Cross-Site Evaluation Team
Abt Associates Inc. conducts the Project LAUNCH cross-site evaluation, which is funded through a partnership with SAMHSA and the Administration for Children and Families Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation. This evaluation will assess both the implementation of Project LAUNCH at the state, community, and tribal levels, and the overall outcomes for children, families, and systems.
The cross-site evaluation design consists of three main components:
- Site visits to all Project LAUNCH grantees. Site visits will focus on obtaining grantees’ contextual information and their implementation practices at the state, tribal, and community levels.
- Semi-annual electronic data reporting. Grantees will submit data electronically via a Web-based data reporting system. Three categories of data will be reported:
- State, community, and tribal service systems and changes to systems as a result of Project LAUNCH
- Service delivery for the previous six months, and changes in the practices of providers in primary care and early education settings
- Demographics of children and families receiving Project LAUNCH-funded services
- Review of grantee documents. Grantee environmental scans, strategic plans, and End of Year Reports, as well as findings from any rigorous studies that the grantee-specific evaluation conducts of the impacts of local evidence-based practices on children and families, will be examined. Applicable data from these documents will be used in the cross-site evaluation
The service delivery information requested in the data reporting system builds on what grantees will collect for their own grantee-specific evaluation efforts. The state-, community-, and tribal-level system data reporting elements were adapted from measures used in other cross-site evaluations and other maternal and child health performance measurement systems.
