Behavioral Health

BH TIG Week: Go with the Flow by Elizabeth Oyer

Hello! I am Elizabeth Oyer, President of EvalSolutions, Inc. where I provide program evaluation and business consulting services. Over the last 5 years, business intelligence (BI) reporting has become commonly used to support users’ interactions with their data in a more immediate, individualized way. In my journey as a consultant, I have learned how to …

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BH TIG Week: Counting “Distinctly” in Excel by Elizabeth Oyer

Hello! I am Elizabeth Oyer, President of EvalSolutions, Inc. where I provide program evaluation and business consulting services. My projects come in all shapes and sizes and require different tools depending on the complexity and scale. One very familiar tool I use to create data summaries for smaller scale, simpler projects is the Microsoft ExcelTM …

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BH TIG Week: For the Record by Elizabeth Oyer

Hello! I am Elizabeth Oyer, President of EvalSolutions, Inc. where I provide program evaluation and business consulting services. Like many evaluators, my program evaluation designs are often mixed methods with at least one focus group or interview to complement quantitative data. Through the years, I have used a variety of strategies to prepare the hours …

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BH TIG Week: How to Convince, Coax, & Cajole Behavioral Health Providers to Engage with Program Evaluation by Paul Frankel

Hi, everyone.  This is Paul Frankel, and I am an evaluator at Centerstone’s Research Institute. Our division closes the research-to-practice gap for our community mental health centers in Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois, and Florida. I received my doctorate in social psychology from Tulane University, and I was thrilled to attend AEA’s annual meeting in the Big …

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BH TIG Week: Leveraging LinkedIn by Elizabeth Oyer

Hello! I am Elizabeth Oyer, President of EvalSolutions, Inc. where I provide program evaluation and business consulting services. Over the past two years, I have learned a lot about networking strategies in an effort to expand my business, increase my exposure, and build my professional skills to complement my evaluation expertise. Part of this work …

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BH TIG Week: Let’s Meet Up! by Elizabeth Oyer

Hello! I am Elizabeth Oyer, President of EvalSolutions, Inc. where I provide program evaluation and business consulting services. In 2021, I re-organized my business with a concerted effort around modernizing my networking strategies to expand my business. Since 2001, I have provided evaluation consulting and I wanted to translate my skills into new service lines for …

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BH TIG Week: On that Note by Elizabeth Oyer

Hello! I am Elizabeth Oyer, President of EvalSolutions, Inc. where I provide program evaluation and business consulting services.  Regardless of the type of evaluation work we do, project management is a necessary evil. At this stage of my work, I have been trained in and adopted a range of philosophies, strategies, and technologies to organize …

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BH TIG Week: Program Evaluation in Behavioral Health: Limitations of Expert-driven Models and New Directions by Joanna Prout

Hi, my name is Joanna Prout and I am a psychologist and program evaluator in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. I help teams integrate behavioral health supports into school and community settings, including through work at the National Center for School Mental Health (www.schoolmentalhealth.org) and …

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BH TIG Week: Making Quality Improvement Accessible and Useful: The Key Role of Data Visualizations by Eryn Collins

Hello! I am Eryn Collins, Research Associate, from Choices Coordinated Care Solutions (https://www.choicesccs.org), a national non-profit organization that uses evidence-informed methods to support individuals in community settings who have significant behavioral, emotional, or substance use challenges. In our organization, we create Performance Quality Improvement (PQI) plans that are team-driven, individualized, and measurable. Our methods for …

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BH TIG Week: Knack: A Tool to Enhance Data Collection and Reporting Efforts by Kristina Little and Sam Robison

Greetings everyone.  We are Kristina Little and Sam Robison from the Louisiana State University Social Research and Evaluation Center (SREC).  In pursuit of our mission to foster healthy social systems, the SREC team undertakes a wide array of activities (e.g., program development, program evaluation, research) requiring data collection and reporting.  Our work largely takes place …

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