevention project was pilot-tested
and evaluated in Farmington, Maine, and Trexlertown,
Pennsylvania.
U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development's (HUD) Housing Opportunities
for Persons with AIDS Program (HOPWA)
After
five years of implementing this program,
the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development asked ICF International to
conduct an in-depth review of the HOPWA
Program to
document how funds were being used, determine if the program was serving
customer needs, specify benefits, and identify
leveraging opportunities with other supportive
service programs. ICF International analyzed five years of program information,
conducted extensive mail surveys with housing assistance providers, interviewed
program clients, and visited six different communities. ICF International
then developed
recommendations to better target the program and leverage the program's resources
with other assistance programs to increase the number of recipients.
Learning
Program for Private Foundation
For a private
foundation, ICF International developed and
presented to the board an evaluation framework.
The goal is to develop for the foundation
a focus on learning from projects via program
monitoring, and evaluating and disseminating
this learning to grantees, the public, and
the foundation. |
