Allison Metz - William T. Grant Foundation

Awarded Grants

Grant

Building Trusting Relationships to Support Evidence Use in Human Services

Can training and coaching contribute to the development of trusting relationships between agency leadership and staff and their community partners? And to what extent do those relationships improve the use of evidence in decision-making and implementation of evidence-informed initiatives in ...

Allison Metz

University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill

2021 – 2023
$50,000

Grant

Technical Assistance and Uses of Research Evidence in Child Welfare: What do we know and where do we need to go?

What technical assistance strategies support locally-relevant and sustained uses of research evidence among child welfare providers?

Allison Metz

University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill

2018 – 2021
$50,000

Grant

Co-creating the Conditions to Sustain the Use of Research Evidence in Public Child Welfare

What strategies help child welfare agency leaders, evidence-based program developers, and child welfare providers initiate and sustain the use of research evidence?

Allison Metz

University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill

2015 – 2017
$25,000

The William T. Grant Foundation invests in high-quality research focused on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and improving the use of research evidence in decisions that affect young people in the United States.