Evaluability Assessment of the Presidents Family Justice Center Initiative

Family Justice Centers varied at the time of the report, ranging from those who were still in the earliest stages of working out partner agreements to those estimating client intake for early in the summer of 2005. However, even those FJCs furthest along were not ready for evaluation nor were ready for a full site visit to collect data. Therefore, NIJ and OVW determined that it would be most useful for Abt staff to move to the second task, to develop a prototype evaluation design for use in both individual site and cross site evaluation when all sites are fully operational and ready for scrutiny.
This report documents the second task. It is based on a review of logic models for each Family Justice Center, examination of the development of data management systems (as reported in the spring of 2005), conversations and a site visit to the San Diego Family Justice Foundation, a technical assistance provider under the initiative, and discussion and on-site observation of training in the New York City site on data management and confidentiality by the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV), also a PFJCI technical assistance provider. This report will discuss a Brief Summary of Relevant Site Status Information; Linking Program Logic Models to Evaluation Design; Measuring Program Processes; and Measuring the Program.

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