Can my application/proposed plan include a local outcome evaluation component?
Applicants are advised to think carefully before deciding to include plans for a local outcome evaluation. All applicants will be required to participate in the national evaluation of the initiative, regardless of whether or not they are conducting a local evaluation. Further, sites will not be permitted to engage in any local evaluation activities that impede or disrupt the national evaluation. For example, if a local site planned to conduct interviews with families served and the national evaluation also calls for interviews of families during the same time period, the site would only be permitted to conduct their interviews after the national evaluator was finished.
