In recent years, the role of evaluators in the not-for-profit sector has changed. Increased delivery of social services, government initiatives and associated demands for reporting and accountability have created the need for nonprofits to build internal capacity for program evaluation. As internal evaluators, we are faced with the challenges of external and internal demands for evaluation data and results
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In this poster, we share a new program design and evaluation that engaged five organizations to support parents and their children within a housing project, focused on collective positive outcomes for families. While preschool-aged children received literacy tutoring from an AmeriCorps program, parents participated in parenting education workshops and classes on nutrition, wellness, and exercise. Parents also used a new mobile app designed to connect them to local community resources and to track parenting strategies they learned and other activities in between sessions for reward points. Our mixed-methods evaluation design included data from parent surveys, a measure of children’s literacy development, and the app to explore outcomes and see which activities and learning parents used
Collaborative Designs to Assess Holistic Support for Families-AEA 2016 Poster.pdf