This guide provides an overview of what needs to be considered when drafting statutory language for program evaluation to support smart state investments.
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CDEC Organizational Theories of Change
A series of theories of change (TOCs), that explicitly align the Colorado Department of Early Childhood’s (CDEC) programmatic efforts with the goals from its strategic plan, including: access and quality, workforce, family strengthening, and a unifying TOC.
Colorado Prosecutorial Dashboards: Implementation Toolkit
Toolkit for how District Attorney’s Offices can develop, implement, and use data dashboards.
Colorado’s Early Care and Education Workforce (Dashboard)
This data dashboard provides a multi-year look at the early childhood workforce from 2019 to 2021.
Universal Preschool Program Theory of Change
This high-level theory of change displays key assumptions, strategies, outcomes, and end goals for Colorado’s Universal Preschool Program.
A Toolkit for Actionable Data and Collect Impact Evaluation
The purpose of this toolkit is to support the Colorado Partnership for Thriving Families and local communities in taking a collective impact approach to implementation and evaluation.
Fostering Opportunities Logic Model
The logic model that was developed in partnership with Colorado Implementation Science Unit can be used by the Fostering Opportunities Program as a part of Step 1: theory of change by providing a road map to link efforts to outcomes.
Fostering Opportunities Implementation Pre-Launch Checklist
This checklist can be used by Fostering Opportunities leadership and staff involved in child welfare and education leadership to guide the building period before the first year of implementation.
Fostering Opportunities Implementation Initial and Established Tool
This Fostering Opportunities Implementation Tool can be used by Fostering Opportunities leadership and staff involved in child welfare and education leadership to identify areas of strength and areas for improvement in the implementation of the Fostering Opportunities program.
Fostering Opportunities Implementation Case Review Form
This Case Review Form is to be used as an in-depth review of a single case. This tool serves as a snapshot for program staff to reflect on a given student and assess if they received the entire Fostering Opportunities program over the course of the year. The goal is to raise the Specialist’s awareness […]