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 …
Hi! We are Krista Collins, Director of Strategy & Innovation at Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA), and Mike Armstrong, Vice President of Club Operations and Evaluation at Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta (BGCMA). Together we seek to understand how our professional development courses and youth programs work in tandem to support …
We are Valerie Hutcherson and Rebekah Hudgins, Research and Evaluation Consultants with the Georgia Family Connection Partnership (GaFCP) (gafcp.org). Started with 15 communities in 1991, Family Connection is the only statewide network of its kind in the nation with collaboratives in all 159 counties dedicated to the health and well-being of families and communities. Through …
I am Holly Kipp, Researcher, from The Oregon Community Foundation (OCF). Today’s post shares some of what we’re learning through our efforts to measure social-emotional learning (SEL) in youth in the context of our K-12 Student Success Initiative. The Initiative, funded in partnership with The Ford Family Foundation, aims to help close the achievement gap …
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Hello again! My name is Jan Noga here with more tips and lessons learned to help you in evaluating programs serving young children. Today’s post will focus on implementing and facilitating evaluative activities. Hot Tip: Using pictures, colored discs, shapes, stickers, or other concrete ways to express a response can be a very useful way …
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Hi! My name is Jan Noga and I am the owner of Pathfinder Evaluation and Consulting, in Cincinnati, Ohio. I’m a developmental and counseling psychologist with a specialization in early and middle childhood. I’ve spent a lot of time in preschools – as a teacher, researcher, observer, and evaluator. I learned from some amazing advisors …
Jan Noga on Surveying Young Children Part One: Planning and preparation are key! Read More »
Hi my name is Kim Sabo Flores, I am the Co-Founder of Algorhythm. Over the last 20+ years, I have been working as an evaluator in the field of youth development. Recently I’ve observed an unfortunate trend in the field: A LOT OF TALK about “evidence-based,” “research-based” and “data-driven” decision-making, and very LITTLE ACTION. This …
YFE TIG Week: Kim Sabo Flores on Data-Driven Decision Making in Youth Focused Evaluation Read More »
My name is Julie Poncelet and I am co-founder of Action Evaluation Collaborative (AEC), a partnership of independent consultants who use evaluation to strengthen social change. We want to share some of the participatory methods we use to engage youth in evaluations. By participatory methods, we mean ways of working together, to gather insights, such …
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Greetings from Toyin Owolabi at the Women’s Health Action Research Center (WHARC) in Nigeria and Susan Igras at Georgetown University’s Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH). Last year, we joined together on a cross-country project to build capacity in designing and evaluating programs for younger adolescents. Younger adolescent programming and related program evaluation is nascent in …
Greetings from Montreal! My name is Mónica Ruiz-Casares and I am an Assistant Professor in the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry and at the Centre for Research on Children and Families at McGill University and an Evaluation Advisor at the Centre de Santé et des Services Sociaux de la Montagne, a primary health and …
