Top Ten Products Released in 2024
As we enter 2025, we invite you to peruse our most popular products released in 2024. We hope you’ll take a moment to look back through these highly accessed resources from the past year and share them with colleagues.
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Insights from Measuring the Prevalence of Labor Trafficking in Houston’s Construction Industry
One type of human trafficking, labor trafficking, is defined as the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services through the use of force, fraud, or coercion. OPRE’s HTPRAP project provided the opportunity to explore this issue.
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How and Why Funders Support Engaged Research: A Perspective from a Public Funder
Funders of science and evidence-related activities are critical players in the overall evidence building and use system. This blog will highlight how funders play an important role in supporting evidence use.
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Happy Birthday OPRE!
In the spirit of human development, we can now consider OPRE a full-fledged adult at the age of 29. As an adult, we are solidifying our identity, leveraging our independence, and expanding our relationships with others.
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Celebrating Financial Capability Month
April is National Financial Capability Month, celebrating the importance of financial education and understanding barriers to financial well-being.
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Happy Data Privacy Week 2023
One of my favorite parts about working at HHS is that our predecessor agency published the privacy principles that helped lay the groundwork for all Federal privacy programs. It also influenced many of the privacy programs, policies, and laws you will find across the world!
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My A-Ha Moment
I recently attended the Transforming Evidence Network conference organized by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
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Advancing Evidence on Co-regulation in Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Programs
The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) has been engaging in work that furthers what is known about self-regulation and co-regulation among participants and staff in the human services programs funded by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF).
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How Do I Love My Job? Let Me Count the Ways.
I serve as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning, Research, and Evaluation in the Administration for Children and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In this career civil service position, I direct the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, whose mission is to advise agency leadership on improving the effectiveness and efficiency of programs designed to improve the economic and social well-being of children and families. We fulfill this mission by sponsoring research and evaluation studies through grants and contracts; coordinating performance management across the agency; and working to improve the quality and use of data. ACF’s evaluation policy includes five principles that guide our work: rigor, relevance, transparency, independence and ethics.
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Update: Embracing Learning Opportunities from COVID-19
Learn more about how OPRE and our research partners are working hard to capture information about the pandemic-related experiences of ACF programs and the families they serve.
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