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)
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Expanding the Evidence Universe: Doing Better By Knowing More
December 2011
This report provides recommendations related to expanding the knowledge base necessary to improve outcomes for children, families, and communities and was written for discussion at the Harold Richman Public Policy Symposium, the first in a series of forums honoring the memory of Harold Richman, co-founder of CSSP.
(60 pp)
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Service Coordination to Achieve Results in Promise Neighborhoods.
January 2010
This brief provides information on service coordination and capacity building for Promise Neighborhoods based on previous place-based initiatives.