Transcript Board Meeting Presentation (catchy title suggestions?)

H&AC Promising Strategies:
Evaluation & Technical Assistance
NIKOLE LOBB DOUGHERTY, MA
JESSI LAROSE, MPH
OCTOBER 2011
Presentation Overview
 Overview of H&AC Evaluation Team and Goals
 The H&AC Initiative Evaluation
 Evaluation Technical Assistance
The H&AC Evaluation Team
Washington University
Saint Louis University
George Warren Brown School of Social
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Doug Luke, PhD
Work
School of Public Health
Nikole Lobb Dougherty,
MA
 Chris Robichaux, MS
 Tanya Montgomery, MPH
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Cheryl Kelly, PhD
Darcy Scharff, PhD
Jessi LaRose, MPH
Trina Ragain, MPH
Evaluation Team Goals
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Conduct a modest multi-site evaluation of the
H&AC Initiative
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Develop evaluation plan and logic model
Implement evaluation plan
2. Increase grantees’ evaluation capacity through
intensive technical assistance and training
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Work with grantees to develop individual evaluation plans
Work with grantees to implement evaluation plans
The H&AC Initiative Evaluation
Definition of Internal Program Evaluation
and the H&AC Evaluation
Internal Program Evaluation:
Evaluation conducted by each individual grantee
for their own program
H&AC Evaluation:
Evaluation of the entire H&AC initiative (i.e.,
across all grantees) conducted by the evaluation
team at Washington University and Saint Louis
University
H&AC Evaluation Focus
 Capacity of programs
 Reach of programs
 Partnerships
 Policy Change
 Built Environment Opportunities
 Promising Practices
 Sustainability
 Behavior Change
How will we collect data?
 Healthy & Active Programs and Policies Evaluation (HAPPE)
System
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Quantitative data collection
Monthly and quarterly data submission throughout all three years of
funding
Focuses on your activities (what, when, where and who), capacity, &
partnerships
 One-on-one interviews with program staff
 Qualitative data collection
 Conducted in the 1st and 3rd years of the project
 Focuses on lesson’s learned, capacity, collaborations
 Sustainability Assessment Survey
 Online survey
 Focuses on structures and processes related to likelihood of sustaining
project elements
The HAPPE System
Benefits of the Evaluation
H&AC Evaluation:
 Have a greater understanding of the impact of the H&AC
Initiative on Missouri
 Identification and dissemination of promising practices to
guide future obesity prevention efforts
Individual Program:
 Easy and organized access to your own data
 Ability to generate your own reports of your data
Preview of H&AC Evaluation Activities
November 2011 – January 2012
 Training on the HAPPE System/Logic Model
Development
Spring 2012
 Qualitative interviews with project representatives
Evaluation
Technical Assistance
Technical Assistance Goals
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To increase internal evaluation capacity
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To address evaluation needs of grantees
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To provide evaluation resources and networking
opportunities to grantees
What We Can Help With
 Evaluation plans (e.g., logic models, evaluation questions)
 Quantitative and qualitative instruments
 Data management and analysis
 Database development
 Reports and presentations
 Evaluation resources
 Networking opportunities with other evaluators
 Interim reports/contract reporting tool
Preview of TA activities
 Evaluation capacity online needs assessment
 November 2011 (a follow-up needs assessment will be
conducted in the fall of 2014)
 Site visits
 November 2011-January 2012
 Individualized technical assistance plans and program
logic model
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Based on needs assessment and first site visit
 Regular communication to assist with needs
 Conference calls, visits, emails
Contact Information
Technical Assistance Contacts
Jessi LaRose
Trina Ragain
[email protected]
314.977.8280
[email protected]
314.977.8189
Initiative Evaluation Contacts
Nikole Lobb Dougherty
Evaluation Coordinator
Chris Robichaux
HAPPE Coordinator
[email protected]
314.935.3741
[email protected]
314. 935.3648