Center for Community Health and Evaluation: Approach and Expertise

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Evaluation approach

The Center for Community Health and Evaluation (CCHE) matches the unique features of each project with a combination of appropriate evaluation methods. Traditional methods of applied social science, such as natural experiments and quasi-experimental designs, are combined with participatory evaluation: gathering input from all stakeholders that contribute to an intervention's success and building sustainable capacity among program staff for monitoring and evaluating their own work.

Three principles guide CCHE's work:

• Collaboration: Working closely with funders, communities and organizations to conduct evaluations that all parties understand and endorse
• Formative feedback: Sharing findings with program stakeholders early and often so the results can be used to improve the program.
• Attention to intermediate outcomes: Emphasizing outcomes that demonstrate progress toward improvement in community health status.

Expertise

A national leader in the evaluation of large-scale programs to improve health, CCHE offers expertise in the assessment of efforts to build partnerships and collaboration, with special emphasis on at-risk populations and recruitment of community members as active participants.

Our capabilities include:

• Strategic planning and goal setting
• Legacy evaluation: assessing the long-term impact of community health investments
• Identification of indicators of progress and success
• Designing and implementing data collection for planning and evaluation, including:
  • Survey research
  • Focus groups
  • Key informant interviews
  • Participant observation
  • Gathering data from secondary sources

• Quantitative and qualitative data analysis
• Investigating policy trends
• Planning and organizing conferences and other events
• Communication of findings to varied audiences:
  • Traditional reports
  • Summaries and brief reports
  • White papers
  • Journal articles
  • Web-based reports
  • Audio-visual documentation

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