Welcome to the HSE TIG website!
Updates:
- Next Meeting: Our next joint-TIG meeting with the Social Work TIG will re-start in August from our summer break! Stay tuned for updates and details.
- Conference Proposal Decisions: A few weeks ago, decisions hit the inboxes of those who submitted proposals. We have two requests:
-If your conference proposal was not accepted: please email humanservicestig@gmail.com to let us know if you'd like to host the session virtually as part of a future TIG meeting!
-If your conference proposal was accepted: please email humanservicestig@gmail.com with the title of your session and the stream so we can ensure to highlight it for our membership ahead of the conference.
- Human Services Evaluation AEA365 Blog Takeover: Back in June, we had 7 members of the HSE TIG publish blog posts on various topics around human services evaluation. We encourage you to read the blog posts! They're short and full of helpful tidbits for practical application. The blog posts may be accessed here.
- AEA Board of Directors 2026 Election: The election is well underway, and votes are due by Friday, August 14th. As AEA members, you should have received a ballot in your email inbox on July 1st from "AEA Ballot" to vote in the 2026 Board of Directors #elections. If you joined or renewed your AEA membership after July 1st, the message may have come on a different day. Please check your spam/junk/other folder or even your trash folder in case you accidentally deleted it. Your voice truly matters in selecting the future leaders of our organization! Voting only takes a few minutes and will help select a new President-Elect and three new Members-at-Large. Past elections have only yielded votes from <20% of the AEA's membership, which we know is not representative; let's all be part of the progress on this metric!
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Mission: The mission of the Human Services Evaluation (HSE) TIG of the American Evaluation Association is to improve the practice of evaluation within the human services field. TIG members seek to improve human services theory, practice, and capacity building through the development and application of state-of-the-art evaluation techniques.
Scope: The TIG focuses on the evaluation of the full range of human services programs and settings for individuals
families, and communities. Such programs and settings include, but are not limited to, those involving child welfare,
counseling, employment development, family development, physical and mental health, parent and family education,
and school-based services.
Activities: Typical activities of the HSE TIG include bi-monthly meetings, collaboration with other TIGs on issues relevant to human services evaluation, AEA365 Blog Takeovers, and representation at the annual AEA Evaluation conferences. This TIG emphasizes opportunities for networking and relationship building. All of these activities are designed to assist our members in strengthening their own evaluation practice(s), collaborating with colleagues, and advancing the field.
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