Human Services Evaluation

Gary Resnick on Using Social Network Analysis to Describe Inter-Organizational Coordination and Collaboration Networks

My name is Gary Resnick and I am the Director of Research at Harder+Company Community Research, a California-based consulting firm. My background combines program evaluation with child development research, and I have an interest in system theory and networks. Harder+Company has been involved evaluating First 5 programs in a number of California counties. First 5 …

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SCEA Week: Bill Shennum & Kate LaVelle on the Multiple Uses of Multiple Data Sources

Greetings. We are Bill Shennum and Kate LaVelle, staff members in the Research Department at Five Acres, a nonprofit child and family services agency located in Altadena, CA and serving the greater Los Angeles area. We work as internal evaluators to support outcome measurement and continuous quality improvement within the organization. In our roles as …

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SCEA Week: Bonnie Richards on Valuing in the Social Services

My name is Bonnie Richards, and I am a Research Associate with Vital Research, an evaluation and consulting company located in Los Angeles, California. The Social Services sector is among the industries we serve when designing and implementing evaluation projects. Lessons Learned: So, what frames a Social Services evaluation project? Consider how values and valuing …

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GOV TIG Week: Ariana Brooks on When Evaluation Cannot Solve Management Issues

My name is Ariana Brooks and I am the Director of Evaluation, Research and Planning for HeartShare Human Services. Lesson Learned: When I started as an internal evaluator my supervisor, Stan Capela, stressed to me one main point: evaluation does not solve management problems. My initial reaction was it made sense and remember similar issues …

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GOV TIG Week: Susan Fojas on Using Regular Stakeholder Forums to Facilitate Evaluation

My name is Susan Fojas. As the Associate Commissioner for Performance Measurement, Monitoring, and Improvement at New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), my goal is to improve the quality of services and outcomes achieved for children in foster care through evaluation and monitoring. Hot Tip: A valuable part of the evaluation process is …

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GOV TIG Week: Caroline DeWitt on Valuing Stakeholders in the Evaluation Process

My name is Caroline DeWitt. I am a senior evaluator with Human Resources and Skill Development in Ottawa, Canada, and a member of the AEA Government Evaluation TIG. Our department is responsible for several evaluations ranging from labour market outcomes to grant and contributions programs delivered through third parties. An area of my responsibility was …

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Sudharshan Seshadri on Resources for Program Evaluation

Hello! My name is Sudharshan Seshadri and I am currently pursuing my Masters degree in Professional Studies specializing in Humanitarian Services Administration. I started to realize that “data” is being considered as a most promising feature to understand the activity of evaluation. To abstract the data needs, I believe as an evaluator, we should be …

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GOVT Week: Stanley Capela on Government Evaluation

My name is Stanley Capela. I am the Vice President for Quality Management at HeartShare Human Services of New York and the current Chair of AEA’s Government Evaluation TIG. Major Hot Tip: If you attend the AEA Conference this November, attend our business meeting where we will celebrate 20 years of Government Evaluation. Joseph Wholey …

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Poster Week: Virginia Dick on Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Evaluation

My name is Virginia Dick and I am currently public service evaluation faculty at the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia. Most of my work focuses on assisting state and local government agencies, and other university divisions, with evaluation of programs, policies and systems. As part of my role I often …

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