International Research on Community Centres for Children and Families: the Importance of Sensitive Outcomes in Evaluation

International Research on Community Centres for Children and Families: the Importance of Sensitive Outcomes in Evaluation

By: M. Berry, ed.

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ABSTRACT: This paper introduces a special collection of this edition of the International Journal based on a series of international pilot studies designed to explore the messages and methodological challenged derived from attempts to understand proximal or sensitive outcomes as steps on the way to more distal or long term outcomes in community and family based centres. This paper gives background and summarizes a collection which has a theoretical introduction followed by seven case studies compiled by scholars from seven different countries representing the International Association for Outcomes Based Evaluation and Research in Child and Family Services.