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Colorado LINK: Teen suicide prevention initiative evaluation report
URL: http://cotr.vermilion.com/attachments/0000/2962/ColoradoLINKSummaryReport.pdf
This 14 page summary highlights findings from the OMNI Institute's independent evaluation of Colorado LINK, an effort to reduce teen suicide at two large Denver public high schools and at Urban Peak, a shelter for homeless youth. It is a targeted initiative that included screening.
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Effects of the Vermont mental health and substance abuse parity law
URL: http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/PDFs/vtparity.pdf
Vermont implemented the Nation’s most comprehensive parity law in 1998, extending equality of health insurance coverage to both mental health and substance abuse services. This evaluation includes an implementation case study, an employer survey, and an analysis of health plan claims/encounter data. Much of the analysis focuses on the experiences of two health plans—Kaiser/Community Health Plan and Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Vermont, which covered 80 percent of the privately insured state population at the time.
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Evaluate the Initiative
URL: http://ctb.ku.edu/tools/evaluateinitiative/index.jsp
Part of the University of Kansas's Community Toolbox. This part of the toolbox provides a framework and supports for conducting a program evaluation. There are outlines, how-to materials, and links to other resources about evaluation.
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Evaluating the effectiveness of Gatekeeper Training: Using logic models to guide implementation and evaluation
URL: http://www.sprc.org/grantees/campus/PDF/EvaluatingEffectivenessGatekeeperTraining-Handout.pdf
Campus Suicide Prevention Grantee Technical Assistance Meeting. January 17-19, 2007, Gaithersburg, MD. Describes logic models as a systematic and visual way to present relationships among the existing resources, the activities of the program, and the planned changes or result.
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Evaluation resources
URL: http://www.sprc.org/library/evalresources.pdf
A list of resources related to program evaluation. The list includes book titles, online courses, toolkits, and online evaluator locators.
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Evaluation Toolkit
URL: http://www.wkkf.org/default.aspx?tabid=75&CID=281&NID=61&LanguageID=0
This toolkit was originally created to provide Kellogg Foundation grantees with information resources for undertaking the evaluation process with an external evaluator. However, the toolkit is also useful for anyone who is trying to do an evaluation. The kit includes sections on evaluation approaches, questions, budgeting, personnel management, and links to more resources about evaluation.
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Evaluation’s role in supporting initiative sustainability
URL: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/urbanpoverty/Urban%20Seminars/December2002/Weiss.pdf
This paper offers ideas for the roles that evaluation can play in helping foundations ensure that a discussion about sustainability is started early enough and maintained throughout an initiative.
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Framework for program evaluation in public health
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr4811a1.htm
Published as: Morbidity and mortality weekly report : recommendations and reports : MMWR / Centers for Disease Control. September 17, 1999 / 48(RR11);1-40. This CDC report presents a framework for understanding program evaluation and facilitating integration of evaluation throughout the public health system.
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Getting to outcomes 2004: Promoting Accountability Through Methods and Tools for Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation
URL: http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR101/
Incorporating traditional evaluation, empowerment evaluation, results-based accountability, and continuous quality improvement, this manual's ten-step process enhances practitioners' substance abuse prevention skills while empowering them to plan, implement, and evaluate their own programs. The manual's text and worksheets address needs and resources assessment; goals and objectives; choosing programs; ensuring program "fit"; capacity, planning, process, and outcome evaluation; continuous quality improvement; and sustainability.
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Hotline evaluation and linkage project: Category II
URL: http://www.samhsa.gov/Grants/2007/SummaryGould_Kalafat.pdf
The goals of this project were to: evaluate the immediate outcomes of calls to Telephone Crisis Services (TCS) by callers who are either suicidal or were experiencing other nonsuicidal crises; evaluate the intermediate outcomes for suicidal and nonsuicidal crisis calls; and evaluate the community context of TCS.
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How to select a program evaluator
URL: http://www.edc.org/hec/pubs/prev-updates/prog-eval.pdf
Campus-based prevention coordinators are under increasing pressure to evaluate their alcohol and other drug (AOD) and violence prevention programs. The reason boils down to a single word: accountability. This 3-page flyer describes the role of evaluation in program planning and implementation; skills, expertise, qualifications, and experience to look for when seeking an evaluator; incentives for the evaluator; questions to ask when considering an evaluator; and how to network to find the right evaluator. The flyer also describes five publications available through the Higher Education Center that can provide an introduction to evaluation basics.
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Suicide prevention: Prevention effectiveness and evaluation
URL: http://www.sprc.org/library/prevtoolkit.pdf
This booklet explains important prevention and evaluation concepts in the context of suicide prevention. It is designed for prevention program managers and staff to facilitate a common understanding and language with prevention and evaluation specialists.
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