San Francisco Community Hubs Initiative Mid-Year Synthesis

Social Policy Research Associates (SPR) was engaged by DCYF to conduct a developmental evaluation of the Community Hub Initiative (CHI), documenting the evolution of the initiative and providing evaluation data to inform program improvement. This Mid-Year Evaluation Report documents the story of the CHI’s development, emerging outcomes, and lessons learned through the end of 2020.It is informed by observations of CHI program planning meetings, interviews with staff from DCYF and CHI city partners, a survey of anchor agency staff completed about one month after opening their Hub, a parent survey that was administered in December 2020, and attendance data from San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD). Read the report here.