Delivered annually, this report includes evidence-building priorities for SFY26. The report can be used by CDEC and the ECLC’s Compensation and Benefits Working Group to inform development policy strategies to increase early childhood workforce compensation.
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Colorado Early Care and Education Workforce Compensation Patterns
Using administrative data from the Colorado Department of Early Childhood and the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, this report presents findings from an analysis of wages among ECE professionals in center-based programs during the 2022–2023 school year. It serves as a foundation for CDEC to design, test, and evaluate targeted interventions aimed at increasing […]
Evaluation of the School Counselor Corps Grant Program Technical Report
Final evaluation report for the School Counselor Corps Grant Program, aimed at improving high school graduation rates and postsecondary and workforce readiness and support work-based learning awareness, education, and opportunities by increasing the availability of effective school-based counseling services within K-12 schools.
Imagination Library: Effects on Kindergarten Readiness and Skills
Final evaluation report for ILCO, examining program effects on children’s kindergarten readiness and early literacy skills.
Family First Annual Rigorous Evaluation Report SFY25
Delivered in November each year, this report includes recommendations for prioritizing additional programs and services for evidence building and possible inclusion in Colorado’s Plan, and opportunities to advance Colorado’s prevention strategy. The report can be used by the Colorado Department of Human Services’ Office of Children, Youth, and Families team, Child Welfare Prevention Task Group, […]
Early Childhood Stimulus Evaluation Hub Evidence-Building Briefs
The Hub worked with evaluation teams to publish evidence-building briefs for the Colorado Department of Early Childhood.
Perinatal Substance Use Coordinated Care and Support Pilot: A Community-Based Approach to Plans of Safe Care (Implementation Learnings Brief: Year One)
This brief summarizes learning and design insights from year one of implementation of the Plan of Safe Care Pilot in the San Luis Valley.
Crossover Youth: Informing an Approach to Routine and Replicable Data
Report on how how to approach generating data on court case type for youth in out-of-home care.
Building a Sustainable and Replicable Approach To Estimating the Prevalence of Youth Homelessness: Final Report
This report shares an estimate of youth homelessness in Colorado and discusses the implications for the field and key considerations when using administrative data to estimate the prevalence of youth homelessness.
Colorado Community Aging in Place—Advancing Better Living for Elders (CAPABLE) Evaluation (Final Report)
Evaluation report of CAPABLE expansion to adults 18 and over to inform recommendations for making CAPABLE a long-term Medicaid benefit in Colorado.