Program Evaluation and Evaluating Community Engagement

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Program Evaluation and Evaluating Community Engagement163Chapter 7Program Evaluation and Evaluating Community EngagementMeryl Sufian, PhD (Chair), Jo Anne Grunbaum, EdD (Co-Chair), Tabia Henry Akintobi, PhD, MPH, Ann Dozier, PhD, Milton (Mickey) Eder, PhD, Shantrice Jones, MPH, Patricia Mullan, PhD, Charlene Raye Weir, RN, PhD, Sharrice White-Cooper, MPHBACKGROUNDA common theme through Chapters 1 6 was that Community Engagement develops over time and that its development is largely based on ongoing co-learning about how to enhance collaborations The Evaluation of commu-nity Engagement programs provides an opportunity to assess and enhance these collaborations Community members can be systematically engaged in assessing the quality of a Community -engaged initiative, measuring its outcomes, and identifying opportunities for improvement This chapter summarizes the central concepts in Program Evaluation rel-evant to Community Engagement programs, including definitions, categories, approaches.

The program evaluation process goes through four phases — planning, implementation, completion, and dissemination and reporting — that complement the phases of program development and implementation Each phase has unique issues, methods, and procedures In this section, each of the four phases is discussed

  Evaluation, Implementation