Colorado Lab Essential Elements: Making Connections and Risk for Reward
The Colorado Lab was established with a fundamental commitment to using data to develop sustained solutions that benefit Coloradans. Our ability to fulfill this rests on a collective commitment of Colorado decision-makers to generate and use research to inform policy and practice change.
Call for Letters of Interest for Evaluation of Family Child Care Home Navigator and Substitute Pool Fund Programs
The Early Childhood Evaluation Hub is looking for an evaluation partner to study CDEC’s Family Child Care Home Navigator and Substitute Pool Fund Programs.
Colorado Lab Essential Elements: Bridge to the Research Community
Our essential element, Bridge to the Research Community, articulates how we collaborate with research and evaluation partners across Colorado. We believe that mutually beneficial partnerships within the research community are vital to developing proactive, cross-system solutions that meet the priorities of government and community partners.
Call for Letters of Interest for Evaluation of Employer-based Child Care and Emerging and Expanding Grant Programs
The Colorado Lab is contracting with evaluation partners and accepting Letters of Interest for research teams interested in receiving funding to design and conduct an evaluation of the Colorado Department of Early Childhood’s grants for employer-based child care and its Emerging and Expanding grant program.
Colorado Lab Essential Elements: Prioritize Relationships & Learn Together
Early on, we learned the importance of meeting our partners where they are. Part of relationship-building is learning together with our partners about the data and actions needed to move the needle toward desired outcomes.
Colorado Lab Celebrates 5-Year Milestone
This year marks the fifth anniversary of the Colorado Evaluation and Action Lab!
As this milestone approached, we reflected on the “essential elements” that make our work most effective. We’ll be sharing insights about these key elements throughout the year in a series of blog posts. We hope you’ll follow along, asking questions, sharing feedback, and offering ideas in the spirit of working together to make Colorado’s policy lab a valuable resource for the people of our state well into the future.
Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Researcher to Support RISE
The Colorado Lab seeks to add a postdoctoral researcher to support evidence-building among recipients of Response, Innovation, and Student Equity (RISE) Education Funds.
Call for External Research Team for Rigorous Evaluation of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) under Colorado’s Family First Strategy
The Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) has partnered with the Colorado Evaluation and Action Lab (Colorado Lab) at University of Denver to coordinate rigorous evaluation of practices prioritized by the state for evidence-building under the Family First Prevention Services Act. As part of this effort, the Colorado Lab is accepting Letters of Interest for research teams interested in receiving funding to design and conduct a rigorous evaluation of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) in Colorado.
Call for External Research Partners
The Colorado Lab is looking for external researcher partners to support us in executing our deliverable-based projects with state and local partners and promoting knowledge-building through peer-reviewed publication and other scholarly dissemination.