Projects

Projects by Evaluation Strategies and Evaluation Strategies Staff

Grant Writing

Alternatives for Girls (2021 - Current). Primary grant writing for non-profit Alternatives for Girls across all programs. Amounts raised to 2024 over $6,000,000.

Alternatives for Girls (2016). Administration on Children, Youth and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Personal Responsibility Education Program Innovative Strategies HHS-2016-ACF-ACYF-AP-1153. Funded for $3,900,000.

Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency (2015). Head Start and/or Early Head Start Grantee – Wayne County with the exception of the City of Detroit, Michigan. Funded for $28,735,134.

North Dakota Department of Public Instruction (2017). Striving Reading Comprehensive Literacy Grant CFDA 84.371C. Funded for $28,800,000.

Sunbeam Family Services (2014). Early Head Start Expansion and EHS-Child Care Partnership Grants.
Funded for $27,219,860.

Matrix Human Services (2013) Head Start and Early Head Start Application. Funded for $125,000,000.

Evaluation Services

Alternatives for Girls (2020-Current). Evaluator for second Personal Responsibility Education Innovative Strategies Program (PREIS). A person-level randomized control trial evaluation of AFG EmpowHer curriculum for middle school age girls.

Alternatives for Girls (2016-2021). Evaluator for Personal Responsibility Education Innovative Strategies Program (PREIS). A person-level randomized control trial evaluation of AFG Go Grrrls curriculum for high school age girls. Evalualtion resulted in curriculum designated as evidenced based curriculum by HHS.

AZ Department of Human Services Nutrition Network (2016 to present). State-wide stratified evaluation services for state level recipe project.

Matrix Human Services, Detroit MI (2015 to 2018). Evaluation of Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership.

Detroit Parent Network, Detroit, MI (co-Principal Investigator). (2012-2015). A person-level randomized control trial evaluation of the Pathways to Literacy home visitation model.

AZ Department of Human Services (2015 to 2017). Evaluation services for on-going early childhood and adolescent obesity prevention program.

Brilliant Detroit (2014 – 2020). Technical assistance and evaluation services for neighborhood based community intervention.

United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona (2013 - present). Evaluation of multi-strategy evaluation of work being carried out as part of an Innovative Early Childhood Professional Development Grant (Communities of Practice)

Matrix Human Services, Detroit MI (2012 to 2014). A person-level randomized control trial evaluation of Born to Succeed, a targeted parenting intervention to impact the school readiness of urban, low-income.

Public Policy

Arizona Early Learning Workforce Knowledge and Competencies (2013)
Arizona Early Learning Workforce Career Lattice (2013).

Maryland Knowledge and Competency Framework for Child and Youth Care Professionals (2015)

Technical Assistance

Reading Works (2016-2017) Technical assistance and evaluation design for adult literacy collective impact model.

Washtenaw Intermediate School District (2017 – present). Development of professional development system for early intervention providers.

Mott Community College (2016-present). Technical assistant and grant support and development for MCC Board of Directors Funding Strategies.

Community Needs Assessments