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Empowerment Evaluation. Kimberly L. McKay Program Evaluation and Policy Analysis January 30, 2008. Origins and Background. Self-Determination Theory Community psychology and community-based action research . Empowerment Evaluation . What is empowerment evaluation?
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Empowerment Evaluation Kimberly L. McKay Program Evaluation and Policy Analysis January 30, 2008
Origins and Background • Self-Determination Theory • Community psychology and community-based action research
Empowerment Evaluation • What is empowerment evaluation? • Why use empowerment evaluation? • Who uses empowerment evaluation?
Empowerment Evaluation • David M. Fettermen’s Five Facets to Empowerment Evaluation: • Training • Facilitation • Advocacy • Illumination • Liberation
Empowerment Evaluation • Advantages • Helps people to help themselves • Fettermen’s Five Facets • Used to bring about social and political change • Accountability
Empowerment Evaluation • Disadvantages and Critiques • Lacks objectivity • Lack conceptual and methodological clarity • Difficult to measure success • Long and costly process
Case Study: An Empowerment Evaluation Model for Sexual Assault Programs: Empirical Evidence of Effectiveness By Rebecca Campbell, et al.
Sexual Assault and Rape Prevention (SARP) Evaluation Project • Multi-year evaluation project conducted with all state-funded rape prevention programs and rape victim services programs in Michigan • Empowerment Evaluation: • Goal of SARP
SARP Evaluation Project Model • SARP Team members included stakeholders from multiple groups • SARP Team worked with ten rape prevention programs and twenty-four victim services programs
SARP Evaluation Project Model • The SARP Team focused on three activities: • Assessing needs • Developing evaluation training materials • Providing evaluation training and technical assistance
Effectiveness of the SARP Evaluation Project • Used a multi-method system of analysis that included: • Measuring the programs’ satisfaction with the SARP model • Tracking the programs’ progress in developing evaluation skills • Tracking the programs’ long-term capacity
Overall Conclusions of the SARP Evaluation Project Model • 90% of the rape prevention programs made substantial progress in planning and conducting evaluations • 75% of the victim services programs had successfully launched program evaluations • My thoughts . . .