James Bell Associates is supporting the Office of Family Assistance (OFA) with Adaptable Evaluation Training and Technical Assistance for Healthy Marriage, Promoting Responsible Fatherhood and Tribal/TANF Child Welfare Grantees. Using our innovative three-phase approach JBA will be assisting 235 OFA research and demonstration grantees in building their evaluation capacity and helping them to enhance the rigor of their evaluation designs.

Arlington, VA, June 20, 2008 – James Bell Associates, Inc. is a leading and respected evaluation and research services firm based in the Washington D.C. area. JBA has been awarded a grant from the Kansas Health Foundation for the highly coveted Evaluation of the Immunize Kansas Kids Initiative (IKK), a three-phased project continuing through 2010. The objective of this all-important, strategic children’s health care and prevention services initiative is to protect every Kansas child from vaccine preventable diseases by achieving and sustaining a 90 percent statewide immunization rate.