Areas of Work

The CAPD staff brings extensive experience to current social challenges. Our recent work has addressed separately or within the same effort:

• Improving Outcomes For Young Children
• Improving Outcomes For Adolescents
• Improving Outcomes For Families
• Leadership
• Reforming Systems
• Reducing Racism
• Enhancing Civic Engagement

Issue Briefs

Issue Briefs are short documents summarizing ideas, experiences, information and analyses from CAPD staff. In some cases, they may be based on longer-term projects or excerpted from published reports referenced elsewhere on our site, or they may reflect thoughts and work that are not included there.

Issue Briefs are free-standing pieces that are intended to provide readers with timely information, a different perspective, or thought-provoking ideas in the various areas of CAPD's work.

We welcome comments and responses!

Issue Briefs available for download:

Applying CAPD's School Readiness Approach in Work with Communities in Connecticut.
S. A. Stephens. December 1999.

Some Emerging Lessons on Child Assessment in Early Education.
S. A. Stephens. November 30, 1999.

Some Issues to Consider in Results-Based Contracting with Service Providers.
S. A. Stephens. September 1999.

Measuring and Tracking School Readiness Indicators (With an Example: Investigation and Recommendations for Initial Indicators in Philadelphia.
S. A. Stephens. January 1996.

CAPD's Approach to Defining and Measuring School Readiness.
S. A. Stephens. Fall 1995.

Given the Nature of Family Centers, How Can We Craft a Meaningful Evaluation?
S. A. Stephens. February 2000.