Greetings! Welcome to the Community Psychology TIG Week! I, Carissa Coleman, a Community Psychologist from James Bell Associates as well as the other members of the TIG Leadership Team, welcome you to a week of Community Psychology and our influence in evaluation work. Our Community Psychology ideals spread across many disciplines including psychology, social work, …
Hello! My name is Nick Petten, owner of Petten Consulting in Toronto, Canada. I am a practicing program evaluator focused on child and youth programs and a children’s rights advocate. My work with children and young people over the last decade and a half has impressed upon me that they are fully capable of expressing …
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My name is Susan Igras, a Senior Advisor at the Institute for Reproductive Health, Georgetown University whose work is mainly focused in Africa and Asia. One of our projects is operating in urban-poor areas of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Designed to evaluate scalable interventions that address social and normative factors that limit adolescent and …
We are Aspen, Journey, Sira, Sati, and Alexus- members of the Youth Evaluation Team at the Goodman Community Center (GCC) in Madison, Wisconsin. We are high school youth who work with GCC staff, and graduate students and researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to evaluate different programs in our community centers and schools. Lessons Learned: …
Hello! We’re Elizabeth DiLuzio and Miranda Yates from the Strategy, Evaluation, and Learning Division at Good Shepherd Services in New York City. As an organization dedicated to youth and family development, we strive to develop and offer programs that integrate the values, insights, and ideas of our participants. And, as an organization dedicated to evidence-based …
I’m Amy Campbell, an evaluator at Centerstone Research Institute in Nashville, TN. While I work on several evaluation projects, one of the most rewarding is the Tennessee Healthy Transitions Initiative, where I’m able to work closely with youth and young adults (Y/YA) who have or are at risk of developing mental health or co-occurring disorders. …
Greetings from the Get Outdoors Leadville Youth Research Team! We are writing from 10,200’ in Leadville, Colorado. We live in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, but many of our friends and classmates do not venture out into nature. This year we completed a project to learn “How do we connect youth in our community …
My name is Tamara Hamai, and I am President of Hamai Consulting, an evaluation firm focused on improving child well-being from cradle through career. I’ve been consulting since 2007, and have learned a lot of lessons the hard way. Ever since adopting the Book Yourself Solid system (created by Michael Port), I’ve benefited from 90 …
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My name is Elayne Vlahaki and I am the President of Catalyst Consulting Inc., an independent evaluation consulting firm based in Vancouver, British Columbia. I have held multiple sessional appointments teaching the Program Planning and Evaluation course within the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. You can follow me on Twitter @Catalyst_Tweets. A …
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My name is Jennifer Dewey, and I am a Senior Director with Walter R. McDonald and Associates, Inc. (WRMA). Over the years, I have worked for organizations that receive a substantial amount of business in health and human services from Federal, state, and local-level entities. A key method to obtaining this work is partnering with …
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