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Evaluating with Perspective:

This article discusses the importance of community-based participatory research in program evaluation, highlighting the need for equitable involvement of all stakeholders and the integration of community knowledge to improve program outcomes. It provides guidance on engaging stakeholders, describing the program, designing the evaluation, gathering credible evidence, justifying conclusions, and ensuring use and sharing of lessons learned. The article also explores the role of funding in community-based programs and demonstrates the outcomes of intentional community participation.

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Evaluating with Perspective:

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  1. Evaluating with Perspective: Mobilizing Community Participation in Program Evaluation …its not too late!

  2. Community Based Participatory Research • Equitably involves all members (community members, organizational representatives, and programmers and researchers) in all aspects of the program initiative; (assessment, program development, implementation, evaluation, dissemination, funding. • Enables all partners to contribute their expertise, with shared responsibility and ownership; • Integrates the knowledge gained with interventions to improve the health and well-being of community members.

  3. Community members have an extensive set of skills, strengths and resources which can be harnessed to address the social determinants of health and to promote good program outcomes.

  4. Evaluation?(CDC Evaluation Workgroup) • Engage stakeholders • Describe the program • Focus the evaluation design • Gather credible evidence • Justify conclusions • Ensure use and share lessons learned

  5. Unconcerned Interested Invested Impacted Targeted Who are the stakeholders?Modified from CBPR Toolkit (Cassandra Ritas)

  6. Engage Stakeholders • Those who are involved with the development of the program • Those affected by the program • Users of the information

  7. CBPR transitions people from being “affected” by the program to people who are “involved” with the program AND “users” of the data.

  8. Community Based Participatory Evaluation:Sharing Power and Privilege • Bi-directional Education/training • Sharing culture relevance • Giving back to the community • Navigating the “system” • Confidence in “back-up” support

  9. Describe Program(relative to Community Based Participatory Evaluation) • Discuss need for evaluation • Understand expectations • Clearly define Activities/Resources • Discuss Stages of Development • Rely on Community Context • Who defines “community”? • Develop a evaluation logic model

  10. Evaluation Design • Purpose • Discuss who are Users of this information • Discuss Uses for the evaluation • Address questions (what we want to know) about the evaluation • Ex. Who defines “trauma” and how does it get measured? • Identify potential methods/ sampling

  11. Gather credible evidence • Identify Indicators/Standards • Identify sources of data collection (sampling methods) • Adapted “Western-based” tools? • Collect quality data • Identify effect size • Logistics in collection (ex. times, places, literacy levels)

  12. Train the community for data collection

  13. Interview target and affected communities

  14. Justify Conclusions (based on evidence) • Previous standards, programs… • Analysis/Synthesis • Interpretation • Judgment/Significance • Recommendations

  15. Dissemination of results • Include community in decision-making • Community members to present findings/outcomes to broader community (those impacted/invested/interested) • discuss results with policy makers/funders • present at conferences

  16. Funding • Identifying funding sources • Including community in the next RFP • Speaking on behalf of the program at foundations, universities, other “interested” non-profits or for profit organizations.

  17. What are funders looking for in Community Based Programs? • Did the impetus for the programming come from the community? • • Is attention given to barriers to participation, with consideration of those who have been underrepresented in the past? • • Can the research facilitate collaboration between community participants and resources external to the community? • • Do community participants benefit from the research outcomes? • • Is there attention to or an explicit agreement between researchers and community participants with respect to ownership and dissemination of the research findings? • Community-Based Participatory Research: • Implications for Public Health Funding • Minkler, Blackwell, Thompson and Tamir. (2003)

  18. How do you demonstrate Outcomes for Community Based Participatory Programs? • Show demonstrated, measurable outcomes of intentional, directed community participation • Are new community structures or problem-solving mechanisms in place as a result of the project? • Have new leaders emerged? • Is there evidence of a deeper sense of community ownership or civic participation? Community-Based Participatory Research: Implications for Public Health Funding Minkler, Blackwell, Thompson and Tamir. (2003)

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