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Community Psychology

CP TIG Week: Julianne Manchester on Evaluability Assessment in the Health Professions

6 Comments / Community Psychology / March 22, 2014

My name is Julianne Manchester, Co-Program Chair for the Community Psychology TIG and the PI at Case Western Reserve University- School of Medicine for an evaluation capacity building initiative with health professionals planning educational programs.  I am pleased to be discussing Evaluability Assessment in this kick-off blog post for AEA365. What is Evaluability Assessment (EA)? …

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CP TIG Week: Melissa Strompolis and Suzanne Sutphin on Measuring Well-Being in Child Welfare

1 Comment / Community Psychology / August 30, 2013

Hi!  We are Melissa Strompolis and Suzanne Sutphin.  Melissa is a Research Associate at the Center for Child and Family Studies (CCFS) in the College of Social Work at The University of South Carolina.  Suzanne is a Research Assistant Professor at CCFS.  We are both evaluators of South Carolina’s Child and Family Services Review (CFSR).  …

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CP TIG Week: Nidal Karim on Innovating for Gender Transformative M&E

1 Comment / Community Psychology / August 29, 2013

Greetings! I am Nidal Karim, Gender and Empowerment Impact Measurement Sr. Advisor at CARE, a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. The promotion of gender equality and women’s empowerment defines CARE’s programs worldwide. This means, on a daily basis, I have to think about how to pursue meaning and justice in monitoring & evaluation (M&E) …

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CP TIG Week: Susan Wolfe on Presenting Data on Health Disparities

Leave a Comment / Community Psychology, Health Evaluation / August 28, 2013

My name is Susan Wolfe and I am the owner of Susan Wolfe and Associates, LLC, a consulting firm that applies Community Psychology principles to strengthening organizations and communities.  Most of the evaluation work I do is with federally funded Healthy Start programs that are working to reduce disparities in infant mortality rates. According to …

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CP TIG Week: Helen Singer, Sally Thigpen, and Natalie Wilkins on Understanding Evidence: CDC’s Interactive Tool to Support Evidence-Based Decision Making

Leave a Comment / Community Psychology / August 27, 2013

Greetings! We are Helen Singer, Sally Thigpen, and Natalie Wilkins from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). We are excited to share with you a new tool developed in CDC’s Division of Violence Prevention called Understanding Evidence. Understanding Evidenceis an interactive web resource that supports public health practitioners in making evidence-informed decisions around …

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CP TIG Week: Tara Gregory and Bailey Blair on Using Qualitative Data as a Catalyst for Youth Empowerment

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Community Psychology, Youth Focused Evaluation / August 26, 2013

We’re Tara Gregory, Director of Research and Evaluation, and Bailey Blair, Youth Leadership in Kansas Program Associate, at Wichita State University’s Center for Community Support and Research (CCSR).  CCSR was awarded a grant last year by the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services to provide technical assistance and research services to leadership groups for …

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CP TIG Week: Theresa Armstead on Representing Values in Evaluation Practice: A Balancing Act

Leave a Comment / Community Psychology / August 25, 2013

I am Theresa Armstead, a behavioral scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. I am a co-chair for the Community Psychology Topical Interest Group.   This week’s theme is Pursuing Meaning, Justice, and Well-Being in 21st Century Evaluation Practice. The theme is a blend of …

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Taj Carson on Visualizing Neighborhood-Level Data with Baltimore DataMind

2 Comments / Community Psychology, Data Visualization and Reporting, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / April 17, 2013

I’m Taj Carson, the President of Carson Research Consulting (CRC) in Baltimore, MD. CRC is a research and evaluation consulting firm and we’ve seen first-hand how neighborhood-level data is increasingly being used for tasks such as identifying community conditions and trends or measuring population-level outcomes in research and evaluation. Recently, I was in a meeting …

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Emily Spence-Almaguer on Solution-Focused Therapy

3 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Community Psychology / January 23, 2013

My name is Emily Spence-Almaguer and I am an Associate Professor of Behavioral and Community Health at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. I spend most of my professional time serving as an independent evaluator for community initiatives and conducting assessment studies. I am a social worker by training and have found that …

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CP TIG Bonus: Susan Wolfe on Using Performance Data to Empower Staff and Build Capacity

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Community Psychology, Independent Consulting / November 20, 2012

My name is Susan Wolfe and I am the owner of Susan Wolfe and Associates, LLC, a consulting firm that applies Community Psychology principles to strengthening organizations and communities. I serve as the local evaluator for four programs that are funded by Federal grants for a five year cycle. Each program was required to set …

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