Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 27/09/2002

Grant to Child Trends

Notice is hereby given that a noncompetive grant award is being made to Child Trends, Inc., to support their efforts in the development of positive outcome measures for children and youth. This one year project is being funded non-competitively because it is expected to provide immediate and useful information and guidance to this Department and other practitioners regarding positive outcome measures for early intervention programs, government indicator monitoring efforts and longitudinal research on healthy youth development. The field of youth services and policy is in significant need of consensus and clarity on ways of measuring positive inputs and outcomes, including definitions, valid data sources, methodological issues, etc. This is true particularly in areas impacting the population of youth in at-risk situations served by the Family and Youth Services Bureau. This project will solicit and compile expert input from a variety of fields which affect young people, such as services to runaway and homeless youth, other social services, health, labor force preparation, juvenile justice and the like. Through a wide-ranging call for papers, a review of existing constructs, multidis