What We Do
OPRE supports ACF programs and the populations they serve through rigorous research and evaluation projects and by increasing the quality, usefulness, sharing, and analysis of data while protecting privacy and confidentiality to support data-driven decision making.
ACF Data Strategy
The ACF Data Strategy envisions critical initiatives to ensure that data delivers for ACF’s mission. It improves federal leadership, fosters collaboration, optimizes resource allocation for efficient human services and supports ACF grant recipients with essential program management information.
ACF Evaluation Policy
ACF’s evaluation policy confirms our commitment to conducting evaluations and to using evidence from evaluations to inform policy and practice.
ACF Research and Evaluation Agenda
The ACF Research and Evaluation Agenda draws upon the learning agendas being developed with ACF program offices and highlights priority questions; key past, ongoing, and future research and evaluation efforts; and active engagement activities for each program.
Research and Evaluation Clearinghouses
In addition to building evidence through a broad range of rigorous empirical studies, OPRE catalogs, reviews, and disseminates evidence related to ACF programs.