This brief compiles case studies from various initiatives and makes the concept of a “culture of evidence” accessible with illustrations of an approach to improve equitable outcomes for families and communities.
(5 pp)
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Catawba County Child Wellbeing Project
2017
This brief explores how the initiative uses and generates evidence in order to achieve its goals and how it came to choose the "Success Coach" model.
(7 pp)
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Carnegie Math Pathways
2016
This report investigates Pathways through the lens of how it uses and generates evidence to achieve its goal of building a substantial infrastructure to support and embed quality improvement.
(9 pp)
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Better Evidence for Decision-Makers
July 2016
This report explains why decision-makers need better support and to be truly "evidence-informed," as well as specific recommendations about how to move forward.
(15 pp)
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Better Evidence for Decision-Makers: Emerging Pathways
March 2017
This brief explains the need for "a broader range of evidence" for decision-makers, examples of what that looks like, and recommendations on policy and policy implementation.
(12 pp)
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Asthma Improvement Collaborative (AIC)
2016
This brief details the AIC's powerful approaches to evidence and their efforts to improve outcomes among disadvantaged children, families, youth, and neighborhoods.
(7 pp)
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Maintaining and Expanding the Pipeline: Guidance, Strategies, and Reflections on Sustaining a Promise Neighborhood
2017
This brief provides a framework and guiding questions to support Promise Neighborhoods in preparing for sustainability, with the approach that sustainability should be incorporated into overall strategy development.
(32 pp)
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Fostering Resident Voice and Influence in Community Change: The Making Connections Experience with Resident Engagement and Leadership
2016
This report shares information on resident engagement from start-up to phase down and addresses strategies for seeding initial conversations, results-based leadership training, and sustaining resident engagement strategies.
(36 pp)
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Building a Culture of Results: A Guide to Emerging Practices in Promise Neighborhoods Summary
January 2016
This guidebook highlights the "culture of results" adopted by Promise Neighborhoods and how the program ensures that effective solutions are launched, tracked, improved, and sustained.
(72 pp)
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An Evidence Framework to Improve Results
November 2014
This report explores the question of how we use a framework of continuous learning to obtain and apply the kinds of evidence that will be most useful in achieving significantly greater outcomes.
(48 pp)