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  • State Seminars
  • Policymakers
    • State Seminars
    • Family Data
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    • State Seminars
    • Family Impact
    • Teaching Family Policy
    • Skill Building
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Since 1976, Federal Family Impact Seminars

Building capacity for family centered policymaking. Read more...

ASPA publishes Researcher–Policymaker Partnerships book

Strategies for launching and sustaining successful collaborations. Read more...

Family-Focused Foster Care seminars conducted throughout US

With support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, WI, NC, MA, VA, RI, NC, and LA held Family Impact Seminars on Family-Focused Foster Care Policy.

Policy Options to Address Youth Trauma

Massachusetts focuses FIS on Policy Options to Address Youth Trauma.  

Homelessness and Families

Utah focuses FIS on Impacts and Cost Estimates of Homelessness and Families. 

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Faculty

Resources to Build Skills

  • Policy/Program Evaluation
  • American Evaluation Association

    Assessment and Evaluation Resources on the Net

    Centre for Health Promotion, University of Toronto

    Electronic Resources for Evaluators

    Electronic Statistics Textbook

    Evaluating the National Outcomes

    Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University

    GAO Report: Designing Evaluations

    GAO Report: Quantitative Data Analysis

    InnoNet Toolbox

    National Youth Development Information Center

    North Carolina State Extension, Beyond Data

    On-line Evaluation Resource Library

    Sociometrics Evaluation Resources

    The Benchmark Exchange

    United Way Resource Network

  • Public Issues Education
  • Family Policy Matter: How Policymaking Affects Families and What Professionals Can Do, 2nd Ed. by Karen Bogenschneider

     

    How to Impact Public Policy for Families by Georgia Stevens

     

    Institute for Public Issues Education

     

    Public Issues Education: Increasing Competence in Resolving Public Issues by Duane Dale and Alan Hahn

     

    Public Policy Education by Richard Barrows

     

  • Professional Skills to Inform Family Policy
  • Now Hear This: The 9 Laws of Successful Advocacy Communications, Fenton Communications

    Wisconsin Council on Children and Families Legislative Advocacy Guide

  • Translating Research Into Practice
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Since 1976, Federal Family Impact Seminars

Building capacity for family centered policymaking. Read more...

ASPA publishes Researcher–Policymaker Partnerships book

Strategies for launching and sustaining successful collaborations. Read more...

Family-Focused Foster Care seminars conducted throughout US

With support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, WI, NC, MA, VA, RI, NC, and LA held Family Impact Seminars on Family-Focused Foster Care Policy.

Policy Options to Address Youth Trauma

Massachusetts focuses FIS on Policy Options to Address Youth Trauma.  

Homelessness and Families

Utah focuses FIS on Impacts and Cost Estimates of Homelessness and Families. 

View All

Students Opportunities for
Students
Faculty Opportunities for
Faculty
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