Aligning Research and Funding

Megan Alderden, Ph.D., Research DirectorRonnie Reichgelt, Victim Services Program Administrator

Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority

Research - Funding Partnership Model

Identify Knowledge or Programming Gap

•Literature reviews•Analyze existing data

•Tapping into local experts & academics

•Strategic planning

Fund Demonstration Program/ Innovation to Address Gap

•Identify key program components, expected outcomes

•Develop performance measures

Conduct Process and Outcome Evaluations

•Document barriers and lessons learned

•Detail promising practices

•Identify impact and policy implications

Expand Funding to other Jurisdictions

•Use evaluation findings to inform expansion

Practitioners and Community Stakeholders

Need for Strategic Planning forProgram Evaluation

Selection of program evaluations

Findings are program specific

Less relevance

Limited policy/program impact

Grant Funding that Lacks a Strategic

Basis

Weakness: No strategic focus and limited utility of findings

When they are in sync . . .

Selection of program evaluations

Findings are program specific

Policy and practice relevance

Increased system impact and knowledge

Strength: Strategic focus and findings inform future policy and practice

Grant Funding Informed by

Strategic Planning

Research - Funding Partnership Model

Identify Knowledge or Programming Gap

•Literature reviews•Analyze existing data•Tapping into local experts & academics•Strategic planning

Fund Demonstration Program/ Innovation to Address Gap

• Identify key program components, expected outcomes

• Develop performance measures

Conduct Process and Outcome Evaluations

• Document barriers and lessons learned

• Detail promising practices

• Identify impact and policy implications

Practitioners and Community Stakeholders