Evaluating the Quality of State Partnerships
- Jan Jernigan, Program Manager, Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, Northrop Grumman (moderator)
- Frances Butterfoss, Professor, Health Promotion/Disease Prevention, Center for Pediatric Research, Eastern Virginia Medical School
- Namvar Zohoori, EPI Branch Chief, State Chronic Disease Epidemiologist, Arkansas Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Health
Session Objective
To increase states’ ability to conduct an evaluation of the state partnership
Supporting Skills and Knowledge
- Develop goals for assessing the effectiveness and productivity of the state partnership
- Identify the reasons for evaluating the partnership
- Describe various methods for partnership evaluation
- Identify partnership assessment tools
Activity
Each participant will identify a method(s) and tool(s) for assessing their partnership at three levels – process, program and outcome evaluation
Session Summary
This session will focus on evaluation methods to evaluate the commitment, productivity and impact of HDSP partnerships and their workgroups. Participants will be asked to consider evaluation as occurring at three different levels: evaluation of the partnership’s structure, function and productivity; its program, and its impact on improving health status and community change outcomes. Participants will be introduced to various data collection methods, ways to improve response rates, and how to present results to partnership members and the community. Various evaluation tools will be highlighted. Arkansas will present the process, findings and lessons learned from a recent evaluation of their state level partnership.
Resources
- Community Tool Box
http://ctb.ku.edu
- National Science Foundation, User-friendly Handbook for Mixed-method Evaluations. (1997).
http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/EHR/REC/pubs/NSF97-153/start.htm
- American Evaluation Association
http://www.eval.org/
- CDC Evaluation Working Group
http://www.cdc.gov/eval/resources.htm
- Capwell, E, Butterfoss, FD, Francisco, V. Why Evaluate? Health Promotion Practice, 1(1), 15-20, 2000.
- Francisco, V, Capwell, E, Butterfoss, FD. Getting off to a good start with your evaluation. Health Promotion Practice, 1(2), 126-131, 2000.
- Butterfoss FD, Francisco V, Capwell E. Choosing effective evaluation methods. Health Promotion Practice, 1(4): 307-313, 2000.
- Butterfoss FD, Francisco, V, Capwell, E. Key issues in evaluation: Quantitative methods and research design. Health Promotion Practice, 2(1):20-23, 2001.
- Butterfoss FD, Francisco V, Capwell E. Stakeholder participation in evaluation. Health Promotion Practice, 2(2):114-119, 2001.
- Francisco VT, Butterfoss FD. How do we know if we are making a difference with our program or community initiative? Health Promotion Practice, 4(4):367-370, 2003.
- Butterfoss FD and Francisco VT. Evaluating community partnerships and coalitions with practitioners in mind. Health Promotion Practice, 5(2):108-114, 2004.
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