The ETO Support project for Choice Research Associates (CRA) was a continuation of prior work starting in 2013 with the Principal Investigator, Shawn Flower, and ETO Administrator Laura Gerhard in their former capacity with the Justice Research and Statistics Association (JRSA). The prior project “Building Capacity for Performance Measurement and Evaluation” (BCPME) responded to the needs of OVSJG to help grantees become better prepared to respond to the Federal, State, and local demands for data-driven decision making.

The project included working with the OVSJG funded District of Columbia Reentry Coalition (DCRC) grantees to improve the capacity of the grantees to collect high-quality performance measure data. The DCRC project ended in 2024. The other portion of the project was development and configuration of the ETO system for three end users -- DCRC grantees (2017 to 2024), the Supportive Housing/Housing First program (2021 to 2024) and the District of Columbia Show Up, Stand Out Truancy Reduction Project (2012 to 2024).  For these projects, we provided training and technical assistance for integration of data from all community-based organizations involved in the project; monitored data and oversaw creation of ad-hoc and standard reports for ongoing evaluation efforts.