The Arizona Kith and Kin Project: Fidelity Study Report

In 2015, the Association for Supportive Child Care worked with Indigo Cultural Center to conduct a fidelity study on the Arizona Kith and Kin Project. Our objectives for completing a fidelity study were to: 1) validate the effectiveness of the program design; 2) assist in maintaining continuous quality improvement; 3) to place ASCC in a position to offer the replication of the program model / consulting/mentoring services; and 4) to demonstrate to funders, policy makers, and researchers not only that the program model is effective, but to also help explain the components that help make it effective.

The findings indicated that, overall, The Arizona Kith and Kin Project is being implemented with faithfulness to its model. This finding has important implications for the expansion scalability of the program. Moreover, the high fidelity combined with the established process for ongoing fidelity monitoring, and very promising outcome evaluation data suggests that the program may be successfully scaled and replicated.

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