Logic Models & Theories of Change
Family
Interventions
School
Interventions
Community
Interventions
Supercharging and Tailoring Interventions
100

Resources that a program uses to achieve program goals (e.g., staff, funding, equipment, space)

What are inputs? 

100

Program that uses medical professionals to visit families starting prenatally

What is Nurse Family Partnership? 

100

Foundations of Social Emotional Learning

What are relationships? 

100

An intervention designed with youth to create safer social media

What is #chatsafe?

100

Psychology and Economics

What are the two fields that make up Behavioral  Economics? 

200

Two "planned activities" in a logic model.

What are Inputs and Program Activities?

200

Setting where a lot of families can receive interventions in infancy and toddlerhood.

What is pediatric care? 
200

A program that teaches kids understanding of emotions using pictures of faces and the "turtle" technique.

What is PATHS? 

200

Intensive family- and community-based program that focuses on addressing the multiple ecological systems  simultaneously.

What is Multi-Systemic Therapy? 

200

Age group for whom our interventions are less effective

What are adolescents? 

300

Two "effects of planned activities" in a logic model.

What are Outputs and Outcomes? 

300

A primary theory underlying the ABC intervention

What is attachment theory?

300

A program  for K-8 schools responsive to children’s needs that incorporates ten teaching practices and practical strategies

What is Responsive Classroom?

300

Risks in communities

What are crime, unemployment, poverty, isolation...?

300

What is missing from interventions targeting adolescents that make them sometimes fail?

What is Status and Respect?

400

Products of a program’s activities (e.g., number of families visited by nurse; number of materials distributed)

What are Outputs? 

400

Three barriers to scale for family interventions

What are Enrollment/engagement, Cost, and Heterogeneity of risk?
400

Activities and routines to support social and emotional learning.

What are "kernels"?

400

Two types of community-level interventions.

What are those that target community-level processes and those that target individual-level processes but are situated in communities?

400

Reminders, automatic enrollment, personalized messages, small rewards, implementation intentions.

What are "decision levers"?

500

Components of Logic Model that are NOT in a Theory of Change

What are Inputs and Outputs?

500

Key Targets of Smart Beginnings

What is Relationship Quality (eg positive parenting) and Psychosocial Vulnerabilities (eg depression)?

500

Four dimensions of Social-Emotional Learning.

What are: Focus Thinking, Understand and Deal with Feelings, Manage Behavior, and Build Positive Relationships?

500

Protective factors in communities

What are collective efficacy, civic engagement, social networks, quality services?

500

Designed to address low uptake of services

What are behavioral nudges?