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America's Promise Alliance has selected Duke University's Center for Child and Family Policy to evaluate the first phase of its new five-year nationwide effort to deliver developmental resources to 15 million young people.
The first phase focuses on improving high school graduation rates through a series of school dropout summits. The Alliance has planned 50 state-level and 50 community-level summits as the catalyst for implementing national strategies to keep youth in school.
As evaluator, the center will assess the scope and potential impact of the school dropout summits. In addition, the evaluation team will work collaboratively with the Alliance to finalize and plan for implementing its National Action Strategy.
America 's Promise Alliance is the largest multi-sector collaborative dedicated to the well-being of children and youth in the United States. A basic tenet for the organization's work is that if young people are going to have a chance at academic success and social and civic competence, they need five critical developmental resources, or "promises": caring adults, safe places, a healthy start, effective education and opportunities to help others.
The Duke Evaluation Team team is led by Elizabeth Gifford a research scientist, who is principal investigator, and includes Shari Miller-Johnson, a senior research scientist, who serves as co-principal investigator; Joel Rosch, a senior research scientist, who serves as an investigator; David Rabiner, a senior research scholar with the Center, where he serves as director of Program Evaluation Services; and Jenni Owen, director of policy initiatives for the Center who will focus on the policy impact components of the evaluation. The team also includes two senior consultants: Philip Costanzo, professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke; and Rick Hoyle, research professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, also at Duke.
America 's Promise Alliance grew out of The Presidents' Summit for America 's Future. President Bill Clinton and former presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan (represented by Nancy Reagan) and George H.W. Bush held the 1997 summit to challenge the United States to make children and youth a national priority. Founded by Colin Powell that same year, the Alliance aligns more than 140 partnering organizations to deliver its “15 in 5” game plan.
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