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Related Resources: Evaluating Program Effectiveness
Related resources on evaluating program effectiveness.
FRIENDS Outcome Accountability Guide
National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention
Volume I (Concepts) of the FRIENDS guide offers an in-depth reference to the logic models that underlie outcome accountability. Volume II (Workbook & Instruments) walks readers through a step-by-step application of those concepts and provides suggested tools for measuring progress.
Healthy Families America Research Practice Network: A Unique Partnership to Integrate Prevention Science and Practice
Galano & Schellenbach (2007)
In Healthy Families America Initiative: Integrating Research, Theory, and Practice
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Examines the lessons learned from a research to practice network fostering communication among academic researchers, community-based evaluators, and practitioners to integrate science-based prevention practices into practice settings.
Healthy Families America Self-Assessment Tool 2007 (PDF - 411 KB)
Prevent Child Abuse America (2007)
Evaluates programs based on best practice standards that define the Healthy Families model on twelve critical elements and governance and administration. Identifies policies, procedures, and practices necessary for the program to implement.
The Program Manager's Guide to Evaluation: An Evaluation Handbook Series from the Administration on Children, Youth and Families
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1997 - 150 pages |
This manual provides an overview of the evaluation process, with special considerations for programs funded by the Administration for Children, Youth, and Families (ACYF). The text describes why evaluations are important and explains each step of the process, whether an outside evaluator is used or the evaluation is being conducted by in-house staff. Topics include: purpose, cost, types of evaluation teams, selecting and managing outside contractors, organizational preparation for the evaluation, evaluation plans, data collection, analysis, and reports. In general, program managers should determine a purpose for the evaluation, consider evaluation needs when designing the program, be an involved role ...
Key Steps in Outcome Management
Urban Institute (2003)
This guidebook covers the necessary steps for nonprofit organizations that wish to implement outcome management (also known as "managing for results"), and includes guidance on establishing an outcome-oriented measurement process and practices for using the information internally.
Practical Program Evaluation: Examples from Child Abuse Prevention
Ford, Gilbert, Pietrzak, Ramler, & Renner
A guide for program self-evaluation including how to plan an evaluation, select a research design, and collect and analyzing data.
Missouri Children's Trust Fund Evaluation Manual
Missouri Children's Trust Fund (1993)
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Recommends instruments and procedures for evaluating educational programs for children and adolescents, support and counseling services for children and adolescents, parent-family education, high-risk services, and other types of programs. Suggestions for ensuring the validity of the evaluation and utilization of results are discussed.
An Ounce of Prevention (PDF - 1830 KB)
Washington Council for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (2004)
Describes the Council's strategies to reduce child abuse and neglect through investment in effective community-based programs, such as home-visiting, parent education and support, and crisis nurseries.
Evaluating Child Abuse Prevention Programs: Issues in Child Abuse Prevention
Australian Institute of Family Studies (2000)
An overview of the current state of program evaluation as it is applied to the field of child abuse prevention, the extent to which empirical evaluation has been used, and the degree to which programs have been shown to be effective.
Evaluating Community-Based Initiatives Teleconference
American Academy of Pediatrics (2005)
Offers PowerPoint slides and audio files on evaluation research, a process for setting clear goals and objectives, ways to address significant evaluation challenges, and data collection and management techniques.
Service Delivery
Promising Practices Network
Resources for forming community partnerships and collaborations, service integration, program implementation, and evaluation.
Accountability Systems: Improving Results for Young Children (PDF - 2310 KB)
Finance Project (2002)
Key principles of effective accountability systems, the basic steps in developing an effective accountability system, and examples that illustrate a range of State and local accountability system approaches.
Managing for Outcomes
Child Welfare League of America
Basic guidance on program evaluation philosophies and procedures for human services managers.
Determining "What Works" in Social Programs and Social Policies: Toward a More Inclusive Knowledge Base
Brookings Institution
An arguement for more flexible forms of evaluation or assessment that require experts and practitioners to hypothesize the linkages between actions and outcomes, prioritize actions, identify interim indicators of success, and pay more attention to the attributes of programs and the institutional contexts that are essential to success.
Evaluating Community Programs and Initiatives
University of Kansas Community Tool Box
An introduction to evaluation, operations in evaluating community interventions, evaluating comprehensive community initiatives, and using evaluation to understand and improve an initiative. Also see the evaluation WorkStation.
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