Lansing Equity Project Evaluation
Principal Investigator: Miles McNall
Additional CERC members: Laura Bates
Funder: W. K. Kellogg Foundation
MSU Partners: Community Evaluation and Research Collaborative; University-Community Partnerships
Community Partners: Power of We Consortium, Ingham Intermediate School District, Ingham County Health Department, One Love Global
Project Description: With our Lansing Equity Project, we are working to create a more inclusive model of ownership, empowerment, and shared decision-making within our community's early childhood system by:
- Focusing on systems that support vulnerable children through critical development stages
- Identifying what works and does not work in translating research into action
- Providing common language, best practices, and new knowledge to service providers, educators, community organizers, and interested citizens
- Implementing strategies that reduce barriers for children of color and children living in poverty
- Identifying ways to create effective policies and practices that benefit underserved populations
Please contact Miles McNall for more information
Project LAUNCH Evaluation
Principal Investigator: Miles McNall
Additional CERC members: Laura Bates
Funder: Michigan Department of Community Health
MSU Partners: Hiram Fitzgerald, Ph.D., Associate Provost for University Outreach and Engagement; Claire Vallotton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies; Tamesha Harewoord, M.A., Human Development and Family Studies
Community Partners: Michigan Department of Community Health, Michigan Department of Education, Saginaw Intermediate School District, Saginaw Public Schools
Project Description: The purpose of Project LAUNCH Michigan is to improve the comprehensive wellness of children 0-8 through expanding and enhancing the early childhood system. This will be accomplished by using a public health approach to wellness, increasing the use of evidence-based practices, expanding the integration of behavioral health into primary health, and developing a local sustainable model that can be replicated throughout the state.
Please contact Miles McNall for more information
Clinical Trial of the P.L.A.Y. Project
Principal Investigators: Richard Solomon; Laurie Van Egeren
Additional CERC members: Miles McNall
Funder: National Institute of Mental Health
MSU Partners: Community Evaluation and Research Collaborative
Community Partners: Ann Arbor Center for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics; Easter Seals
Project Description: The P.L.A.Y. Project is an intensive parent-focused intervention designed to increase functioning in children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders. This project is a pilot study of community implementation and effectiveness comparing socio-emotional and language outcomes in children and stress outcomes in parents in two Easter Seals sites providing the P.L.A.Y. Project intervention with two Easter Seals sites where children receive the community standard of care.
Please contact Laurie Van Egeren for more information
Evaluation of the Child Care Expulsion Prevention Program
Principal Investigator: John Carlson, School Psychology Program, College of Education
Additional CERC members: Laurie Van Egeren
Funder: Michigan Department of Community Health
MSU Partners: School Psychology Program, College of Education; Community Evaluation and Research Collaborative; Department of Family and Child Ecology; University-Community Partnerships
Community Partners: Michigan Department of Community Health; Michigan 4C Association (Community Coordinated Child Care); participating sites across Michigan
Project Description: The Child Care Expulsion Prevention (CCEP) initiative provides consultants and training to assist child care providers and parents with challenging behavior exhibited by children in daycare and preschool settings. This statewide evaluation assesses child, parent, and provider outcomes as well as the implementation and fidelity of the program to the principles outlined in the CCEP model. A comparison group of families referred for challenging behavior who live in regions not served by the CCEP program are also being examined to assess the impact of the program.
CCEP Surveys and Posters
Please contact Laurie Van Egeren for more information
Enhancing Early Social-Emotional Functioning in Infants and Toddlers Using a Relationship-Based Infant Mental Health Approach
Principal Investigator: Holly Brophy-Herb, Department of Family and Child Ecology
Additional CERC members: Laurie Van Egeren
Funder: U.S. Administration for Children and Families
MSU Partners: Community Evaluation and Research Collaborative; Department of Family and Child Ecology; College of Nursing; University Outreach and Engagement
Community Partners: Jackson Community Action Agency; Eight Community Action Program
Project Description: The team has developed a curriculum designed to improve early childhood social-emotional outcomes among children participating in Early Head Start programs. To evaluate the curriculum, home visitors from two sites were randomly selected to receive training in the curriculum or provide their regular services, and outcomes from parents and children from these groups are being compared.
Please contact Laurie Van Egeren for more information
Network for Young Children School Readiness Evaluation
Principal Investigator: Laurie Van Egeren
Funder: Michigan Department of Education; W.K. Kellogg Foundation
MSU Partners: Community Evaluation and Research Collaborative
Community Partners: Calhoun County Intermediate School District
Project Description: The Network for Young Children (NYC) was initially funded by the All Students Achieve--Parent Involvement and Education (ASAP-PIE) initiative to increase school readiness outcomes in children aged 0-5 through home visiting, parent education, and developmental and health screening. After that funding stream was discontinued, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation provided additional funding to obtain school-entry outcome data. The results of the NYC evaluation suggested that the majority of participating children with developmental delay improved in their developmental outcomes during their time in the program; moreover, parents exhibited increases in behaviors likely to stimulate school readiness.
Please contact Laurie Van Egeren for more information
Parenting Skills Assessment Psychometric Study
Principal Investigators: Marguerite Barratt (now at NIH); Laurie Van Egeren; Celeste Sturdevant Reed
Funder: Research, Outreach, and International Programs Seed Grant, MSU College of Human Ecology
MSU Partners: Institute for Children, Youth, and Families; Department of Psychology
Community Partners: Allegan Intermediate School District
Project Description: Allegan Intermediate School District developed an observational tool of parenting behaviors, the Parenting Skills Assessment (PSA), designed for use by home visitors in monitoring change in families. This study examined the psychometric properties of the PSA, including factor structure, reliability, and validity.
Please contact Laurie Van Egeren for more information
Promising Practices for Youth Development
Principal Investigator: Laurie Van Egeren
Additional CERC members: Celeste Sturdevant Reed
Funder: High/Scope Foundation, from a grant funded by the W.T. Grant Foundation
MSU Partners: Community Evaluation and Research Collaborative
Community Partners: High/Scope Educational Research Foundation
Project Description: High/Scope is conducting a study of the effectiveness of the Youth Program Quality Assessment, a feedback model of self-assessment and coaching to improve after-school program quality. As part of this research, CERC is conducting an analysis of staff processes to assess the implementation and use of the training program.
Please contact Laurie Van Egeren for more information
State Evaluation of All Students Achieve--Parent Involvement and Education (ASAP-PIE) Program
Principal Investigators: Hiram Fitzgerald; Marguerite Barratt (now at NIH); Laurie Van Egeren
Additional CERC members: Celeste Sturdevant Reed; Laura Bates
Funder: Michigan Department of Education
MSU Partners: Institute for Children Youth, and Families; University Outreach and Engagement
Community Partners: Michigan Department of Education; 23 intermediate school districts
Project Description: The All Students Achieve--Parent Involvement and Education Program (ASAP-PIE) was a statewide initiative designed to increase school readiness through home visits, parent-child play groups, parent education groups, developmental screening, and vision/hearing screening among children aged 0-5. Twenty-three intermediate school districts received funding; the evaluation assessed the implementation and outcomes resulting from the initiative. View reports
Please contact Laurie Van Egeren for more information
Systems Change in After-School Programs to Affect Childhood Obesity Rates
Principal Investigators: Miles McNall; Laurie Van Egeren
Funder: Mayor's Time, through a grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
MSU Partners: Community Evaluation and Research Collaborative
Community Partners: Mayor's Time; United Dairy Association; Detroit Public Health Department
Project Description: This evaluation examines the implementation and programmatic and systemic outcomes for a health and nutrition curriculum provided to organizations within the Mayor's Time network of youth-serving organizations, most of which are community- or faith-based. The evaluation is looking at organizations' use of the curriculum and increases in provision of health-focused activities, changes in students' attitudes and knowledge about making healthy food choices, and systemic changes in normative structures, resources, regulations, and operations across the Mayor's Time system.
Please contact Miles McNall for more information
