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Building America’s Workforce
Building America’s Workforce analyzes strategies to improve workers’ skills and meet employers’ needs.
Tags: Anti-Poverty & Self-Sufficiency & Workforce Development, Deeper Dive, Evidence-based & Best Practice Resources
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National Mentoring Resource Center
The National Mentoring Resource Center is a comprehensive and reliable resource for mentoring tools, program and training materials, as well as access to no-cost training and technical assistance for youth mentoring practitioners looking for support in more deeply incorporating evidence-based practices to support positive youth outcomes.
Tags: Children & Youth Development, Deeper Dive, Evidence-based & Best Practice Resources
Home Visiting Yearbook
The National Home Visiting Resource Center (NHVRC) created the Home Visiting Yearbook to present the most comprehensive picture available of home visiting on the national and state levels. The data includes information from 15 evidence-based home visiting models, 9 emerging models, 2019 information on how many families and children could benefit from home visiting, and state data tables on the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV).
Tags: Children & Youth Development, Deeper Dive, Evidence-based & Best Practice Resources, Families
Clearinghouse for Labor Evaluation and Research
CLEAR reviews studies in a variety of labor-related topic areas that are determined in collaboration with the Department of Labor (DOL) Chief Evaluation Office and DOL agency staff. The information is up to year 2014, and includes topic areas such as low-income adults, child labor. older workers, literacy, community college, reentry, veterans, women in STEM and more.
Tags: Anti-Poverty & Self-Sufficiency & Workforce Development, Crime & Criminal Justice, Deeper Dive, Evidence-based & Best Practice Resources, Life Skills and Finance, Veterans & Military
Model Programs Guide – The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s (OJJDP’s) Model Programs Guide (MPG) contains information about evidence-based juvenile justice and youth prevention, intervention, and reentry programs. It is a resource for practitioners and communities about what works, what is promising, and what does not work in juvenile justice, delinquency prevention, and child protection and safety.
Tags: Children & Youth Development, Crime & Criminal Justice, Deeper Dive, Evidence-based & Best Practice Resources
Kids Count Data Book
The 32nd edition of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDS COUNT® Data Book describes how children across the United States were faring before — and during — the coronavirus pandemic. This 2021publication continues to deliver the Foundation’s annual state rankings and the latest available data on child well-being. It identifies multiyear trends — comparing statistics from 2010 to 2019. In addition, the report shares data on how families endured throughout the pandemic.
Tags: Children & Youth Development, Data Source, Early Childcare & Education (birth - 4), Health & Wellness, Housing & Homelessness, K-12 Education
Urban Data Catalog
The Urban Institute’s Data Catalog includes data sets on education, family, health policy, poverty, children, labor force, housing, race, economic growth, youth, immigration and more.
Tags: Anti-Poverty & Self-Sufficiency & Workforce Development, Children & Youth Development, College Preparation, Data Source, Early Childcare & Education (birth - 4), Families, Health & Wellness, Housing & Homelessness, Immigration, K-12 Education
What Works in Reentry Clearinghouse
What Works in Reentry Clearinghouse is a “one-stop shop” for research on the effectiveness of a wide variety of reentry programs and practices. It features programs rated by the National Institute of Justice’s CrimeSolutions.gov, a website that presents programs that have undergone rigorous evaluations and meta-analyses. CrimeSolutions.gov assesses the strength of the evidence about whether these programs achieve criminal justice, juvenile justice, or crime victim services outcomes in order to inform practitioners and policy makers about what works, what doesn’t, and what’s promising.
Tags: Crime & Criminal Justice, Deeper Dive, Evidence-based & Best Practice Resources
HHS Teen Pregnancy and Prevention Evidence Review
The Teen Pregnancy Prevention Evidence Review identified programs with evidence of effectiveness in reducing teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, and associated sexual risk behaviors. This site allows you to find and compare programs, as well as review resources. No longer an active program, the information found on this website is archival as of September 2019.
Tags: Children & Youth Development, Deeper Dive, Evidence-based & Best Practice Resources, Health & Wellness
Crime Solutions
The National Institute of Justice’s CrimeSolutions data can be used to help policymakers inform funding decisions, trainers improve their training programs, and researchers become more informed on criminal justice research. CrimeSolutions is comprised of two components — a web-based clearinghouse of programs and practices and a process for identifying and rating those programs and practices. After the programs and practices undergo rigorous evaluations and meta-analyses, the site assesses the strength of the evidence about whether these programs achieve criminal justice, juvenile justice, and crime victim services outcomes in order to inform practitioners and policy makers about what works, what doesn’t, and what’s promising.
Tags: Crime & Criminal Justice, Deeper Dive, Evidence-based & Best Practice Resources
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