Recipe for Success: Key Ingredients of Successful Proposals

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Recipe for Success Key Ingredients of
Successful Proposals

• Anne Gienapp, MPA Emilee Quinn, MPH
• Organizational Research Services
• 2009 Prevent Child Abuse Hawaii Conference
• April 29, 2009
• 206.728.0474
• www.organizationalresearch.com

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Workshop Outcomes

• Increased understanding of Protective Factor
  Framework
• Increased ability to clarify program theory and
  outcomes using logic model thinking
• Increased knowledge and comfort about elements of
  HCTF grant proposal

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Key Ingredient Child Abuse Neglect
PreventionPROTECTIVE FACTORS
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What Are Protective Factors?

• Based on literature about best practices in child
  abuse prevention
• Areas that make the most difference in
  determining a childs chances for growing up in a
  protective environment
• Have been adapted for use by CBCAP, FRIENDS
  National Resource Center, HCTF
• Programs that integrate protective factors
• have the greatest chance of preventing
• child abuse and supporting families.

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Protective Factors

• Protective Factors
• Nurturing and Attachment
• Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development
• Social Connections
• Parental Resilience
• Concrete Supports in Times of Need

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HCTF Priority Protective Factors

• Nurturing Attachment
• Giving your children the love and respect they
  need
• Parents and caregivers
• Respond appropriately to the basic needs of their
  babies and young children
• Stimulate healthy brain development
• Develop a positive and secure attachment with
  their child

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Priority Protective Factors, cont.

• Knowledge of Parenting Child Development
• Being a great parent is part natural and part
  learned
• Parents and caregivers
• Understand the usual steps in their childs
  development, and promote healthy development
• Know how to recognize if their child needs
  special help

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Priority Protective Factors, cont.

• Social Connections
• Having friends to lean on and talk to
• Parents and caregivers
• Have the ability to access needed resources
• Engage with others in a socially
  acceptable/positive manner
• Develop informal relationships with others who
  are caring for children

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Identifying Your Protective Factor

• Which of HCTFs priority protective factors does
  your program or organization PRIMARILY address?
• What specific aspects of your program (e.g.,
  activities, curricula) are related to this
  protective factor?

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Key ingredient LOGIC MODEL THINKING
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Logic Model Thinking

• Identifies process outcomes
• Clarifies each program element
• Shows relationship of inputs (resources
  activities) to expected results or outcomes
• Helps identify the major questions you want the
  evaluation to answer

• Provides a graphic summary of how program parts
  relate to the whole
• Makes explicit the underlying theory of a program
• Identifies categories to measure in the program
  evaluation

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Logic Model Thinking
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Outcomes

• Good outcomes are usually
• Written as change statements
• Related to the activities of the program
• Realistic and attainable
• Within the programs ability to influence
• Appropriate something the program can be held
  accountable for
• Can be short-, intermediate-, or long-term

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Outcomes

• Change Statements - Increase, maintenance, or
  decrease of behavior, attitude, etc.
• Example Increased immunization among young
  children
• Targets - Specific levels of achievement
• Example Immunize 80 of two year-old children
  in the community according to recommended public
  health schedule

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Outcomes Change Statements
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Connecting Outcomes to Protective Factors

• Protective Factor
• Knowledge of Child Development
• Outcome
• Increased understanding of typical developmental
  milestones
• Increased parenting behaviors that foster optimal
  development
• Protective Factor
• Social Support
• Outcome
• Increased knowledge of resources to support
  family/parenting
• Decreased sense of isolation

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Prioritizing Outcomes
(Note you will only need to measure one
outcome)

• Which outcomes are most important to achieve?
• Which outcomes are most meaningful?
• Which outcomes are most useful?
• Which outcomes are most reasonable?
• Which outcomes are most realistic?

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Key Ingredient Resources!

• FRIENDS, the National Resource Center for CBCAP.
  Provides training and technical assistance to
  federally funded CBCAP Programs. Evaluation
  Toolkit
• http//www.friendsnrc.org/outcome/toolkit/index.ht
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• Organizational Research Services. Publications
  and resources for program evaluation, including a
  compendium of tools for measuring family
  support/child abuse prevention outcomes.
• http//www.organizationalresearch.com
• (Publications and Resources tab)

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• Information from HCTF
• Questions?
• Comments?