Bring CSAW Into Your Work
CSAW works with schools, community organizations, public agencies, funders, and other partners to strengthen prevention, apply research, evaluate programs and initiatives, build professional capacity, and create approaches that fit their communities. Our team brings research and evaluation, professional learning, community-based prevention, and youth engagement expertise to projects ranging from focused technical assistance to longer-term partnerships.
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Research & Evaluation Partnerships
CSAW partners with schools, community organizations, public agencies, and funders to answer practical questions: Is this working? For whom? Under what conditions? And what should we do next?
As a University of Oregon research center, CSAW combines rigorous research and evaluation with community knowledge and lived experience. We design studies and evaluations around the realities of the people doing the work so findings can support learning, improvement, and decision-making.
Our team has experience in program and developmental evaluation, mixed-methods and longitudinal research, implementation research, measurement development, and qualitative inquiry. Recent projects include a developmental evaluation and outcome study design for myWorth, along with mixed-method research examining belonging, school relationships, help-seeking, and supports for youth experiencing housing insecurity.
Research & Evaluation Services
- Program and developmental evaluation
- Mixed-methods and longitudinal research
- Surveys, interviews, and focus groups
- Logic models and evaluation frameworks
- Implementation and readiness research
- Measurement and assessment development
- Rapid-cycle reporting and continuous improvement
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Have a research or evaluation project in mind?
Talk with our team about your questions, goals, timeline, and the kind of learning that would be most useful to your organization.
Parent & Community Café Partnerships
CSAW helps organizations and communities build Parent & Community Café programming that strengthens connection, peer support, and protective factors for families. CSAW has supported Parent & Community Café implementation since 2019.
Participant feedback helps shape Café content and structure over time. What parents and caregivers say is useful, what they want to explore, and how they experience the Cafés informs how the team develops and adapts the work.
What CSAW Can Provide
- Customized Café design and implementation support
- Train-the-Trainer capacity building
- Trauma-informed and resilience-oriented facilitation
- Culturally responsive and inclusive implementation
- Support grounded in the Strengthening Families Protective Factors Framework
- Evaluation and implementation guidance
- Flexible partnership models tailored to local needs
Cafés can complement existing family, school, or community programming by creating ongoing opportunities for caregivers to build relationships, reinforce learning, and develop peer support networks that continue beyond a single event or training.
CSAW can work with partners to adapt the model to their setting, build local facilitation capacity, and support implementation in ways that fit the community.
Interested in bringing Cafés to your organization or community?
Talk with our team about customized Cafés, Train-the-Trainer support, or other partnership options.
Cultivate Professional Learning
Cultivate partners with educators and education systems to strengthen relationships, professional practice, and student success through research- and evidence-informed professional learning.
Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) are available for Early Childhood Educators and K–12 Educational Assistants. These collaborative learning experiences help participants build knowledge through reflection, discussion, and practical application.
Ways to Work With Cultivate
- Hosted professional development
- Train-the-Trainer capacity-building partnerships
- Asynchronous learning pathways
Organizations can work with Cultivate to provide professional learning directly or build internal capacity to support learning over time.
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Looking for professional learning for your team?
Talk with Cultivate about hosted professional development, Train-the-Trainer partnerships, or learning options that fit your organization.
Partner With Our Youth Advisory Council
Organizations working on issues that affect young people can partner with CSAW to create meaningful opportunities for youth perspectives to inform their work. CSAW’s Youth Advisory Council brings together young people who contribute their knowledge, experiences, and priorities to prevention efforts in Lane County and beyond.
Ways to Partner With the YAC
- Youth-informed feedback on programs, resources, and initiatives
- Consultation on issues affecting young people
- Co-design of resources and prevention approaches
- Youth participation in research and evaluation
- Collaboration on community-based projects
CSAW works with prospective partners to determine whether a project is a good fit for the YAC and to structure participation in ways that respect young people’s time, contributions, and agency.
Have a project that could benefit from youth partnership?
Talk with our youth engagement team about your project, what you hope to learn, and how young people could meaningfully contribute.
