Baby face qualitative Evaluation

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Description of interview participants 
 Parent 
educators 
Supervisors 
Years in program
 
 
Range 
0.5 – 4.0 
0.25 – 4.67
Mean 3.2 
2.8 
Median 3.6 
3.7 
Mode 3.7 
3.7 
Number of active families on current caseload (at time of interview)
Range 
12 – 24
Mean 19 
Median 20 
Mode 20 
Focus groups with parents 
Wilder conducted parent focus groups with the eight sites list below (in alphabetical order). Since 
the evaluation was seeking to identify factors related to high-quality implementation, Wilder asked 

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Baby FACE 
Wilder Research, January 2015 
 
Qualitative Evaluation 
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staff and technical assistance providers at PATNC to assist in identifying eight exemplary sites, 
with additional considerations to ensure diversity of region, tribal affiliation, and size of program.
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Cherokee Central Schools, Cherokee, NC 
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Crazy Horse School, Wenblee, SD 
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Crow Creek Tribal Schools, Stephan, SD 
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Crystal Boarding School, Navajo, NM 
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Dennehotso Boarding School, Dennehotso, AZ 
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Seba Dalkai Boarding School, Winslow, AZ 
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Taos Day School, Taos, NM 
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Tuba City Boarding Schools, Tuba, AZ 
Wilder worked with staff at each of these sites to schedule and plan the focus groups. Wilder 
recommended that focus groups be conducted during regularly scheduled group meetings, to the 
extent possible, to make it as convenient as possible for participants, and attempted to schedule 
geographically close sites together to ease travel. Wilder gave parent educators the following 
guidance for whom to invite to participate:
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One adult caregiver per family that primarily participates in home visits with the child 
(grandparent, aunt/uncle, sibling). If multiple adults participate in the program, only one is 
eligible to attend. [A few exceptions to this rule were made to avoid any conflicts when two 
parents from the same family arrived at the group.]
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Current or previously participating families that have actively participated for at least 20 
visits and/or one year.
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Families that are available during the scheduled time, able to get to the scheduled focus 
group, and reliable.
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Invite a total of 12-15 families with an even number from each parent educator. (That is, if two 
parent educators were at one site, they were each asked to invite 6-7 parents.)
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Beyond these criteria, families were selected at random.
Two members of Wilder’s research team traveled to each selected site to facilitate and take notes at 
each focus group. Wilder asked each participant to sign a consent form at the start of the group and 
complete a short demographic survey at the completion of the group. Wilder also provided a $50 

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