Partnership for Strong Families (PSF) is committed to understanding and enhancing the impact of Family Resource Centers (FRCs) in strengthening families and preventing child welfare involvement. As part of this federally funded, multi-year initiative, our evaluation efforts have produced promising outcomes—showing significant reductions in child welfare system involvement among FRC-engaged families, along with powerful qualitative feedback from community members about the role FRCs play in their lives. This page will serve as a hub for sharing key findings, success stories, and data highlights.
As the final report is completed, additional outcomes and insights will be added here – offering a deeper look at how FRCs are making a measurable difference across North Central Florida.
As part of the project’s larger evaluation, process evaluation activities were conducted to gain qualitative insight to the operations and service delivery of Partnership for Strong Families’ network of Family Resource Centers. This qualitative data provided the opportunity for continuous quality improvement, thus refining the services and programming offered at each FRC. As part of this process evaluation, one of the largest refinement efforts was the Strengthening Families Self-Assessment (SFSA), a structured, research informed approach to increase family strengths, enhance child development, and reduce the likelihood of child abuse and neglect. Other intentional and critical elements were the application of the Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) framework, as well as attention to our robust network of community partnerships to deliver comprehensive and tailored services to children, families, and communities. See the reports below to learn more about how these components are helping to refine and improve operations, services and programming at our FRCs.
In alignment with the Building Capacity to Evaluate Child Welfare Community Collaborations project by the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE), we will also share results and lessons learned from the national cross-site evaluation (see the report with our agency’s results here). This initiative aims to strengthen evaluation capacity among child welfare agencies and community collaborations, providing valuable insights to inform broader efforts in family strengthening and child maltreatment prevention.
Outcome Evaluation Reports:
Child Welfare Systems Outcomes – Patron involvement with PSF’s Family Resource Centers contributes to statistically significant reductions in key child welfare system metrics:
- 50% decrease in abuse hotline calls
- 64% decrease in calls screened into the Abuse Hotline
- 98.6% decrease in Out-of-Home Placements.
To view the individualized reports, please click on one of the tiles below.
This project was funded by the Children’s Bureau; Administration on Children, Youth, and Families; Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, under grant # 90CA1868. The contents of this website are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Children’s Bureau.
