Confidentiality statement

ATTACHMENT C

CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT

Purpose of the Interviews

• To ensure that we have a complete and up-to-date understanding of the roles and responsibilities of the grantee and partners and their staff:

• To expand our understanding of aspects of readiness and preparation that would support other communities in bringing evidence-based programs to scale;

• To understand the plan for implementation of the project, including evidence-based Programs (EBPs), community mobilization, and linkages to youth-friendly healthcare services, and the extent to which the project is being executed as designed (or how the plans evolved during the pilot year);

• To understand the local context in which the project is being implemented and the role of community agencies, community members, and local systems in implementing the project; and

• To understand the early challenges encountered implementing the project, the extent to which agencies and staff are able to address those challenges and the strategies they employ to address them.

Confidentiality Assurance

As you know, we are conducting the TPP Tier 1B Design and Implementation Study. As an important part of that effort, we are talking to grantee and partner staff and other stakeholders in an effort to understand and document the process of bringing evidence-based programs to scale, the challenges that arise, and how staff on the ground respond to those challenges. The information we gather will serve an important purpose: it will help future program operators and policymakers understand what is needed to successfully bring a program to scale to serve high-need communities and populations. It may also be used to help us understand variations in community impacts, where they occur.

You may choose not to discuss any topic or end the discussion at any time. The information we collect as well as information from program documents will be used to help us understand your project and the process of bringing the EBPs and community supports to scale. We will combine the information about your project with information about other Tier 1B projects to identify consistent themes that apply more generally across a range of grantees, communities, and target populations. Our report also will include a set of one-page profiles describing each Tier 1B grant. The profile will include basic information about your project including the names of the grantee and partner organizations. The notes we take about our discussions will not be shared with or provided to the federal government or anyone else except the members of the research team.