OPRE Insights Blog

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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OPRE’s 2024 in Review

From groundbreaking studies to innovative partnerships, OPRE is leading research, evaluation and data initiatives to inform policies, support programs, and, ultimately, make communities stronger and healthier. 

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Will AI Replace Knowledge Brokers?

New generative AI tools, may offer an easily accessible, quick way for policymakers or practitioners to tap research without waiting for researchers to do a systematic synthesis of the research or even the time it takes to reach out to a researcher to set up a conversation. 

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Announcing the New Office of the Chief Data Officer and Office of Research and Evaluation within OPRE

We are excited to announce that this week we have taken a significant next step by formally creating two new offices under OPRE: the Office of Research and Evaluation  and the Office of the Chief Data Officer. 

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Building Evidence to Address How Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping the Nature of Work

AI has increasingly been at the forefront of policy and research conversations about the changing nature of work. Learn how OPRE will continue to sponsor rigorous research to address knowledge gaps and build evidence in the changing market.

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Preventing and Addressing Intimate Partner Violence in Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Programs: Spotlighting the Strategies To Respond to Intimate Violence Effectively (STRIVE) Project

OPRE is proud to spotlight our new Strategies To Respond to Intimate Violence Effectively (STRIVE) project. It aims to generate evidence and resources to address intimate partner violence (IPV) and teen dating violence (TDV) in Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood (HMRF) program settings

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Leveraging Data to Improve Lives

ACF and OPRE are committed to recognizing and harnessing the power of data to help achieve our mission. Learn about the inaugural ACF Data Strategy.

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Building Bridges to Support Evidence Use Through Our Conferences

OPRE's RECS and NRCEC conferences support evidence use by ensuring research and evaluation is relevant to policy and practice; building trusted relationship networks between researchers, policymakers, and practitioners; and offering a regularly occurring opportunity to share and discuss findings.

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