Empowerment and Participatory Evaluation of Community Interventions

Multiple Benefits

Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar, Gary Harper

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780789022080
• eBook ISBN: 9781317787334
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Program evaluations are more relevant when conducted by the people directly involved in the programs and members of the communities they serve. Learn how empowerment and participatory evaluation can help community programs deliver more effective services!

With this book, you'll examine theoretical models, empirical investigations, and case studies that highlight important aspects of empowerment and participatory evaluation in community programs. The first half of the book presents frameworks and tools for empowerment and participatory evaluation, with an emphasis on transferring skills and building capacity. The remaining chapters examine specific efforts to implement empowerment and participatory evaluation with a range of stakeholders, highlighting the ways in which community members collaborated with evaluators and were actively engaged in the evaluation process.

Covering various types of evaluations across a range of urgent social issues, this book offers practical steps for implementing evaluations and presents theoretical models as well as applied examples. The issues that Empowerment and Participatory Evaluation of Community Interventions addresses include:

• challenges faced by community-based organizations in conducting evaluations of their initiativesand solutions to those challenges, including the creation and implementation of an appropriate outcomes model
• ways to build capacity for participatory evaluation within community initiatives
• ways to promote the success and accountability of community programs
• how collaborative process evaluation can improve HIV prevention services
• evaluation techniques that illustrate the benefits of a collaborative approachwith a case study of the Conflict Resolution in Schools Programs
• a pilot study in which empowerment evaluation principles are used to evaluate the American Red Cross of Greater Chicago's Youth Leadership Training Series (a program designed to train youth volunteers)

Presenting important information on program evaluation, community-based interventions and community empowerment, empowerment/participatory evaluation, community psychology, collaborative partnerships, program improvement, utilization-focused evaluation, consultation, and more, Empowerment and Participatory Evaluation of Community Interventions is a resource that everyone involved in community psychology should have!

Index

Accountability systems

First Steps, 42-49

coordination, 47

organizational structure, 47

progress and lessons, 46

Action planning, community change, 30

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)

risk reduction model, 63

see also HIV prevention

Adolescent pregnancy, community initiatives, 30

African-Americans, HIV prevention, 65

American Red Cross

empowerment evaluation, 89

youth leadership training, 90

Aspen Roundtable (2002), 40

Audiotapes, collaborative process, 61

Behavioral surveys, 28

Brainstorming, outcomes model, 10

California, early childhood initiatives, 39

Capacity building

case examples, 25

community initiatives, 21-34

data interpretation, 30

Kansas models, 25

logic model, 26

participatory evaluation, 21-34

televised events, 25

Web site, 25

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 28

Chicago

American Red Cross, 90

empowerment evaluation, 90

HIV prevention, 56

youth leadership training, 90

Chronic Disease Coalition, outcomes model, 26

Collaborative process

benefits, 66

community relevance, 53

cultural appropriateness, 53

evaluation, 53, 55

HIV prevention, 53

Implementation, 60-62

outreach monitoring, 59

partnership development, 57

plan and methods, 58-62

program changes, 62-66

promotion, 59

skill inhancement, 58

theoretical foundations, 56

Collaborative programs

case study, 71-85

changes, 62-66

conflict resolution, 71

development phases, 75-82

lessons learned, 83-85

project overview, 74

Committee on Integrating the Science of Early Childhood Development (2000), 39

Community-based organ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Community-Based Approaches to Empowerment and Participatory Evaluation
• Implementing an Outcomes Model in the Participatory Evaluation of Community Initiatives
• Building Capacity for Participatory Evaluation Within Community Initiatives
• Promoting Program Success and Fulfilling Accountability Requirements in a Statewide Community-Based Initiative: Challenges, Progress, and Lessons Learned
• Collaborative Process Evaluation: Enhancing Community Relevance and Cultural Appropriateness in HIV Prevention
• Collaborative Program Development and Evaluation: A Case Study in Conflict Resolution Education
• Empowerment Evaluation of a Youth Leadership Training Program
• Index