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 …
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 …
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 …
Hello, I’m Jessica Headley Ternes, current manager at Third Sector Capital Partners and a former internal evaluator for a county behavioral health department. During my time spent working in behavioral health, I spent a lot of time interviewing and listening to clients within the system-of-care share their experiences with services and personal stories of their …
Hello! Our names are Jennifer Battis and Kathleen Ferreira, evaluators and researchers at C4 Innovations. Over the past 6 months, we had the opportunity to collaborate with Washington State University (WSU) to conduct an environmental scan of the State of Washington’s collegiate recovery programs. What is collegiate recovery and why is it important? Collegiate recovery …
Hello! I am Elizabeth Oyer, President of EvalSolutions, Inc. (www.evalsolutions.com) where I provide consulting services for personalized operations support as well as program evaluation. I would like to share some lessons I’ve learned about working collaboratively with my clients to manage our shared projects more efficiently, securely, and productively in a virtual space. As an …
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Hi! I’m Jonathan Scaccia, principal of the evaluation firm The Dawn Chorus Group and founder of PubTrawlr. What connects these two strands of work is finding better ways to efficiently and effectively extract meaning from text-based data. There is so much qualitative data out there that is laborious to analyze. Techniques from Natural Language Processing …
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We are Arena Lam (Research Associate) and Anthony Petrosino (Director) from WestEd’s Justice & Prevention Research Center (JPRC). Our organization conducts evaluations and employs many research assistants. We’re often asked by prospective job candidates or newly hired folks what the most important qualities are in successful assistants. This is Part II of a 2-part series …
We are Anthony Petrosino (Director) and Arena Lam (Research Associate) from WestEd’s Justice & Prevention Research Center (JPRC). Our organization conducts many evaluations, and we so value our research assistants. Being a research assistant is often the first step to launching a research career. We’re often asked by job candidates or new employees what the …
We are Sabine Topolansky and JulieAnn Sickell, monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) professionals with the International Republican Institute (IRI), a non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to advancing democracy and governance worldwide. Though not experts on decolonizing evaluation, we recently reflected on our practices and identified 7 Hot Tips to decolonize MEL: Hot Tips: Acknowledge MEL’s …
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