Rosalinda Cassibba

The paper is aimed to tackle the topic of evidence-based policies’ evaluation for vulnerable children and families. Specifically, the article reviews innovative programs helping children and families and analyzes distinctive features of outcome evaluation of interventions and services designed for family and age of development, highlighting opportunities and obstacles. Moreover, the authors suggest some evaluation strategies available in this area of research and propose some foundations (guiding principle) for directing planning of evaluation studies in family welfare area.