Training Overview

Moving Up the Scale—Service To Science: Strengthening and
Demonstrating Your Program’s Evidence Based Workshop

Are you seeking to demonstrate the effectiveness of your innovative program to your community and your funders? This workshop will review the elements of effective program development to assure that you are on the road to effectiveness and are documenting all your successes. The importance of program theory will be discussed and participants will receive coaching in logic model development and developing an evaluation plan specific to their program. SAMHSA’s National Registry of Effective Programs and Policies draft review criteria will be discussed as examples of elements for strengthening program and evaluation planning.

Target Audience:
Developers of innovative prevention programs, policies, and practices.
 
Training Objectives:
This workshop will cover:
  1. Evidence needed to demonstrate program effectiveness.
  2. Elements of effective program planning to achieve and demonstrate outcomes.
  3. Developing a programmatic theory of change.
  4. Developing a logic model to guide implementation and evaluation.
  5. Developing a programmatic evaluation plan.
  6. SAMHSA’s National Registry of Effective Programs and Policies review criteria.
  7. Questions related to field program specific issues.
Format:
Lecture/Presentation with discussion and/or group work and one-on-one coaching.
 
Number of Participants:
20-25
 
Time Frame:
1 day

 

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