Description:

This workshop will provide an overview of what evaluation is and what it can do for you and your programs. The focus will be on building a strong evaluation foundation to gather and, most importantly, use information to improve programming efforts. Many of the examples will focus on community-based programs and this training is appropriate for community-based organizations as well as researchers implementing programmatic interventions in community settings. Many learnings can be applied to internal, organizational programming efforts as well. Topics will include the difference between evaluation and research, how evaluation can benefit your program, methods for collecting and using evaluation data, and involving stakeholders in evaluation activities.

This training is co-hosted by Northwestern's Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities (ARCC) and Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics. 

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We're working to ensure greater accessibility. This session will have closed captioning provided by ACS Captions. Thanks to ARCC Steering Committee member Access Living for guidance.

This session is part of an evaluation training series. Workshops will be offered monthly. The next session will be Evaluation & Equity on July 31. 

This training will be presented by Sarah Welch, Director of Evaluation Research in Northwestern's Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics. Sarah and her team provide high quality, state of the art evaluation services to Northwestern faculty, staff, and community organizations working on public health research, policy, and programming efforts. The goal of this program is to support the evaluation of these efforts and promote the use of data for decision-making to strengthen these efforts and their ability to improve and protect health in Chicago and beyond.