Program evaluations demonstrate that Children's Friend is not only helping more children and families than ever, but that our programs are getting stronger and better each year. All of our programs are serving increasing numbers of people, from family support workshops to CHILDSPAN training sessions. Evaluation data shows that people are making significant progress on goals related to health care, decreasing developmental delays, increasing parenting skills, decreasing stress, improving clinical functioning, decreasing negative behaviors and situations, and increasing adoption permanency rates.