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YFE TIG Week: Sara Plachta Elliott and Alicia McCormick on Youth-Led Quality Improvement

1 Comment / Youth Focused Evaluation / December 1, 2017

We are Sara Plachta Elliott, executive director of the Youth Development Resource Center in Detroit, and Alicia McCormick, youth development director at Urban Neighborhood Initiatives, a community development organization in Detroit that provides a variety of youth programs. We collaborate to improve youth program quality, making the improvement process more youth-led along the way. Many …

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YFE TIG Week: Cassandra Jessee on Promoting and Measuring Positive Youth Development to Empower Youth

Leave a Comment / Youth Focused Evaluation / December 1, 2017

Hi, I am Cassandra Jessee and I serve as the director of the USAID-funded YouthPower Learning project, a youth-focused knowledge-creating, -curating and -convening project and through it, I represent Making Cents International and the International Center for Research on Women in Washington, DC.   We defined our core approach, positive youth development (PYD) to ensure …

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YFE TIG Week: Somongkol Teng on Keys to Conducting Effective Focus Groups with Youth

3 Comments / Youth Focused Evaluation / December 1, 2017

My name is Somongkol Teng, Extension Educator for Evaluation at the University of Minnesota Extension Center for Youth Development. Recently, I conducted an evaluation using focus groups with our 4-H Online Adventure Program, a collaborative, project-based learning program for Minnesota 4-Hers, ages 10 to 12. While many evaluators are familiar with focus groups with adults, …

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YFE TIG Week: Abhijay Kumar and Jordan Scrimger on Advice from Youth Evaluators to Adult Evaluators: Tips to Support our Efforts

Leave a Comment / Youth Focused Evaluation / December 1, 2017

Hi, we are Abhijay Kumar  and Jordan Scrimger, members of the Metropolitan Youth Policy Fellows (MYPF), a diverse group of youth working together for a better metropolitan Detroit. The MYPF, which includes members from multiple communities —across cities, neighborhoods, and suburbs – formed in order to participate in issues that impact our lives. We think …

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YFE TIG Week: Nicole Clark on Reflecting on the Impact of Leadership Programming for Young Women of Color

Leave a Comment / Youth Focused Evaluation / December 1, 2017

I’m Nicole Clark, social worker and owner of Nicole Clark Consulting (http://www.nicoleclarkconsulting.com), where I partner with community-based groups, local/national organizations, schools and more to design, implement, and evaluate programs and services geared toward women and girls of color. In 2015, I conducted an impact evaluation on a 6-week intensive summer leadership program geared towards high …

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CP TIG Week: Job Seeking Advice in Community Psychology by Olya Glantsman and Judah Viola

1 Comment / Community Psychology / July 25, 2017

Hi, we are Olya Glantsman, a visiting professor of Psychology at DePaul University and Judah Viola, a dean of the College of Professional Studies and Advancement at National Louis University in Chicago. Last month we celebrated the release of our book titled Diverse Careers in Community Psychology. The idea for the Diverse Careers in Community …

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CP TIG Week: Incorporating an Equity and Justice Perspective into Coalition and Collaborative Evaluation by Susan Wolfe and Kyrah Brown

Leave a Comment / Community Psychology / July 25, 2017

Our names are Susan M. Wolfe and Kyrah K. Brown and we are consultants at CNM Connect where we provide evaluation and capacity building services to nonprofit organizations.  Our work also includes evaluating community collaborations and coalitions. To effectively address most health, education, and other social issues at a systems level requires that communities address …

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CP TIG Week: Don’t Forget the Outputs: The Importance of Outputs in Communicating Evaluation Plans by Tara Gregory

2 Comments / Community Psychology / July 25, 2017

Hi! I’m Tara Gregory, Director of the Center for Applied Research and Evaluation (CARE) at Wichita State University. Like any evaluator, the staff of CARE are frequently tasked with figuring out what difference programs are making for those they serve. So, we tend to be really focused on outcomes and see outputs as the relatively …

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CP TIG Week: Tailoring Qualitative Methods to Evaluation Clients’ Needs by Jill Scheibler

2 Comments / Community Psychology / July 25, 2017

Hi folks! I’m Jill Scheibler, a community psychologist and Senior Research Analyst at Carson Research Consulting, a women-led firm whose mission is to help clients thrive by using data to measure impact, communicate, and fundraise. We’re passionate about storytelling with data to make a difference. At CRC I’m the “word nerd”, implementing our qualitative projects. …

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CP TIG Week: Community Psychology & Evaluations of Programs Serving Marginalized Groups by Ann Smith Pruitt

Leave a Comment / Community Psychology / July 25, 2017

Aloha! I am Anna Smith Pruitt, a community and cultural psychology doctoral candidate at the University of Hawai‘i at M?noa. I currently work with Dr. Jack Barile and his Ecological Determinants Lab evaluating community mental health and housing programs that serve people experiencing severe mental illness and homelessness on O‘ahu. These program participants are medically …

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