***II. Purpose of this Report

The increased interest in programs that promote responsible fatherhood and the limited information currently available on the services provided and effectiveness of these programs has generated interest in the systematic evaluation of responsible fatherhood programs. For this reason, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Ford Foundation funded The Lewin Group and Johns Hopkins University to conduct an evaluability assessment of responsible fatherhood programs.

Fatherhood programs and emphasis on male parenting are relatively recent phenomena in the social service sector. Many of the programs currently in place are either very new or, if established, have been experimenting with new interventions or changing the program focus over time to meet the interests and objectives of funders. It is generally the case that fatherhood programs have not adequately documented their performance. This may be because of limited resources, a lack of experience with methods of measuring performance, or simply because the focus of program staff has been on serving fathers rather than proving that methods are effective. While program staff may believe that their activities are helping fathers and resulting in positive impacts on society, others, particularly funders, may be skeptical of evidence of program effectiveness that is limited to anecdotes.

Evaluations of responsible fatherhood programs can serve two important functions:

• provide information to outside agencies and organizations regarding the objectives and the effectiveness of their interventions, which may be used to attract and justify fundingfrom these outside sources; and• provide information to program staff that may be used to modify program design to more efficiently and effectively serve the fathers who use their services.

{{Interesting how “ATTRACT AND JUSTIFY FUNDING” COMES FIRST… AND IT DOESN’T EVEN SAY, HELP THE PROGRAMS REACH THEIR STATED SERVCE, BUT “PROVIDE INFORMATION TO PROGRAM STAFF.”}}

Systematic evaluation of fatherhood program outcomes is crucial to both program design and funding. Conducting rigorous evaluations using standard scientific methods . . .[[will provide continued income for the Lewin Group, the Fatherhood practitioners and organizations, and many other people, not including the children that these program are supposed to help by encouraging and enabling their Daddies to “man up” and support their offspring]]

 the Lewin Group at a 2007 AFCC conference:42. Healthy Marriage Projects: The Influence of Marriage on Child Support Enforcement

The Administration for Children and Families’ top goal in the last few years has been to encourage marriage for unwed low income families through marriage education, community outreach and demonstrations. This panel will discuss the status of Community Healthy Marriage Projects being financed by the Office of Child Support Enforcement, “Building Strong Families” marriage demonstrations being financed by the Administration of Children and Families and the importance of former marriage status or unmarried status on subsequent child support enforcement out- comes.

• Barbara Devaney, Ph.D., Mathematica, Washington, D.C.
• Michael Fishman, Ph.D., Lewin Group, Falls Church, VA
• Hillard Pouncy, Ph.D., Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
• Moderator: David Arnaudo, Office of Child Support Enforcement, Washington, D.C.  (a.k.a. HHS/OCSE)

(this presentation for sale — only $15.00)

One reason they may be interested to conference at AFCC — AFCC has judges.  Some Family Law judges get to mandate parenting education, etc.  Dr. Fishman is now with MEF, and his bio shows a close connection to welfare matters, and HHS.  I’m sure the personal connections didn’t hurt either.  He has a masters in “organizational psychology”  which is probably the way to go if you want a government career these days, and an MPA from USC..  Hardly suprising, the new company is also into (among other things) and is in Alexandria, VA.

Marriage and relationship education

State Policies to Promote Marriage
This report inventories state policies directly focused on promoting or supporting marriage. Using secondary data sources, the authors compiled information across states documenting the presence of marriage-related activities in a variety of areas such as campaigns and commissions; divorce laws and procedures; marriage and relationship preparation and education; tax and transfer policies; marriage support and promotion programs.

• State Policies to Promote Marriage, Karen N. Gardiner, Michael E. Fishman, Plamen Nikolov, Asaph Glosser, and Stephanie Laud. With the assistance of Theodora Ooms, September, 2002

I googled “The Lewin Group, AFCC, Fatherhood” but apparently I’m one of the few people catching on to it, per Google anyhow.  One association with the Abstinence Group, “WAIT” (Joneen Krauth — plenty on that on this blog too, I actually looked up their corporate records history in Colorado.  What a group — associated with NARME, etc.  What a racket, too!):  This showed up under “pipl.”  The site AAHMI is African American Healthy Marriage Initiative which is, by any other name, HHS…  Basically…  DNR if this was at Hampton Univ. or where.

The Lewin Group is pleased to share these materials developed for the …Joneen Krauth RN, BSN — NEW. Executive Director of The Abstinence and …[ Speakers List – www.aahmi.net ]

“Reference in this web site to any specific commercial product, process, service, manufacturer, organization, or company does not constitute its endorsement or recommendation by the U.S. Government, the Department of Health and Human Services, or the Administration for Children and Families (ACF). ACF is not responsible for the contents of any “off-site” web page referenced from this server or from private, third-party, pop-up, or browser-integrated software or applications.”

NOTE:  A long while ago, I remember this particular AAHMI and some closely associated nonprofits I was looking up, was one key to understanding just how much the HHS is reaching out with money to set up “mouthpiece” nonprofits or groups (including with key speakers) around the country.  I figure HHS at this point is about as criminally-run a US Dept. as HUD is alleged to be, by someone who knows well enough as she used to be near its top.(C.A. Fitts, late 1980/1990s).

[[2016 updated material from LewinGroup.com]]

Viewed at “lewin.com” 4/11/2016 during blog update

(Their “About Us” page, main content):

The Lewin Group is a premier national health care and human services consulting firm. We understand the industry and provide our clients with high-quality products and insightful support.

Why Choose The Lewin Group?

Proven History

We have nearly 50 years’ experience finding answers and solving problems for leading organizations in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors.

Objective Viewpoint

The Lewin Group is committed to independence and integrity in our work. We combine professional expertise with extensive knowledge and a rigorous approach to analyzing and solving problems to deliver value to each of our clients and to the larger community as well.

Real-World Experience

Our strategic and analytical services help clients:

• Improve policy and expand knowledge of health care and human services systems
• Enact, run, and evaluate programs to enhance delivery and financing of health care and human services
• Deal with shifts in health care practice, technology, and regulation
• Optimize performance, quality, coverage, and health outcomes
• Create strategies for institutions, communities, governments, and people to make health care and human services systems more effective

Who We Are

The Lewin Group employs more than 140 consultants drawn from industry, government, academia, and the health professions. Many are national authorities whose strategies for health and human services system improvements come from their personal experience with imperatives for change. The Lewin Group is an Optum company, a wholly owned subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group. We’re editorially independent, but through partnerships with Optum, we can tap into a vast body of data and resources. Optum is an analytics, technology, and consulting services firm that enables better decisions throughout the health system.

The Lewin Group provides its clients with the very best expert and impartial health care and human services policy research and consulting services.

 Learn about our independence
 Meet the leadership team

OTHER 2016 observations on The Lewin Group: Street address:  3130 Fairview Park Drive #500, Falls Church, VA — is right near “Acentia, a Maximus Company” which is same street address #800.  Maximus, we may remember, contractor to manage child support, Medicaid, other health-care related record-keeping, collections & distributions in a number of states (and at least one other country).

(3130 Fairview Dr #800, Falls Church, VA. Viewed 4/11/2016 during blog update)

Acentia, a MAXIMUS Company, is a premier employer who provides software, information technology, and management solutions that produce successful programs of national significance, while consistently demonstrating a partnership of trust and value to our federal customers and the American taxpayer.

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[Holistic Data Analytics….]

“Centers of Excellence” (options:  Analytics / Cloud / Mobility)

“Acentia offers a holistic approach to Big Data and Analytics. Traditional analytics can tell you what happened and why, but leading organizations are using predictive analytics to understand what could happen and prescriptive analytics to choose the next best action.”

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Deloitte Consulting LLP is directly connected with Wade Horn, who went right from significant position at HHS to the National Fatherhood Initiative which is a corrupt nonprofit which has probably done as much as any  nonprofit taking federal money from (welfare, among other places) to make sure there is NO safe place anymore for abused mothers with small children to ever get free from abuse (either directly in the household, or indirectly through economic deprivation of child support — or through custody wars).

Deloitte Consulting LLP

Wade previously served as the commissioner for Children, Youth and Families and as chief of the Children’s Bureau within DHHS. He transitioned from that role to serve as president of the National Fatherhood Initiative – an organization dedicated to improving the well-being of children by increasing the number of children growing up with involved, committed and responsible fathers.

Wade has a doctorate in clinical psychology from Southern Illinois University and has served as associate director of Michigan State University’s Psychological Clinic. He also has held the position of director of outpatient psychological services at Children’s Hospital National Medical Center and associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at George Washington University.

This man has background in the world’s easiest major, which many still challenge as even being a legitimate science, and rightly so.  It is a field with an unusually high # of criminals attracted to it, who if they are prosecuted, then skip to other states and set up shop again.   I have blogged him before; he is no friend to women with children (Where is Mrs. Horn? One never hears about her).

This next Deloitte Consulting LLP article shows that as poverty and the need for aid increase (not in small part because groups like — or trained by — National Fatherhood Initiative, with its very religious thesis about what causes poverty, crime, abuse, even sexual abuse, promiscuity etc (and it’s of course fatherlessness) – profits to Deloitte, in particular increase, through technology, which (along with psychology) is their field:

>Deloitte’s HHS leaders discuss how several states are implementing self-service systems to reach more citizens in need and handle larger caseloads without the need for a larger workforce.

The recession means many states are seeing dramatic increases in the number of citizens applying for aid. States that have implemented self-service systems within the last several years are finding they are not only able to better handle rapidly increasing caseloads, but they are also better positioned to meet looming advanced benefit delivery needs.

Sundhar Sekhar, principal and HHS practice leader with Deloitte Consulting LLP, and Dr. Wade Horn, HHS director, Deloitte Consulting LLP, recently wrote an article for the American Public Human Services Association’s (APHSA) Policy & Practice magazine. The article discusses how states like Wisconsin, New York, Georgia, Massachusetts and New Mexico have used self-service portals to improve both how they do business and how they serve citizens

DELOITTE CONSULTING LLP (ALONE; IT’S HARDLY THE ONLY DELOITTE AROUND)) IS IN MANY DIFFERENt FIELDS (YOU CAN LOOK IT UP) INCLUDING AEROSPACE & DEFENSE:

http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_US/us/Industries/index.htm  AND BANKING & SECURITIES:

The Deloitte shadow banking index: Shedding light on banking’s shadows

Shadow banking may help drive the day-to-day financial system, but it is a concept looking for a hard-and-fast definition.

It is generally agreed that the shadow banking sector has grown to an imposing size over the last few years. Despite coming under intense scrutiny following the financial crisis, there have been disparate characterizations of what the shadow banking sector truly entails — with size estimates ranging from $10 to $60 trillion. 

this same firm was also a vendor for the highly political (and scandalized) CALIFORNIA COURT CASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (CCMS) WHICH THE JUDICIAL COUNCIL AND TRIAL COURTS HAVE BEEN FIGHTING ABOUT.  I see from a March 2012 meeting that delays caused by Deloitte cost Californians, and it elected to pay us back $16 million.  Apparently profits are good as it’s able to do this.  There was a whistleblower involved (re: overbilling) on this, who was then fired, who quit, heads are rolling, and in short — it’s a major scandal.  In addition to this I personally have issues with a company who’s got a man on it (Wade Horn) responsible in part for seeking to restructure the statewide (throughout the country) family court system to become an out-based (increased noncustodial parenting, a.k.a. abusive fathers) process and incentivize judges to do this.  for one, it is getting families killed, and is unfair to the custodial parents in that they are often not even told about the grants system.  For another, besides it’s simply unethical — it is utilizing federal money designed to alleviate poverty — not to speculate on marriage theory and test that theory nationwide on kids and their parents.  This is the legacy in part of welfare reform, which legacy needs to be changed anyhow.

http://www.10news.com/download/2012/0202/30354733.pdf

Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher AB 1208 (Calderon) – Administrative Office of the Courts Thursday, February 1, 2012

Assemblyman Fletcher: “I rise in support of reforming the Administrative Office of the Courts. It is a failed institution that is failing the trial courts that it’s entrusted to protect. For years now we have seen the mismanagement, we’ve seen disregard for taxpayer funds, we’ve seen an unwillingness to change and reform, a bloated staff, a disastrous computer system, unrealistic construction and maintenance costs; all too often that’s just another day at the office for the Administrative Office of the Courts.”

“And at a time when local governments are struggling, when local courts are struggling to keep their courts open, the AOC has shifted billions of dollars away from ensuring justice, with programs riddled with delays, ballooning price tags and management failures.I want to highlight just quickly, and I know the debate has been long, but a couple specifics of what we’re talking about.”

• Initial estimates had put the cost of CCMS at $206 million, but as of June 2010, the program has already spent $407 million and is projected to cost $2.5 billion to finish developing and training courtemployees and justice partners how to use the system,” said Alejo in criticizing the Administrative Officeof the Courts, generally referred to by its acronym AOC. “Moreover, because of failures by the AOC toproperly structure its contract with the vendor, the contract now costs $310 million, nearly 10 times theinitial estimate.
• “Additionally, the AOC did not structure its contract with Deloitte Consulting LLP (development vendor), the firm that has assisted in developing CCMS, to ensure that the AOC could adequately control the total cost and size of the contract. Over the course of seven years, the AOC entered into 102 amendments to develop, deploy, and support the civil system; to deploy and support the criminal system; and to develop CCMS. As a result, the cost of the contract has increased significantly—growing from $33 million to $310 million—and the AOC has become increasingly dependent on the development vendor’s knowledge and expertise.”Howle, Elaine. “Administrative Office of the Courts: The Statewide Case Management Project Faces Significant Challenges Due to Poor Project Management”

But here’s more info on this very live, 2012, issue. California eventually (in part because the courts budget was slashed) to scrap or otherwise reutilize this $333 million project, etc.

March 27, 2012

Judicial Council Votes to Stop Deployment of Statewide Case Management System

Cites fiscal crisis, high cost of CCMS V4
We have to develop a new vision for our branch technology infrastructure given our fiscal climate,” said Judge James E. Herman, chair of the committee. “We are committed to implementing a cost-effective, efficient technology that serves the public, litigants, attorneys, and trial courts.”

According to a report by the independent auditing firm of Grant Thornton, LLP, estimates for deployment of CCMS V4 to 11 courts would be $343 million for one-time and supporting costs through fiscal year 2020-2021. To date, $333.3 million has been spent on the V3 and V4 software product the Judicial Council now owns.

In the current fiscal year, state funding of the trial courts was slashed by $350 million and another $310 million was swept from the courthouse construction fund to help balance the state’s General Fund.  Since 2008-2009, state funding of the judicial branch has been cut by $653 million, leading to closures of courtrooms, reduced hours, and employee layoffs.

Originally conceived in 2001, CCMS was designed to provide the trial courts with a single, statewide case management system to replace 70 individual case systems in use among the California courts. The concept was to improve public safety and business efficiencies by enabling trial courts to exchange information with each other as well as other justice system partners, such as law enforcement and to improve service to attorneys and the public.

Interim systems provided case management for criminal and traffic cases (V2) followed by civil, small claims, probate and mental health cases (V3).  V4 could handle all case types, provide for data exchange, and provide public access to cases across the state

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McKinsey & Company The washington, D.C. McKinsey & Company (never heard of ’em) is a NY consulting firm founded in 1926:

McKinsey & Company is one of the world’s top management consulting firms. With roughly 90 offices in more than 50 countries around the globe, it serves three of the world’s five largest companies and about two-thirds of the FORTUNE 1000. The company advises corporate enterprises, as well as government agencies, institutions, and foundations on a number of business practices. They include business technology, corporate finance, marketing and sales, operations, organization, risk, and strategy. McKinsey’s consulting services focus on more than a dozen different industries, from automotive and banking to pharmaceuticals and telecommunications. Founded by James McKinsey in 1926, the firm is owned by its partners. 

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CHILD TRENDS, INC.

Taggs (This = outright HHS grants, not contracts for services or products delivered)

Recipient Name	City	State	ZIP Code	County	DUNS Number	Sum of Awards
CHILD TRENDS, INC	WASHINGTON	DC	20008-2304	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	127687093	$ 19,907,379

These have to be seen to be believed….

Child Trends, Inc. is a DC-based think tank and a nonprofit.  Formed in 1979.

In 2006 it named a lecture series in honor of its 1992-2006 leader, Kristin Anderson Moore.  the first lecture of the series was delivered by Isabel Sawhill, of Brookings.  that she’s probably also on the Board of Mathematica (above, got a nice hefty contract 8/30 as well) or at least on several projects they are studying, is hardly suprising.

That particular set of years is meaningful to me, personally.  In 1992 I was between children, pregnant with #2, and my husband began assaulting (battering, severely) me in the home, often for no reason at all, and as I was without means to leave or support myself at this time, I didn’t.  So my second child got her first breath having heard domestic violence occurring right around her — before birth.  She was, however born very healthy and full term. . . . In 1994 the VAWA act was passed (andhad no meaning for me as the assaults continued).   In 1996 welfare reform passed, helping groups like this, but not women and children leaving abuse. Other years passed, including a man in California (Richard Fine) discovering that Los Angeles DA had been sitting on over $14 million of undistributed child support; Fine helped sue on behalf of a paying father and forced them to distribute.  He also discovered a series of county bribes to the judges (which were unconstitutional) and confronted them, eventually (for his efforts) getting disbarred and put in jail (solitary confinement) for 18 months. . . . .  Nice country we live in.    . . .. 2006 was meaningful to me also, as this was when my children were stolen overnight (which is a felony — but anything in family law system is not actually considered a felony — it’s a “family dispute” needing more services ordered.  So this 1992-2006 span of wonderful studies on Children, didn’t help mine . . . . . At all.

“Our work is supported by foundations; local, state, and federal governments; and private sector funders.”

I WANT YOU TO SEE THESE.  I REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME I SAW THIS LIST, A FEW YEARS AGO:

Fatherhood & Parenting
Mindy E. Scott, Senior Research Scientist

Foundations

• Anonymous
• The Atlantic Philanthropies
• The Annie E. Casey Foundation
• Casey Family Programs
• The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
• Commonwealth Foundation
• The Duke Endowment
• Eckerd Family Foundation
• Freddie Mac Foundation
• The Irving B. Harris Foundation
• The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation  [[Not sure, but I think supports AFCC at times]]
• Institute of Marriage and Family, Canada
• Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative
• The Walter S. Johnson Foundation
• W.K. Kellogg Foundation
• Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation
• Minnesota Early Learning Foundation
• The Pew Charitable Trusts
• Sierra Health Foundation
• The Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust
• Stuart Foundation
• The Summit Fund of Washington
• John Templeton Foundation
• Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption
• The Wallace Foundation
• Government:
• Centers for Disease Control
• Detroit Workforce Development Department
• District of Columbia Department of Human Services
• Early Care and Education Administration
• Minnesota Department of Human Services
• Nation Institute of Justice
• National Institutes of Health
• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
• Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services (many fatherhood programs run through here)
• Texas Department of Family and Protective Services
• U. S. Census Bureau
• U. S. Department of Education
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Policy and Program Study Services
• U. S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Administration for Children and Families
  • Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
  • Child Care Bureau
  • Health Resources and Services
  • Administration
  • Maternal and Child Health Bureau
  • Substance Abuse and Mental Health
  • Services Administration
• Partner Organizations:
• American Institute of Research’s FederalStatistics Program
• American Psychological Association
• Birth to Five Policy Alliance
• Brigham Young University
• Bright Beginnings
• Children’s Services Council of Palm Beach County
• Children’s Service Society of Wisconsin
• CNA Corporation
• Communities in Schools
  Cornell University
  Council of Chief State School Officers
  Forum for Youth Investment
  Georgetown University
  Harlem Children’s Zone
  Healthy Families Thriving Communities
  Collaborative Council, Washington, DC
  Healthy Teen Network
  The Heritage Foundation
  ICF International
  Illinois Action for Children
  J. K. Elder & Associates
  Learning for Well-being Consortium of Foundations
  MDRC  [[A HUGE ONE…]]
  Mathematica Policy Research
  National Black Child Development Institute
  National Campaign to Prevent Teen and
  Unplanned Pregnancy
  National Fatherhood Initiative
  Oregon Health and Science University
  Pal-Tech, Inc.
  Population Reference Bureau
  Public Children Services Association of Ohio
  State of Maryland Department of Education
  Teaching Strategies
  Twin Cities United Way
  University of California, San Francisco
  University of Chicago Chapin Hall
  National Opinion Research Center
  University of Cincinnati
  University of Maryland School of Social Work
  University of Minnesota, Center for Early
  Education and Development
  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
  FPG Child Development Institute  (who?)
  National Implementation Research
  Network
  UNICEF
  Westat
  WestEd
  Youthline America

…Here’s an example of just ONE (2010) award, for only $79,400 — to this entity:

She publishes at the Urban Institute, including studies on the effect of welfare reform.

Kristin Anderson Moore is a social psychologist.  From LDSChurchnews.com, Here she is speaking in 2007 at BYU (Brigham Young University, right?) at a lecture in a certain series set up by the President (Gordon B Hinckley’s) late wife, i.e., Sister Hinckley.  So, is she also Mormon, here?

Dr. Kristin Anderson Moore delivers a lecture titled “Child and Family Well Being: A New Look” at the third annual lecture for the Marjorie Pay Hinckley Endowed Chair in Social Work and the Social Sciences at BYU on Feb. 8. 

Speaking at the third annual Marjorie Pay Hinckley Endowed Chair Lecture at BYU, Dr. Moore addressed the topic “Child and Family Well-Being: A New Look.”

Named for President Gordon B. Hinckley’s late wife, the Marjorie Pay Hinckley Endowed Chair in Social Work and the Social Sciences was established in 2004 to honor Sister Hinckley’s service and contributions to the field. The chair seeks to focus on the family through research and education, expand learning through lecture and mentored learning, increase community involvement and provide service to the university.

‘A New Look’ at research on the family

Visiting scholar calls for more optimistic approach

By Sarah Jane Weaver
Church News staff writer

Published: Saturday, Feb. 17, 2007

KEVRIC, an IMC company (KEVRIC), founded in 1981, provides management, technical, and scientific support services to private and public sector clients. KEVRIC is headquartered in Maryland. KEVRIC is dedicated to quality project management and timely product delivery.

Our core capabilities are in the following areas:

• Information Technology
• Biomedical Informatics, Health and Life Sciences
• Communications and Management Consulting

KEVRIC was acquired in January of 2003 by Information Management Consultants Inc., (IMC), a privately held company that builds innovative IT custom and packaged solutions for government, business, higher education and scientific organizations. Founded in 1981, IMC is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with satellite offices in Florida and Illinois.

I guess the safest place to work is helping government be goverment, and probably around the Medicare, Medicaid industry. At this rate, the population will continue being SEVERELY stressed and probably become clients.