On August 12-14, 2013, the Children’s Bureau will host the third National Child Welfare Evaluation Summit. Building on the successes of the 2009 and 2011 Summits, the Children’s Bureau will again convene child welfare professionals and stakeholders from across the country, representing a variety of jurisdictions, institutions, roles, disciplines, and perspectives, to discuss evaluation and evidence in child welfare. Similar to previous Summits, the 2013 National Child Welfare Evaluation Summit will offer plenary, workshop, roundtable, and poster sessions on a diversity of topics related to Building Evidence, Strengthening Practice, and Informing Policy.
The Children’s Bureau is particularly interested in the utility of evaluation when planning for change, building knowledge about program and policy interventions, and effectively spreading information and innovation. Participants will have opportunities to discuss how evaluation expertise and methods can be used more effectively to:
- Formulate and refine questions or areas of inquiry
- Explore and assess problems and populations within various contexts
- Examine and articulate the theory underlying practice, program, or policy
- Set meaningful and achievable objectives, action steps, benchmarks, and outcomes
- Inform the development, selection, and/or adaptation of interventions
- Monitor processes, provide feedback, and support program improvement
- Measure the efficacy, effectiveness, and impact of interventions
- Monitor and support effective dissemination and implementation
When
Monday, August 12 through Wednesday, August 14, 2013.
Where
Grand Hyatt Washington
1000 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
(202) 582-1234
What
Plenary sessions, panel presentations, workshops, roundtables, poster sessions.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2011 National Child Welfare Summit. We hope that you will be able to participate in the next Summit. Materials related to the previous Summits, including PowerPoint presentations, audio recordings, and WebEx recordings are available now on the Past Summits page.
Save the Date for 2013!
We recently sent e-mails to everyone on our distribution list with a “Save the Date” flier for the next Summit. If you did not receive this e-mail and are interested in receiving future updates, please e-mail us your contact information at cw-evaluationsummit@jbsinternational.com. For a copy of this flier, click here. Similar to 2011, we intend on having a Call for Abstracts. We will post more information on this in the future.
The 2013 National Child Welfare Evaluation Summit is intended to foster open and productive dialogue among child welfare professionals and colleagues from other fields.
The Summit is specifically targeted to:
- Child welfare researchers and evaluators
- Public, private, and tribal child welfare agency administrators, program managers, data managers, research and evaluation staff, and quality assurance staff
- Principal investigators, project directors, and evaluators of Children's Bureau discretionary and formula grants and contracts
- Professionals from foundations, advocacy organizations, and think tanks that support best practice in child welfare
- Court Improvement Program coordinators
- Child welfare consultants and technical assistance providers
- Consumers of child welfare research and evaluation
- Public and private partners, researchers, evaluators, and stakeholders from other fields