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Article Archive: Outcome and Program Evaluations
Provides an overview of the process used to develop tools to measure the impact of civic engagement practices in the human services field. Also presents the Civic Engagement Measurement System, which consists of an inter-related set of tools that represent a promising new approach to the measurement of outcomes and impacts in civic engagement.
Details progress toward the three goals of the Alliance for Children and Families’ New Age of Aging initiative: to increase the number of professionals trained in gerontology and aging issues, reframe human service organizations’ perceptions of aging services, and move Alliance member organizations to the next appropriate level of capacity and skill in serving older adults.
Offers insight into the impact of the Ways to Work program on clients’ credit scores. Addresses changes in borrowers’ credit scores after participating in the program, how the year in which the borrower received the loan impacted his or her credit score, and the difference in average change in credit scores of Ways to Work participants who did not default on their loans.
An evaluation of a national initiative intended to enhance the fundraising abilities of social service agencies.
Reports results from an evaluation of the Ways to Work auto loan program. Findings are based on interviews with a random sample of borrowers at 20 Ways to Work sites around the country. Study also assesses the validity of existing outcome measures as indices of program effectiveness.
Evaluation of a complex national initiative intended to recruit traditional social service agencies to a community organizing and community development agenda.
Traces the development of outcome measures for Ways to Work, a national auto loan program for low-income families. Study presents the indicators and instruments used at the local sites and reports preliminary results for one site.
Evaluation of an initiative that, as a solution to housing problems in Hawaii, supports low-income families in building their own homes.
A discussion of internal and external validity issues in the evaluation of prevention programming. Examines these issues in the context of an evaluation of a program in Milwaukee-area schools intended to prevent HIV/AIDS.
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