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Since its inception, Healthy Families Florida (HFF) has undergone annual and long term evaluations of the program’s implementation and impacts, with child maltreatment being the key program outcome being measured.
Healthy Families Florida Five-year Evaluation Report (2005)
The Ounce of Prevention Fund of Florida contracted with independent evaluators, Williams, Stern & Associates (WSA), to conduct a five-year evaluation covering the period January 1, 1999 to December 31, 2003. The evaluation report provides a measure of program efficacy and effectiveness. You may view or download the Five-year Evaluation Report here* or if you like, view the Executive Summary* .
Since the completion of the five-year evaluation, the Research, Evaluation and Systems unit at the Ounce of Prevention Fund of Florida has been conducting ongoing performance monitoring
and special studies. The studies further address issues that merit attention based on findings in previous evaluation or those that emerge in performance monitoring, quality assurance, training or opportunities for project staff to share concerns and ideas for in-depth analysis.
Addendum to the HFF 5-Year Evaluation Report*
This document is an addendum to the Healthy Families Florida (HFF) five year evaluation report released in February 2005. Findings based on the impact analysis presented in the February 2005 report indicated that Healthy Families Florida is effective in preventing child maltreatment. The purpose of this addendum was to supplement the impact analysis in the February 2005 report. It explains the additional analysis of the data used in the five-year evaluation and confirms the findings presented in the February 2005 report. The supplemental analysis presented in the addendum was conducted in collaboration with Dr. Dan McGee at Florida State University and was released in June 2007.
*Please note: These documents are in the Portable Document Format(PDF). You may need to download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view them.
Falconer, M.K., Clark, M.H., & Parris, D. (2011). Validity in an evaluation of Healthy Families Florida--A program to prevent child abuse and neglect. Children and Youth Services Review, 33, 66-77.
This article presents how threats to validity can be identified and addressed in an evaluation of Healthy Families Florida, a flagship home visiting program for the prevention of child abuse and neglect. The evaluation was conducted between 1999 and 2003. Because of the reliance on a quasi-experimental design with several comparison groups, statistical techniques were applied to minimize threats to internal validity (selection bias). The statistical techniques were traditional covariate analyses and propensity score adjustments. The findings provided additional evidence regarding the effectiveness of the home visiting program in preventing child abuse and neglect. Construct validity in the measurement of the occurrence of child maltreatment was discussed and concerns regarding external validity were highlighted. Recommendations are also presented for evaluations using quasi-experimental designs that are relevant to issues addressed in the article.
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