Program Development & Capacity Building:
Current Projects

For the past two decades the Butler Institute has developed a strong record of collaboration with the Federal Department of Health and Human Services and various states, counties, and community entities to enhance the capacity of child and family-serving systems. Using a collaborative approach among formal agencies, the community, and consumers, the Institute advocates for evidence-based practice, sound public policies, and quality services.

Current project examples include:

• Healthy Marriage and Family Formation Training Project:

  Multi-state technical assistance in Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas in capacity building in the area of healthy marriage and family formation for child welfare professionals and clients funded through a federal HHS-ACF five-year grant. Learn more about this project.

• Western Regional Recruitment and Retention Project:

  A five-year DHHS-ACF Children's Bureau child welfare training grant. Organizational and training needs assessment for six child welfare sites in Colorado, Arizona, and Wyoming funded through a federal HHS-ACF five-year grant. Learn more about this project.

• Colorado's Child and Family Services Review (CFSR) and Program Improvement Plan (PIP):

  The Institute's staff worked with the Colorado Department of Human Services in the CFSR process and the preparation and development of the state PIP.

• Effective Child Welfare Practice with Hispanic Families:

  Project Funded through a DHHS Children’s Bureau grant to Kansas University, the Institute has a subcontract to provide technical assistance and training in two western states.

• Collaboration between TANF and Child Welfare to Improve Child Welfare Outcomes:

  The Butler Insitute is the evaluator for Jefferson County Human Services' TANF - Child Welfare Collaboration Project, funded through a grant from the federal DHHS, ACF.