Who we are:
Evaluators
Practitioners (e.g., program and project directors)
Academics
Applied Researchers
Social Scientists
Community and Political activists
Agents of social change
Participant – conceptualizers
Our Perspective:
Ecological (i.e., settings and individuals are interrelated)
Person – environment fit
Attention to issues of diversity and context
Social justice
Grounded in empiricism
Methodology acknowledges value - driven, research involving community members; quantitative, qualitative, and other innovative methods are embraced