A6 - Evaluation of Kinship Navigator Programs: Everything You Always Wanted to Know, But Were Afraid to Ask

This presentation introduces the evaluation approaches of three different kinship navigator federal demonstration projects, including: Kin-Tech (Children’s Home, Inc.), Kinship Support Network Navigator Program (Edgewood Center for Children and Families) and the online 211-iFoster Kinship Navigator projects (United Ways of California). No topics are off limits in this open discussion format of evaluation issues, including: study design, institutional review boards, avoiding respondent burden, data sharing, capturing the dose of intervention, handling control conditions and past project impact, recruitment of study participants, and capturing all program nuances. Presenters will provide lessons learned and allow participants to discuss their own evaluation issues.

Presenter(s): Michelle Rosenthal, Edgewood Center for Children and Families, San Francisco, CA; Kerry Littlewood, School of Social Work, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC; and Larry Cooper, The Children's Home, Tampa, FL