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.
2025
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 Maintenance of Effort Opportunities Memo
This memo documents background information, opportunities, and recommendations for meeting Colorado’s Family First Maintenance of Effort (MOE) requirements and maximizing drawn down of federal funds to reimburse delivery of Family First programs and services.
State-Funded Grant Programs: Guidance for Legislators in Bill Drafting
This guide details how lawmakers can use the statutory process for authorizing new or reauthorizing existing state-funded grant programs to improve the collection and application of data to affect meaningful change.
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.
SFY26 Universal Preschool Annual Evidence-Building Strategy Report
This report describes the strategies that will be used by the Universal Preschool (UPK) Evidence-Building Hub to support UPK’s evaluation and evidence-informed design efforts in State Fiscal Year 2026.
Colorado UPK Process Evaluation One-Pager
A one-pager describing Child Trends’ process evaluation plans for Colorado’s Universal Preschool Program, including engagement with various partners.
Family First Annual Evidence-Building Strategy Report SFY26
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, […]