Appendix C_SIRF Phone Meeting Topics for Program Staff

OMB # 0970-0356

Expiration Date: 6/30/2021

Appendix C: SIRF Phone Meeting Topics for Program Staff

Strengthening the Implementation of Responsible Fatherhood Programs (SIRF)

Meeting Topics

Thank you for taking time to meet with the SIRF study team. As a reminder, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families has contracted with MDRC and its partners, MEF Associates and Insight Policy Research, to conduct SIRF. The SIRF project will utilize rapid learning methods, or iterative cycles of learning, to identify implementation roadblocks, design and test solutions, interpret findings, and make adaptations to practice and measurement.

This document outlines the information the SIRF team is interested in learning about your fatherhood program. The information will help us learn about the implementation of fatherhood services and will inform the SIRF study design. We envision these topics to serve as a guide for our conversation, though we do not need to cover all topics if they are not relevant to your program. You do not need to prepare anything prior to our meeting. Thank you in advance for your time!

1. Current Affiliation and Role

2. Structure of Program

3. Use of Data and Experience with Evaluation

4. Referral Sources and Service Partners

5. Program Implementation Challenges

6. Successful and Unsuccessful Approaches to Address Implementation Challenges

7. Site Visit Preparation [if applicable]

NOTE: The Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: The associated collection of information is voluntary and will be used to gather preliminary information about the fatherhood field and explore with fatherhood programs the research questions that are of interest and the design options that are feasible. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden to Katie Pahigiannis; Katie.Pahigiannis@acf.hhs.gov, and Kriti Jain; Kriti.Jain@acf.hhs.gov; Attn: OMB-PRA (0970-0356).