Welcome to Locating, Hiring, and Managing an Evaluator, an online workshop sponsored by Connecticut’s Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and CSAP’s Northeast Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT). This exciting new course is designed to provide you with the knowledge and skills you need to initiate the process of evaluating your program’s prevention activities. It is not meant to teach you how to conduct an evaluation on your own, but rather to help you think through key issues that will help make evaluation more feasible and useful.

As a participant in the event, you will have the opportunity to do the following:

• Explore reasons for conducting a thorough evaluation of prevention activities
• Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of participatory evaluation
• Learn ways to find and hire the right person to help you evaluate your program
• Learn how to work effectively with an evaluator
• Identify ways to reduce the costs of an evaluation
• Access additional evaluation resources

This course will also allow you to meet other practitioners in an innovative, online forum. You will participate in moderated Web-based discussions, where you can exchange ideas and learn from your colleagues in the field. You will also participate in online activities that let you immediately apply what you have learned.

Locating, Hiring, and Managing an Evaluator was developed in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Education's National Coordinator Training and Technical Assistance Center. It is the first in a series of courses developed by the Northeast CAPT to address issues related to program evaluation. For information on related courses, contact Melanie Adler at madler@edc.org.

To begin this online event, please proceed to Getting Started.