That’s the good stuff
Just sharing a quick image from our good colleague, David Zimmerman at Mind. Cheers!
Using news as an evalution source
For our work in CDC-RISE, we are using all sorts of unobtrusive measures and data sources to understand conditions in the communities we are working with. This post over at our sister site, PubTrawlr, talks about how we looked at Health Equity stories in Missouri. Check it all out below.
Revisiting Elinor Ostrom
For ReSOLV, we’ve been discussing how this paper could be valuable in thinking through the different levels of readiness and readiness behaviors. The one thing that I really love is how we can think through the rules (both formal and informal) that govern different systems within a community. I ran through Elinor Ostrom in PubTrawlr…
The Purpose of a Community Assessment Tool: How We Use it In Various Projects
Community capacity building is hard. That is no secret. Oftentimes, community teams have a challenge just identifying both the strengths and their areas for growth. This is where a set of transformation tools come in. Over the previous 8 years, we’ve worked with a network of committed community change agents known as WE in the…
Just some pretty pictures
We just dialed up a pretty comprehensive evaluation with CDC and the RISE network. We plan on sharing a bunch of our learning as we go along, but until I can really sit down and write, here’s just a snapshot of one community’s assessment. More to come!
Community Psychology Topical Interest Group Business Meeting: Planning for the future
It’s been a busy year for the American Evaluation Association’s Community Psychology Topical Interest Group. Over the past few years, we have grown from just a small group of disconnected professionals to an established organization with, who are all committed to the same goal: Bringing community psychology values into our evaluation planning and implementation. In…
A brief social services story with no ending.
Hello from Denver. Our team is focused on our sister project, PubTrawlr, at the American Public Health Association conference. It’s been a great time, and we’ve met some really great and cool people. This story isn’t about that. It’s about the walk home to our hotel after dinner. While crossing the street, I noticed a…
Our black metal logo
Last year, we used an awesome Halloween logo designed by Neon_Cacti on Fiverr. With APHA coming up, along with some associated projects, I can’t be as silly this year. But, we still wanted to share with you this great work. Absolutely brutal. Happy Halloween Season, everyone!
The Brief Readiness Thinking Tool
As we get closer to our official launch of the Readiness Learning System, we wanted to promote the Brief Readiness Thinking Tool. This easy-to-use document helps your team deeply consider what issues may be helping or hindering your implementation project. Not only is it free, it’s totally open source. That means you’re free to modify…
New Home!
Oh hey! As a lot of people know, we focus on getting good ideas into practice. That takes many forms, from evaluation, to research, to training, to technical assistance, to consultation, to data analysis, to software engineering (really!) and many more. More of our outward faces communications these days have been run through our sister…
Updates coming (soonish)
So, since the last time I dove into this site, we’ve have a bunch of projects start, a bunch of projects stop, and a lot of fun in between. I’ll provide a more thorough overhaul of what we’re doing, who we’re doing it with, and what we hope to accomplish. In some general news, though,…
Slightly Changing Focus
Quick site update here. Many of the syntheses articles I’ve been putting together are going to be migrating over to PubTrawlr. They align better with PubTrawlr’s mission around use of scientific findings. The Dawn Chorus blog will be used for reflections, book reviews, and off-the-beaten path analyses that doesn’t really have a home there. So…
