About Evidence and Evaluation Support (EES)

AIFS' EES team (formerly the Expert Panel Project) works with Families and Children (FaC) Activity service providers to help build their capacity to plan, implement and evaluate programs for families and children, and to incorporate evidence-based approaches into practice. The team offers web-based resources, training and advice, and tailored one-on-one support.

Although the team mainly works with service providers funded under the Department of Social Services’ (DSS) FaC Activity, our resources are available to everyone.

Online resources

EES resources cover a range of program planning, implementation and evaluation topics, tailored to people working across the child and family wellbeing sector. Practice resources include short topic summaries and ‘how-to’ guides. We also publish webinars that focus on discussing what works in practice.

View practice resources and webinars from Evidence and Evaluation Support.

Drop-in Q&A sessions

EES runs regular online drop-in sessions that Families and Children Activity funded services can use to ask us quick questions about collecting, using and communicating evidence. For example, questions about how to write a client survey, what tools are available to measure a particular outcome or how to analyse large amounts of qualitative data.

Learn more about the drop-in sessions.

Communities for Children Facilitating Partner (CfC FP) 50% requirement

EES provides support for CfC FPs to meet the 50% evidence-based requirement. We do this by:

• maintaining the CfC FP evidence-based program profiles
• assessing the quality of CfC FP funded programs.