Public health programs are increasingly being asked to demonstrate their value, impact, and reach.
Is your program ready for an evaluation to answer these tough questions? NWCPHP’s new learning opportunity can help.
The newly revised Fundamentals of Program Evaluation course is now available for leaders and managers working in a wide variety of program areas to ensure they are planning for success. From behavioral health to injury prevention, from restaurant inspections to workforce planning, this course has what you need.
Drawn from NWCPHP’s award-winning Public Health Management Certificate materials, this short course has been adapted for staff specializing in program or project management but lacking in time to join the year-long certificate program.
It is also specifically designed to support busy teams and groups in the same organization or those collaborating on a project or program who want to learn together for even greater impact.
The highly-engaging material is designed to be delivered over eight 90-minute sessions or approximately 12 hours. The dates and times can be customized to meet your office environment and learning needs.
The course begins by helping you ask good questions about your work to lay the foundation for deeper examination. Each session then builds on the next to help you develop a comprehensive plan with proven results.
The material emphasizes helpful steps and tools to use throughout the program planning, implementation, and data gathering steps, as well as how to communicate your results. The accompanying workbook will help you record your progress and allow you to put all your learning immediately into action after the final session.
Struggling with logic models or selecting the best indicators? No problem. This course will help you determine the appropriate goals, inputs, and outcomes to make sure you’re meeting your purpose.
Participants will also explore how to better engage partners and other collaborators in their work and how to think critically about those served or are most affected by the program activities.
You may be conducting an evaluation to help secure funding, looking for ways to improve a particular program component, or testing the effectiveness of the overall program. In any of these, the Fundamentals of Program Evaluation course can support your work.
"Solid program planning and evaluation are the foundation upon which effective public health programs are built. We ’re excited to offer this course in a new format to support that work and give managers the tools to measure success and drive meaningful change."
You know your work is meaningful, now measure it. Contact Christine Ector to learn more about Fundamentals of Program Evaluation and how to bring this unique learning opportunity to your organization or team.
