Mendocino County Family Dependency Drug Court (FDDC)

CFF conducts evaluation activities for the Mendocino County FDDC, a five year grant funded by Children’s Bureau. The process and outcome study measures the FDDC’s effectiveness in providing intensive case management, substance abuse treatment, parenting education, and reunification support with judicial oversight of specific incentive and sanctions.

Riverside Children Affected by Methamphetamine (CAM)

The Family Preservation Court (FPC) received a CAM grant to expand and enhance the current program design to include additional supportive service so children and adults affected by methamphetamine abuse. CCFF provides comprehensive process and outcome evaluation services to the Court to assure continuous quality improvement. The process evaluation examines the implementation of the program, barriers and challenges and modifications made to the program. The outcome evaluation examines the effectiveness and impact of the program on the parents and the level of family functioning. This evaluation provides opportunities for using the observations, data and information to adjust the program design to improve family outcomes.

Sacramento Children Affected by Methamphetamine (CAM)

Sacramento recieved a Children Affected by Methamphetamine grant to enhance the EIFDC and DDC programs with a new component entitled Children in Focus (CIF). CIF provide a linkage to a Birth and Beyond Resource Center and a Recovery Resource Specialist to parents and their children ages 0-17 participating in either the SAC DDC or EIFDC. CCFF works as the site evaluator for the CIF Program and provides feedback to guide implementation. The CIF evaluation uses a process and outcome research design to measure the effectiveness of the program in promoting safety, permanency and well-being of infants who are identified as prenatally exposed to methamphetamine or other substances of abuse. CCFF's evaluation assesses the impact of grant-funded services and activities on child and family well-being, tracks performance indicators across time, produces evaluation findings as part of ongoing feedback and documentation and conducts ongoing comparative analyses with data drawn from families who participated in EIFDC prior to implementation of the CIF program.

Sacramento Dependency Drug Court (DDC)

CFF is conducting an evaluation of the DDC in Sacramento County. The effectiveness and cost efficiency of the program is being compared to that of standard services through a process, impact, and cost study. Substance abuse treatment compliance, child safety and time to permanency are the major outcome measures.

Sacramento Early Intervention Family Drug Court (EIFDC)

The EIFDC evaluation includes a process and outcome research design to measure the effectiveness of the program in promoting safety, permanency and well-being of infants who are identified as prenatally exposed to methamphetamine or other substances of abuse. The program model includes family-centered treatment and supportive services with judicial oversight.