ACF’s Lauren Supplee on Boosting the Use of Social Policy Research

Описание: On the latest episode of Mathematica’s On the Evidence podcast, Lauren Supplee, the deputy assistant secretary for planning, research, and evaluation at the Administration for Children and Families, sat down for a wide-ranging conversation about the use of evidence in social policy. Supplee reflected on this year’s White House blueprint on social and behavioral science in government, which included Head Start as an example of a government program for children and families that benefited from decades of social policy research overseen by the Administration for Children and Families. On the episode, Supplee also discussed the role of research in informing improvements to Head Start over time, how the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act is changing the use of evidence in the federal government, and insights from Supplee’s blog series on boosting the use of research evidence.

Find a full transcript of the conversation here: https://www.mathematica.org/blogs/opr...

Read the White House Office of Science and Technology blog announcing its Blueprint for the Use of Social and Behavioral Science to Advance Evidence-Based Policymaking: https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-...

Read Lauren Supplee’s blog about measuring whether and how evidence is used: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/blog/202...

Read Supplee’s blog about cultivating more “knowledge brokers” in social policy research who translate complex data into action-ready insights: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/blog/202...

Read Supplee’s blog about establishing systems to support the use of evidence: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/blog/202...

Read a blog by Colleen Rathgeb, the former director of policy at the Office of Head Start and current associate deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Early Childhood Development, about research showing the need for full-day, year-round Head Start programs: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/archive/blog/...

Explore the ELOF 2 Go mobile app, the free online tool Supplee references that supports teachers who want to access and learn more about the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (ELOF): https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...

Watch the video series referenced by Supplee that shares the perspectives and experiences of those who are involved in obtaining and using data from the American Indian and Alaska Native Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/training...

0:00 Intro with J.B. Wogan and Emily Moiduddin
5:34 Lauren Supplee shares her reaction when she learned that the White House blog announcing the Blueprint for the Use of Social and Behavioral Science to Advance Evidence-Based Policymaking used Head Start, and research about Head Start, as an illustration of social and behavioral science informing federal policies to improve outcomes.
8:25 Lauren Supplee describes some of the ways that evidence has informed the creation, expansion, and evolution of Head Start over time.
17:49 Lauren Supplee discusses barriers to using social and behavioral science in federal decision-making and practices, and ways to be intentional facilitators of evidence instead of barriers.
21:47 The implications for federal agencies of the Blueprint for the Use of Social and Behavioral Science to Advance Evidence-Based Policymaking
27:21 Lauren Supplee reflects on how the role of evidence in social policy has changed over the last 30 years.
35:12 Lauren Supplee summarizes key lessons on from translational research on how to ensure evidence gets used.
43:10 Outro with host J.B. Wogan