Innovation Network's own workbook on evaluation planning. Can be used alone or in conjunction with the Evaluation Plan Builder at the Point K Learning Center.
Do-It-Yourself Logic Models: Examples, Templates, and ChecklistsInnovation Network
Logic models are nonprofit road maps: they help you diagram where you are now and where you hope to be in the future. They are used for program planning, program management, fundraising, communications, consensus-building, and evaluation planning.
Want to make a logic model, but not sure where to start? In this 90-minute webinar, Johanna Morariu and Ann Emery taught about the nuts and bolts of logic models--what they are, how to make them, who should be involved in the process, and how often to update them. We’ll provide you with tools like a logic model template, free online logic model builder, and a logic model checklist. We’ll also share several examples from real nonprofits so that you’re ready to hit the ground running.
To learn more, please visit www.innonet.org.
CSU Extension, Engagement and the Logic modelSteven Newman
Presentation delivered to graduate class Principles of Extension.
Much of the material generated in this lecture were from the extension, logic model, scholarship of engagement were taken from the University of Wisconsin-Extension, Program Development and Evaluation program.
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/pdande/evaluation/evallogicmodel.html
This is a 2-hour presentation and workshop given to the residents at Boston University as part of the Dental Public Health program. Topic presents one of the useful tools for program planning and evaluation in any field. A list of useful websites for online courses and worksheets are provided at the end.
Refreshing Evaluation in Support of the Social Movements RevivalInnovation Network
There is a growing social consciousness in America and a revival of using social movements as a vehicle for social change—with increasing nonprofit involvement and philanthropic funding support. Since the mid-2000’s there have been several notable movements that have taken hold of the public consciousness: the immigration reform movement and DREAMers, The Occupy Movement, Gay Marriage, climate change movement, Black Lives Matter, and a nascent, potential movement developing in protest of the Trump Administration. While evaluating movements has some parallels to established evaluation practice, it also represents some thorny challenges. In a session presented at the American Evaluation Association Conference on November 10, 2017, we explore and share what we are learning about evaluating social movements, including: what we know about social movements, their components, characteristics, and types; what aspects of social movements are ripe for evaluation; and what existing evaluation approaches are well suited to evaluating social movements.
Innovation Network's own workbook on evaluation planning. Can be used alone or in conjunction with the Evaluation Plan Builder at the Point K Learning Center.
Do-It-Yourself Logic Models: Examples, Templates, and ChecklistsInnovation Network
Logic models are nonprofit road maps: they help you diagram where you are now and where you hope to be in the future. They are used for program planning, program management, fundraising, communications, consensus-building, and evaluation planning.
Want to make a logic model, but not sure where to start? In this 90-minute webinar, Johanna Morariu and Ann Emery taught about the nuts and bolts of logic models--what they are, how to make them, who should be involved in the process, and how often to update them. We’ll provide you with tools like a logic model template, free online logic model builder, and a logic model checklist. We’ll also share several examples from real nonprofits so that you’re ready to hit the ground running.
To learn more, please visit www.innonet.org.
CSU Extension, Engagement and the Logic modelSteven Newman
Presentation delivered to graduate class Principles of Extension.
Much of the material generated in this lecture were from the extension, logic model, scholarship of engagement were taken from the University of Wisconsin-Extension, Program Development and Evaluation program.
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/pdande/evaluation/evallogicmodel.html
This is a 2-hour presentation and workshop given to the residents at Boston University as part of the Dental Public Health program. Topic presents one of the useful tools for program planning and evaluation in any field. A list of useful websites for online courses and worksheets are provided at the end.
Refreshing Evaluation in Support of the Social Movements RevivalInnovation Network
There is a growing social consciousness in America and a revival of using social movements as a vehicle for social change—with increasing nonprofit involvement and philanthropic funding support. Since the mid-2000’s there have been several notable movements that have taken hold of the public consciousness: the immigration reform movement and DREAMers, The Occupy Movement, Gay Marriage, climate change movement, Black Lives Matter, and a nascent, potential movement developing in protest of the Trump Administration. While evaluating movements has some parallels to established evaluation practice, it also represents some thorny challenges. In a session presented at the American Evaluation Association Conference on November 10, 2017, we explore and share what we are learning about evaluating social movements, including: what we know about social movements, their components, characteristics, and types; what aspects of social movements are ripe for evaluation; and what existing evaluation approaches are well suited to evaluating social movements.
Learn to create a program logic model. Designed for Cooperative Extension Service professionals providing university outreach programs. Logic models are a mainstay in the program development process for community-based, outreach programs.
2. grantseeking creating a program logic modelRebecca White
Grants for beginners. Module 2 of grant seeking series. Covers how to develop a program logic model for grant development. Basic program logic models include highlighting the situation and priorities; development of overall program goal; determining program outcomes, outputs and inputs; identifying any assumptions and external factors that are in play; and developing an program evaluation plan.
Federal, state, provincial and foundation grant applications in both the United States and Canada are increasingly requiring the use of logic models in their grant applications. Depending on the level of complexity required, these can prove a major stumbling block, especially with looming deadlines. The purpose of this seminar is to unlock the mystery surrounding their development and use. At the conclusion, we will not promise that you will like them any better, just understand them and fear them less.
During the 2015 American Evaluation Association's Annual Conference in Chicago, Katherine Haugh and Deborah Grodzicki conducted a real time data mini-study to see which evaluation approaches evaluators at #eval15 use most frequently in their work. Basing their mini-study off of Marvin C. Alkin's "Evaluation Roots: A Wider Perspective of Theorists’ Views and Influences," they asked evaluators to vote for the top two approaches they used most often. This handout accompanied the real time data mini-study to provide more information about the formation of the evaluation theory tree, it's three branches, and definitions of the evaluation approaches associated with each branch.
Issue 2: Effectiveness of Mentoring Program Practices.
This series was developed by MENTOR and translates the latest mentoring research into tangible strategies for mentoring practitioners. Research In Action (RIA) makes the best available research accessible and relevant to the mentoring field.
Evaluation for Impact and Learning Asia Value Advisors Nov 6 2014Victor Kuo
The workshop will overview intermediate and advanced concepts of evaluating the impact of philanthropic foundations as well as the organizational systems that support impact evaluation and learning within foundations. Main topics include: prioritizing evaluation audiences and purposes, selecting among a range of evaluation designs (randomized controlled trials, quasi-experimental designs, correlational studies, descriptive studies); organizational readiness for evaluation and learning; and organizational learning. A range of practical tools for developing evaluation projects and for building organizational practices in evaluation and learning will also be shared. Current debates, criticisms, and possible ways forward will be presented using select cases and illustrations. Participants will be encouraged to bring their own examples, offer honest appraisals, and identify ways to advance their own philanthropic work. (This workshop is at an intermediate level; basic concepts of evaluation will be reviewed briefly in the context of more advanced topics.)
Fevatools is a web-based toolkit to jump-start your efforts to conduct formative evaluation of student learning and course design. Come learn more about how SDSU faculty are using freely available, web-based tools to gather data that informs iterative refinement of their course designs.
Learn to create a program logic model. Designed for Cooperative Extension Service professionals providing university outreach programs. Logic models are a mainstay in the program development process for community-based, outreach programs.
2. grantseeking creating a program logic modelRebecca White
Grants for beginners. Module 2 of grant seeking series. Covers how to develop a program logic model for grant development. Basic program logic models include highlighting the situation and priorities; development of overall program goal; determining program outcomes, outputs and inputs; identifying any assumptions and external factors that are in play; and developing an program evaluation plan.
Federal, state, provincial and foundation grant applications in both the United States and Canada are increasingly requiring the use of logic models in their grant applications. Depending on the level of complexity required, these can prove a major stumbling block, especially with looming deadlines. The purpose of this seminar is to unlock the mystery surrounding their development and use. At the conclusion, we will not promise that you will like them any better, just understand them and fear them less.
During the 2015 American Evaluation Association's Annual Conference in Chicago, Katherine Haugh and Deborah Grodzicki conducted a real time data mini-study to see which evaluation approaches evaluators at #eval15 use most frequently in their work. Basing their mini-study off of Marvin C. Alkin's "Evaluation Roots: A Wider Perspective of Theorists’ Views and Influences," they asked evaluators to vote for the top two approaches they used most often. This handout accompanied the real time data mini-study to provide more information about the formation of the evaluation theory tree, it's three branches, and definitions of the evaluation approaches associated with each branch.
Issue 2: Effectiveness of Mentoring Program Practices.
This series was developed by MENTOR and translates the latest mentoring research into tangible strategies for mentoring practitioners. Research In Action (RIA) makes the best available research accessible and relevant to the mentoring field.
Evaluation for Impact and Learning Asia Value Advisors Nov 6 2014Victor Kuo
The workshop will overview intermediate and advanced concepts of evaluating the impact of philanthropic foundations as well as the organizational systems that support impact evaluation and learning within foundations. Main topics include: prioritizing evaluation audiences and purposes, selecting among a range of evaluation designs (randomized controlled trials, quasi-experimental designs, correlational studies, descriptive studies); organizational readiness for evaluation and learning; and organizational learning. A range of practical tools for developing evaluation projects and for building organizational practices in evaluation and learning will also be shared. Current debates, criticisms, and possible ways forward will be presented using select cases and illustrations. Participants will be encouraged to bring their own examples, offer honest appraisals, and identify ways to advance their own philanthropic work. (This workshop is at an intermediate level; basic concepts of evaluation will be reviewed briefly in the context of more advanced topics.)
Fevatools is a web-based toolkit to jump-start your efforts to conduct formative evaluation of student learning and course design. Come learn more about how SDSU faculty are using freely available, web-based tools to gather data that informs iterative refinement of their course designs.
Building Organizational Capacity Preview and FeedbackBonner Foundation
This session was led by Rachayita Shah and Ariane Hoy at the Bonner Fall Directors Meeting. This session previewed and gained feedback on aspects of the series designed to help upper class students (specifically juniors) understand the sectors (especially nonprofit) and how they might engage in building the capacity of an organization. This series also focuses on student career development, helping them identify future pathways.
Paul McArthur, Jerry Koh, Vani Jain and Mali Bain
System Insights from ‘WellAhead’: A Social Innovation Lab Approach to Advance the Prioritization and Sustained Integration of Student Social and Emotional Wellbeing in K-12 Schools:
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THIS WEEK’S WORK IS TWO DISCUSSIONS. Week 6: Social Change and Professional Development
The characteristics of program design and evaluationare intended to provide some level of recommended change or action as a result of the systematic investigation into a program’s effectiveness. Evaluation can provide answers to questions about a program that may be useful in adjusting a program to become more effective. Because evaluation results in insight about the effectiveness of a program for a specific population, evaluation can be used to implement social change or action. Evaluation findings may assist stakeholders (those who hold an interest) or decision makers in go/no-go decisions about specific program modifications or initiate the continuation or demise of the entire program. Today, social policy and public administrative movement are closely associated with social program outcomes and effective evaluations.
This week, you present your design for a program addressing the needs of the homeless population in your community and analyze how your program may effect social change. You also evaluate your potential to impact areas of human services delivery and assess the benefits of participating in professional human services organizations.
Objectives
By the end of this week, you should be able to:
· Analyze how human services program design and evaluation influence social change
· Evaluate personal impact on areas of human services delivery
· Analyze how professional organizations contribute to professional development
Learning Resources
Required Readings
Kettner, P. M., Moroney, R. M., & Martin, L. L. (2017). Designing and managing programs: An effectiveness-based approach (5th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
· Review Chapter 6, “Selecting the Appropriate Intervention Strategy”
Donaldson, L. P. (2008). Developing a progressive advocacy program within a human services agency. Administration in Social Work, 32(2), 25–48.
Grant, H. M., & Crutchfield, L. R. (2007). Creating high-impact nonprofits. Stanford Social Innovation Review, 5(4), 32–41.
Skinner, K., & Whyte, B. (2004). Going beyond training: Theory and practice in managing learning. Social Work Education, 23(4), 365–381.
Council for Standards in Human Service Education. (2010). Retrieved from http://www.cshse.org/
Center for Credentialing & Education. (n.d.). Human services—Board certified practitioner. Retrieved November 22, 2011, from http://www.cce-global.org /HSBCP
Optional Resource
Simon, S. R., Webster, J. A., & Horn, K. (2007). A critical call for connecting students and professional associations. Social Work with Groups, 30(4), 5–19.
Retrieved from the Walden Library using the SocINDEX with Full Text database.
THIS IS DUE WEDNESDAY 8/18/21 BY 10 PMDiscussion 1: Social Change
There is a variety of elements that human services professionals should consider when they are developing and evaluating human services programs. Some of these elements include conducting a needs asse ...
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Critique 1
You have great reflection. I could not concur more with you on the importance of involving students directly and indirectly in the learning procedure and how it will facilitate teachers to assess the learner performance in their developmental phases. You noted that the teacher should focus on developing the learners’ capacity to perceive and appreciate things from different learning perspectives. I do agree with you, but how can we do that? I would like to know your opinion on this point.
Regarding to the memorization strategy of learning, memorization is one of the most difficult way for me to deal with. I could not memorize a lot and I can spend a night to memorize one passage. Till today, I could not find a way that makes me able to memorize more. It is really important that teachers and instructors understand that memorization for some students, like me, is very hard and sometimes impossible to memorize.
Critique 2
Meaningful learning occurs when learners are ready, and the materials are appropriate to the learners. If we don' t have any information about the learners, the materials we prepare for the learners might be useless. So I think knowing the readiness of the leaners is very important, and all the learners have different needs, that's why teaching learning strategies is very important. Even the leaners have exposed different learning and cognitive environment, they can choose a strategy we teach , which helps them experience meaningful learning.
Critique 3
I really liked your reflection and the way you clearly stated your opinion. I noticed that you didn’t talk about both Bruner’s and Vygotsky’s theories mentioned by Driscoll (2005), in this week’s chapter. I would love to read more about your opinion regarding these two important theories by these two great figures and maybe compare them with the model of Collins and Stevens.
Critique 4
“The teacher involve students directly in the learning process because this will help them appreciate their weaknesses” I was wandering if the students involve in the learning process how they will appreciate their weakness? I think no one appreciate his\her weakness all of us could appreciate our hard work but not our weakness. What do you think? You said, “Learning should not be viewed as a class an in-class process alone rather a lifelong process that takes places everywhere” I believe that what we have learned in any educational place should we benefit from it to solve the problems outside of educational place. However, you mentioned, ”The process of meaningful learning is an outcome of interaction of the teaching process, and the way the learner is receiving and processing the information” but do you think also that culture and social play important role to produce meaningful learning process?
I have Chosen Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency for Assignment this must be used for the assignment. Their website is www.waynemetro.org/we-can-help
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Topic This Is A Grant Proposal About ChildrenAdolescents With ADHD.docxcandycemidgley
Topic: This Is A Grant Proposal About Children/Adolescents With ADHD in Durham NC
Objective: You are to use the topic and create a Proposal on ADHD Children/Adolescents In Durham NC
Paper Structure: Problem identification, prevalence, assessment of resources, impact of the problem, implementation plan and a closing statement should be your subtitles for the proposal and this is what should be answered in each section:
Problem Identification:
Research and identify resources for a specific developmental, behavioral, or diagnostic need for children or adolescents in your community (3–4 pages):
a. Prevalence: Determine a necessary program or service by examining current needs for children or adolescents in your community, using the standards established by the American Psychiatric Association.
i. What is the issue you have chosen to address? Who is affected? What data do you have that points to the prevalence of this issue?
ii. What is the necessary service or program? How will it address the needs you have examined?
b. Assessment of Resources: Evaluate available and needed resources in your community.
i. Evaluate the resources available for providing a program or service such as the one you have identified. ii. Determine necessary resources that are not available and explain their importance in providing the identified program or service.
c. Impact of Problem: Describe the impact of the problem on individuals, families, and the community. Construct an impact statement based on the prevalence of the identified issue and the lack of community resources. i. Articulate how the lack of the identified program or service has an impact on the community.
ii. How is the lack of available resources exacerbating the issue?
II.
Literature Review:
Conduct a review of available literature around developmental theory in regard to your identified issue (3–4 pages):
a. Problem/Need: Using American Psychiatric Association criteria and current professional research publications, how is the identified developmental, behavioral, or diagnostic problem identified/diagnosed in children and adolescents?
b. Theory Survey and Comparison: Survey current developmental theories.
i. Identify the factors that contribute to the prevalence of the problem according to these theories.
ii. How do these different theories compare? What are their contrasting opinions in regard to prevalence and diagnosis of your identified problem?
III.
Intervention Strategy:
Research and justify the selection of a theoretically supported and effective intervention strategy for addressing the target issue (2–3 pages):
a. Efficacy: Analyze and critique at least two established intervention strategies for inconsistencies and effectiveness.
i. Critically examine intervention strategies fo ...
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SGM 3585/3685: Project Description
Include a detailed description of your internship project and a high-level plan for its implementation. The project must be specific and entrepreneurial/innovative. You will be working on a project to create something new and valuable for your partner organization.
Project name, description, and purpose
Description of the issue, need or work to be achieved
“Be Your Own Boss Bowl Competition," Competition for all temple student and alumni to participate.
Research the events, write out all the reports of the resource to get in touch with the alumni and other staff at Temple.
Promoting “Business Plan Competition” BYOBB. Having a marketing plan for this event that will attract past alumni to get connected with the events.
Company and People involved (include intern, company supervisor, and course instructor)
Who will be the critical path contacts for this project?
Company: Temple University
Supervisor: Erin Mcshea
People involved: Ellen, Lindsay, Clark, and Jake
The supervisor and staff will provide help for the project and identify the issues and step for the project and the goal to achieve.
The Alumni at Temple University
Goal to be achieved
Use SMART Goal language and descriptors
Increase Alumni to participate in the competition
Specific: Reach how many numbers of alumni to participate into the competition.
Measurable: research the #s of past alumni participants. Historical data breakdown
Achievable: Having a marketing plan, do as much promotion as possible, post to the social media.
Result: does it increase the alumni to participate.
Time-Bound: will be finished at the end of the semester.
The current State of Organization
Description of the current state of the organization as it relates to the project.
Director, Student
For the current stage of the organization is mostly undergraduate student in fox and some undergraduate from other temple school.
So, for now, is to get more Alumni.
Timeline
Work plan schedule (include timeline + milestones + tasks)
Thursday – 9-3
Friday-9-3
Work Schedule every Thur-9-3 and Fri 9-3
Oct.25, 26:
doing research, review the competition, information overview, Identify ways to reach the alumni staff, and research on what resource is available for promoting the events.
Nov.1:
review what has been done,
Nov.8,9:
putting together all the research information and marketing plan.
Nov.22,23:
drafting of the material, send email to the alumni, drafting the poster, social media.
Dec.6,7:
finalized the full report
Milestones & Metrics
Milestones to be met and metrics used to measure success.
1: putting information together and organize the past data of the events.
2: Identify how to contact the alumni, and resource from each school and each audience.
3: get the participation goal
4: creating a marketing plan
5: execute the plan
Additional Stakeholders
Who can impact the results of this project and who will be affected by the project?
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My project idea is developing a grant that will assist with disruptiAlyciaGold776
My project idea is developing a grant that will assist with disruptive/unruly high school students. Once this proposal is developed and funded it will assist schools and their teachers with methods that will allow them to be more in control of their classrooms which will ultimately promote effectiveness and a higher graduation rate. Better classroom management techniques will be more appealing to stakeholders and other organizations because it will make education in the public school system more marketable when compared to private schools.
Assignment 2: Final Project: Writing the Grant Part 2: Methodology and Evaluation Plans
The methodology section is one of the core components of the grant. This section is concerned with addressing the question: “How will you carry out the project?” (Gitlin & Lyons, 2014, p. 92). For example, if your proposal is for a nonprofit-related project, you might identify the population served or indicate who will receive services. Depending on the grant type, you may also include the research sample and associated inclusion criteria. A research proposal may also include the research design strategy, assumptions, validity, reliability, statistical analysis, timeline, and evaluation plans. Finally, in this section you may address human resources requirements and materials or supplies needed to complete the project.
In recent years, evaluation plans have become increasingly important to prospective funders. Competition for grants is intense, and funders must feel confident that money will be well spent and that projects can be appropriately evaluated. This is an important consideration for the grant seeker as well. Your organization will also want to be assured that the time and effort put into a project proves that the objectives are met and if not, why.
For this Assignment:
Review the Final Project Guidelines provided in this module’s Learning Resources.
Carefully review your Gitlin & Lyons text, the University of Wisconsin-Extension resource, and the Community Tool Box resource as well as other Learning Resources that focus on methodology and evaluation. You may also find additional online information from reputable grant-related organizations, such as Foundation Center and individual private funders.
Remember that this content must demonstrate that it addresses funder interests as well as the grantee perspective.
In 3–5 pages, provide your Methodology and Evaluation Plans.
In developing the methodology for your project, keep these thoughts in mind:
A project should undertake only activities that will move it toward the objectives.
If any activities are not necessary for reaching the objectives, do not include them in the proposal.
The methodology includes the day-to-day, week-to-week, and/or month-to-month activities that will be carried out during the project period.
The Methodology includes:
Program description
Research design
Human subjects (sample)
Study validity and reliability
Assumpti ...
Tiffany Derville Gallicano, Journal of Public Relations Education, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 128-132
"The purpose of this assignment is to adopt a strategic planning approach to the task of creating engaging social media content in a real-world context. For this assignment, students work as a class to set a weekly research-based objective and work in teams to plan the communication department’s Facebook fan page content for every day of a work week (Monday-Friday) during the semester. Other fan page account administrators can post important departmental content throughout the semester without disrupting the week-by-week student takeovers of the fan page. This assignment has been popular in social media and public relations strategy classes. This assignment provides an experiential way for students to apply basic statistical concepts, assessment data, and message design theories. In addition, it has the benefit of serving as a potential resume item and portfolio sample."
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PSY 638 Final Project Guidelines and Rubric
Overview
The final project for this course is the creation of a grant proposal.
The assessment for this course will be the construction of a grant proposal that targets a current area of developmental, behavioral, or diagnostic need for
children or adolescents in your community. The final project represents an authentic demonstration of competency, because it requires you to apply concepts
from across the child and adolescent curriculum to compose an original grant proposal for a theoretically supported, age-specific, and effective intervention
program. Terms commonly used in grant proposals include problem identification, prevalence, assessment of resources, impact of the problem, and
implementation plan. The meaning of these grant terms is revealed in the critical elements listed in the prompt, in which you will be asked to devise a grant
proposal that one would submit in the field of psychology. Grant proposals could be submitted for funding for research, training, institutional upgrades,
nonprofit center grants, funding opportunities, grants for children’s programs, or grants for specific outreach programs such as engaging underrepresented
cultures. The purpose of this task is to assess your understanding of concepts from across the child and adolescent curriculum.
Some real-world examples of grant proposal ideas have included:
School/Educational Setting
Orchard Middle School has over 50 at-risk students with a reading performance that directly affects their overall self-esteem and negative behavior
issues. The school submitted a grant proposal to support development of a program to help all students with poor reading skills learn to read at grade
level and increase their reading speed, comprehension, and reading attention span and overall sense of worth, esteem, and achievement. Studies have
shown those who do better in school, fare better with stable mental health.
Outpatient Mental Health
The Open Arms Family Center requested a grant in the amount of $250,000 to contribute to the start-up funds for a family homeless shelter and mental
health services. As an innovative, all-inclusive shelter program, the center aimed to provide for 10 families with children under the age of five who are
experiencing homelessness. The center is committed to its mission of decreasing the overall number of homeless families in the Metro Boston area as
well as working to break the cycle of homelessness.
Community Outreach
The purpose of Healthy Tomorrows is to stimulate innovative community-based programs that employ prevention strategies to promote access to
health care for children and their families nationwide. HTPCP funding supports direct-service projects, not research projects. Healthy Tomorrows is
designed to support family-centered initiatives that implement innovative approaches for focusing resources to promote community; define preventive
child health and ...
1. Potential Evaluation Plans
Objective 1: Strengthen current, and develop new, relationships with nonprofit agencies seeking
technical assistance and/or consultation (local, regional, and global).
Comparison pretest/posttest design:
Does the school feel there are good relationships?
Do the nonprofits?
Based upon that data, we can evaluate current relationships for strength before creating any new
ones. Then later, we reevaluate to see if relationships have improved.
Objective 2: Support the current inter-professional and community collaboration occurring, and
identify new opportunities for inter-professional and community collaboration research and
projects (local, regional, and global).
A potential evaluation that could cover both objectives 1 and 2 would be the following:
Trend design evaluation: Say we do an intervention such as improve multiculturalism through
consultation at a nonprofit. This would include bilingual skills, cultural sensitivity/competency,
and the overall satisfaction of Hispanic/Latino clients. Over time, ask clients if they feel the
consultation helped.
Another potential evaluation to address both objectives 1 and 2 would be to do a need assessment
on the community to determine what issues should be focused on. Based upon this data, an
intervention would be designed with the collaboration of local nonprofits.
Objective 3: Act as a unique field placement site for at least 2 social work students and engage
the efforts of one graduate assistant.
Design a cohort study of MSW students, asking them on past field placements. Did they like
them or not? Then, when students become interns at the center, ask them again. Compare and
contrast the findings.
2. Objective 4: Using the center as a means of student recruitment into the MSW program.
To address this objective, create a study based upon the Interrupted time-series design. Pretest
potential students prior to the center publishing works online. Due to recruitment being affected
by many various factors, make sure to get a baseline. (The data from the MSW differentials
report could be incorporated.) Begin publishing the center works and then posttest at various
times to see if this is affecting levels of student recruitment.