Since its founding, WRMA has provided research and evaluation expertise to federal, tribal, state, and local governments; foundations; and nonprofit agencies with the objective of improving the knowledge base from which to design, fund, implement, and improve services. Our research focuses on the needs of vulnerable children and their families, whether they participate in the child welfare, mental health, early education systems, or other human services programs. Our evaluations have been multi-site and multi-year, commonly collecting a wide range of data including client data, services data, cost data, and outcomes data. We are leaders in reducing data collection and reporting burdens on programs and individuals by maximizing the utilization of administrative data sets.
Examples of WRMA's Research and Evaluation Projects include:
- The National Evaluation of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program (CMHI)
- First 5 Sacramento Services Evaluation
- Supporting Partnership to Assure Ready Kids (SPARK) and Ready Kids Follow-Up
- Los Angeles County Division Demographics Estimates and Projections
- Quality Improvement Center on Differential Response in Child Protective Services (QIC-DR)
- Multiple Homeless Studies - Department of Housing and Urban Development
- California Family Preservation Evaluation
- Families for Kids Initiative, Policy Analysis and Cluster Evaluation
- Center for Telemedicine and eHealth Evaluation
- Cross-Site Evaluation of the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative
