Hi, I’m Lorraine Graves, an Assistant Professor from North Carolina Central University in the Department of Social Work and a 2019 Minority Serving Institute fellow with American Evaluation Association. I teach program evaluation to Master of Social Work (MSW) students. I find program evaluation is a course that increases students’ anxiety because of its connection …
Hello! I am Candace Carter, PhD an Assistant Professor of Social Work at Mississippi Valley State University. I had the unique opportunity to serve as a fellow in the 2019 cohort of the American Evaluation Association Minority Serving Institution (MSI) Faculty Initiative. I teach methods of social work research, needs assessment and program evaluation in the …
Hello! I’m Carrie Petrucci, MSW, Ph.D. I came to evaluation by doing it before I knew I was doing it. Truth be told, my mixed methods dissertation was indeed an “evaluation”. However, I discovered early on that I didn’t dare call it that because evaluation research was “poo-pooed” at most research universities (at that time, …
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Greetings! My name is Jennifer Lyons, MSW from Lyons Visualization, LLC. I am a social worker, data designer, and speaker. In my independent consulting business, I bring creative energy to making data intriguing and impactful, while helping clients transform the way they communicate their story. Today I want to talk about a method I like …
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Hi all! My name is Rachel Vinciguerra and I am a master’s student of international development and social work at the University of Pittsburgh. This summer I worked on two program evaluations in Haiti: one a mid-point evaluation for a girls’ empowerment program, the other a preliminary design of M&E protocols for an emerging foster …
Hello! My name is Jennifer Obinna and I am Research and Evaluation Director at The Improve Group, a consulting firm in Minnesota. Our evaluation practice strongly supports and encourages evaluation capacity development with our clients. One of the various ways we do so is to facilitate logic model clinics as a way to assist clients …
Some thoughts on teaching evaluation to social work students… I’m Brandon W. Youker, social worker, evaluator, and professor at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. After a dozen plus years in higher ed., I’ve developed a commitment to community-based learning (CBL) as my primary pedagogy for teaching future social workers about program evaluation. I’ve …
I’m Nicole Clark, licensed social worker and owner of Nicole Clark Consulting, 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 2016, I shared on AEA365 why it matters that evaluators know the difference between the types …
We are Mansoor A.F. Kazi and Yeongbin Kim (University at Albany), realist evaluators for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) System of Care Expansion grant at Chautauqua County, New York. We use research methods drawn from both epidemiology and effective research traditions in partnership with human service agencies to investigate what programs …
I’m Alice Walters, a member of AEA’s Social Work TIG. I am a doctoral student in human services and work as a non-profit consultant in fund development, marketing, and evaluation. In my experience, reluctant stakeholders can be a common evaluation challenge. I present the value of social work insight and appreciative inquiry methods for successfully …
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