The Assessment of Foundational Capacity is designed to measure the extent to which jurisdictions have key foundational organizational capacities in place that are considered to be indicators of the health and functioning of child welfare systems. These capacities include organizational resources, infrastructure, knowledge and skills, culture and climate, and engagement and partnership. The data from this assessment will provide contextual information helpful to interpreting the effects of the services provided by the Capacity Building Collaborative.
The assessment will be administered to all jurisdictions in conjunction with the assessment processes that the Centers undertake with jurisdictions, before a work plan is developed.
In partnership with the cross-center team, the Center for Courts will include the Assessment of Foundational Capacity items to Court Improvement Programs (CIPs) as part of its annual self-assessment process. In that assessment process, a single reporter completes the self-assessment on behalf of the CIP, and then submits it to the Center annually in December.
While similar constructs will be measured across Centers, the content and language of the assessment items below will be tailored to some extent to align with the approaches used by the three Centers in their assessment work with States, Tribes and CIPs. The items shown here are organized by the foundational capacity they are intended to measure.
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PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT OF 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13) STATEMENT OF PUBLIC BURDEN: Through this information collection, ACF is gathering information to identify the factors associated with the effectiveness of capacity building services provided by the Child Welfare Capacity Building Collaborative. Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 6 minutes per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and reviewing the collection of information. This is a voluntary collection of information. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information subject to the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. If you have any comments on this collection of information please contact James DeSantis, Project Director, by email at DeSantis@jbassoc.com.
Dear Court Improvement Program Staff,
Your feedback is needed for a study being conducted by the Cross-Center Evaluation team (an independent evaluator funded by the Children’s Bureau). As a recipient of Capacity Building Services through the Center for Courts, we would like your perspective of the current functioning of the dependency courts in your state/territory on several key indicators, including organizational resources, infrastructure, knowledge and skills, culture and climate, and engagement and partnerships. The responses from this survey will provide contextual information to help interpret the impact of the services provided by the Center for Courts.
The survey will take approximately 6 minutes to fill out. Your participation in this survey is voluntary – your views are very important, but you are not required to take the survey. Survey data will be safeguarded by the Center for Courts Evaluators and the Cross-Center Evaluation Team. Data will be kept private. Your individual responses will not be shared with others in your agency, Center Liaisons and consultants, or the Children’s Bureau.
The Cross-Center Evaluation will use survey results to help interpret effectiveness of Center services. Evaluation findings will be reported to the Children’s Bureau and other audiences, but individual respondents will not be identified. The Children’s Bureau also intends to share evaluation findings based on this survey and other data sources with the public in future evaluation reports. If you have any questions about the survey, please contact Dr. James DeSantis at James Bell Associates via email at desantis@jbassoc.com or toll-free at 1-800-546-3230.
Using a scale of 1 to 5, please tell us the extent to which you agree with the following statements about the majority of your state’s dependency courts capacities:
In my opinion, in the majority of dependency courts across my state, there is/are:
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Organizational Resources
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Organizational Infrastructure Competency
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Administration
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Knowledge and Skills Workforce
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Analytic/evaluative
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Organizational Culture & Climate
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Organizational Engagement & Partnership
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