Helping Strengthening Working Families Initiative (SWFI) Grantees Succeed

SWFI grantees were public-private partnerships that collaborated to address parents’ training and supportive service needs, while creating sustainable local changes that helped families navigate the workforce and childcare systems simultaneously. The Mathematica team provided ongoing technical assistance (TA) to grantees as they operated their SWFI programs.

The TA aimed to increase grantees’ capacity to assess challenges and needs, and capitalize on opportunities to align workforce and child care systems; identify creative, workable strategies for systems change and for engaging and serving families; and assist grantees to implement the strategies and monitor success. Mathematica’s LI² (Learn, Innovate, Improve) framework informed the SWFI TA team’s work. The TA team provided individualized coaching to each grantee; organized numerous convenings, webinars, office hours, and peer sharing sessions; and developed and curated dozens of written resources including tip sheets, Bright Ideas briefs, promising practices, and blog posts. Please contact info@mathematica-mpr.com for further information.