Office of Innovation, Alignment, and Accountability (Evaluation and Research)
Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families
Washington's child welfare agency runs an internal evaluation and research office covering performance improvement, evaluation and research, and data and reporting. It is the agency door for researchers seeking a state partner, data, or an evaluation role.
- Indicative award
- Not a cash award (not a cash award)No funding is offered or described on this page. The value to a researcher is access, partnership, and the agency's evaluation infrastructure, not a cash award.
- Timing
- Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.No cycle or deadline. Contact is by email at any time; the office also oversees an Assessment Oversight Group that publishes information on ongoing assessments and new assessment tools.
- Who can apply
- Doctoral candidate, Postdoctoral, Early-career faculty, Any faculty rank, Mid-career & senior, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- No application or eligibility criteria are published. The page invites inquiries by email and offers a newsletter, and it does not state whether OIAA partners with or contracts external researchers. Treat this as a relationship and data route, not an advertised funding competition, and confirm terms directly with the office.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- continuous quality improvement · program evaluation · administrative data · agency performance · child welfare research partnership
- Apply at
- https://dcyf.wa.gov/practice/oiaa
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
Also on the Child Welfare shelf
- Research and evaluation grantsOffice of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and FamiliesAmount not published · Periodic calls
- Research Grants on Reducing Inequality and on Improving the Use of Research EvidenceWilliam T. Grant Foundation$100k–$1M · Several times a year · Jan, May, Aug
- Fund for Research and ExperimentationFahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation$5k–$20k · Annual cycle · May, Nov
- Young Scholars ProgramFoundation for Child Development$100k–$250k · Annual cycle
- Grants and research partnershipsThe Annie E. Casey FoundationAmount not published · By invitation
- Federal prize competitions and challengesU.S. federal agencies (Challenge.gov)$5k–$500k · Rolling / open