Evaluating health and human service programs in community settings
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Evaluating health and human service programs in community settings
（New directions for program evaluation, No. 83）
Jossey-Bass, c1999
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Description
The key difference between community-based evaluation and other
types of evaluation lies in understanding and accommodating the
unique situations of communities, their leadership, their social
and political climates, and their perception of needs. This volume
of New Directions for Evaluation examines how to improve approaches
to evaluation in community organizations, emphasizing the need to
assess the fit between evaluators? skills and styles, and the
cultural reality of communities. The author--experienced evaluators
and community-based program leaders--describe choices about
evaluation practice that are available to the evaluator, the
program, and the community. They also present an effective
evaluation prescreening tool, which has been successfully used to
match evaluation plans with particular community program evaluation
needs, resources, and commitments.
This is the 83rd issue of the quarterly journal New
Directions for Evaluation.
Table of Contents
The Community as Client: Improving the Prospects for Useful
Evaluation Findings (J. Telfair & L. Leviton).
The Importance of a Discovery Capacity in Community-Based Health
and Human Service Program Evaluation (L. Leviton & R.
Schuh).
Evaluating Community-Based Health Programs That Seek to Increase
Community Capacity (E. Parker, et al.).
Improving the Prospects for a Successful Relationship Between
Community and Evaluator (J. Telfair).
The View from Main Street and the View from 40,000 Feet: Can a
National Evaluation Understand Local Communities? (L. Saxe & E.
Tighe).
The Process of Selling a Community Evaluation to a Community:
Cumberland County's Experience (R. Crago, et al.).
Framing the Evaluation of Health and Human Service Programs in
Community Settings: Assessing Progress (A. Wandersman).
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