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Evaluating Comprehensive Community Initiatives

This evaluation system includes many strategies and efforts to understand and improve community initiatives. It aims to empower communities, promote collaboration, and assess outcomes.

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Evaluating Comprehensive Community Initiatives

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  1. Evaluating Comprehensive Community Initiatives

  2. Initiatives should include: • Many strategies • Many efforts • Many parts of the community

  3. Goals of evaluation: • To understand what’s going on. • To empower communities to take care of their own problems.

  4. Why evaluate? • To understand how initiatives develop and succeed. • To improve programs. • To give community members a “voice”. • To hold groups accountable.

  5. Community Evaluation System

  6. Supporting Collaborative Planning: • Documenting community implementation, action, and change • Assessing community adaptation, institutionalization, capacity • Evaluating more distal outcomes • Promoting dissemination • Supporting Collaborative Planning • Involves diverse groups of people • Clarifies your visions, messages, and strategies • Identifies the changes your group seeks • Identifies local resources • Documenting implementation, action, and change

  7. Documentation of: • Local efforts/accomplishments • Changes related to mission

  8. How things were achieved • Intermediate outcomes. • Assessing adaption, institutionalization, and capacity. • Look at how intervention has changed. • Determine if efforts to sustain initiative are effective. • Determine if measures to improve capacity are effective.

  9. Evaluating More Distal Outcomes • Use quantitative as well as qualitative methods to understand efforts. • Document and recognize intermediate outcomes (i.e., community and systems changes).

  10. Promoting Dissemination • Presentations • Professional articles • Workshops/training • Handbooks • Media reports • The Internet

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