Behavioral Health

Hello, my name is Evangeline Danseco and I work as a Performance Measurement Coach at the Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health. I help community-based non-profit agencies develop a performance measurement framework for their organization. In my recent work with community-based agencies, I encourage them to think about including both SMART …

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Hi, I’m Lisa Melchior, President of The Measurement Group LLC, a consulting firm focused on the evaluation of health and social services for at-risk and vulnerable populations. I’d like to share some lessons I’ve learned in close to 30 years of working with community-based behavioral health and other programs that have addressed issues in populations …

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My name is Gisele Tchamba and I work for a faith-based organization where I lead in evaluation capacity building. I am also one of the ADAMH TIG leaders.  Today I want to share my experience with the implementation of a new treatment model for behavioral health providers in my county. The Recovery Oriented Systems of …

ADAMH Week: Gisele Tchamba on the Transtheoretical Model (TTM): An Evaluation Tool for Organizational Change within Behavioral Health Services Read More »

Greetings AEA365 community.  My name is Paul St. Roseman, and I am the owner/principal investigator with DataUse Consulting Group.  The intersection of evaluation and professional development has been an interest of mine throughout my 20-year career as an educator and evaluation researcher.  Within my practice, I have observed how participation in evaluations impact how people: …

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I am Julie Slay, Senior Director of Evaluation at Arabella Advisors, a consulting firm that helps philanthropists and investors achieve the greatest good with their resources. Often, we are asked to evaluate a funder’s portfolio or initiative using indicators based on secondary data sets that reflect community-level and individual-level outcomes. Administrative data have potential to …

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I am Dr. Trena Anastasia, an independent evaluator and principle at QDG Consulting.  In our office spring means grant writing and grant writing means pulling together logic models quickly.  In my practice, communication is essential and having a quick way to synthesize a client’s ideas, thoughts, goals, etc. in a logic model so I can …

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I’m Dr. Kathleen Ferreira, Director of Research and Evaluation at the Center for Social Innovation in Needham Massachusetts and one of the chairs of the ADAMH TIG. I’ve spent a number of years providing technical assistance (TA) in theory of change logic model development in systems of care serving youth with behavioral health challenges. A …

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Greetings everyone! – My name is Roger Boothroyd and I’m from the University of South Florida. I have been conducting evaluations on the delivery of mental health services and programs for nearly 30 years, primarily working with government entities. It is my pleasure to introduce the Alcohol Drug Abuse and Mental Health (ADAMH) TIG’s week …

ADAMH Week: Roger Boothroyd with an Introduction to the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health TIG Week Read More »