Hello! I’m Molly Ryan, a Research Associate at the Institute for Community Health (ICH), a non-profit in Cambridge, MA that specializes in community based participatory research and evaluation. I am part of the team evaluating the Central Massachusetts Child Trauma Center (CMCTC) initiative, which seeks to strengthen and improve access to evidence-based, trauma-informed mental health …
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Hello, we are Emily Lauer and Courtney Dutra from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Developmental Disability Evaluation and Research (CDDER). We have designed and conducted a number of evaluations of programs and projects for elders and people with disabilities. In this post, we focus on the topic of person-centered evaluations. We have …
Hi Eval Friends! We are Kerry Zaleski and Mary Crave of the University of Wisconsin-Extension and Tererai Trent of Tinogona Foundation and Drexel University. Over the past few years we have co-facilitated workshops on participatory M&E methods for centering vulnerable voices at AEA conferences and eStudies. This year, we are pleased to introduce participatory processes …
Hi! I’m Brian Yates. This is the fourth piece in a series of AEA365’s on using costs in evaluation. I started using costs as well as outcomes in my program evaluations in the mid-1970s, when I joined the faculty of the Department of Psychology at American University in Washington, DC. Today I’m still including costs …
We are Karen Countryman-Roswurm, Executive Director, and Bailey Patton, Community Outreach Coordinator, at Wichita State University’s Center for Combating Human Trafficking (CCHT). CCHT provides education, training, consultation, research, and public policy services to build the capacity for effective anti-trafficking prevention, intervention, and aftercare responses. A primary service of CCHT is training organizations on The Lotus …
I’m Jeff Sheldon from the School of Social Science, Policy, and Evaluation at Claremont Graduate University and today I’m introducing the Survey of Empowerment Evaluation Practice, Principles, and Outcomes (SEEPPO). I developed SEEPPO for my dissertation, but more important, as a tool that can be modified for use by researchers on evaluation and evaluation practitioners. …
My name is Rachel Becker-Klein and I am an evaluator and a Community Psychologist with almost a decade of experience evaluating programs. Since 2005, I have worked withPEER Associates, an evaluation firm that provides customized, utilization-focused program evaluation and educational research services for organizations nationwide. Recently I have been used an interview and analysis methodology …
Hi, I’m Abe Wandersman and I have been working since the last century to help programs achieve outcomes by building capacity for program personnel to use evaluation proactively. The words “evaluation” and “accountability” scare many people involved in health and human services programs and in education. They are afraid that evaluation of their program will …
Hi! I’m Wendi Siebold, President of Strategic Prevention Solutions, a consulting firm that works to address and prevent social and health problems through research, evaluation and training. We spend a lot of time in communities working with non-profit organizations to improve staff and organizational evaluation capacity. Currently, we are the “empowerment evaluator” for domestic violence …
Hello. We are Tara Gregory, Director of Research and Evaluation at Wichita State University’s Center for Community Support and Research, and Natalie Wilkins, Behavioral Scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We’re members of the Leadership Council for the Community Psychology TIG and are excited to introduce this week’s blogs highlighting connection among …
