Program Resources

GUIDES: EVALUATING YOUR COMMUNITY-BASED PROGRAM
This is a two-part guide to program evaluation for pediatricians and others implementing community-based health initiatives.

Part I: Designing Your Evaluation

• Workbook: This guide, in workbook format, reviews strategies for setting measurable objectives, identifying realistic outcomes, and developing logic models for health initiatives.
• Recording: This audio presentation guides Healthy Tomorrows grantees and others implementing community-based health initiatives through logic model development and evaluation planning. The recording provides two logic model examples to illustrate the concepts. (Duration: 10 minutes)
  

Part II: Putting Your Evaluation Plan to Work

• Workbook: The follow up publication to Part I. This guide takes the evaluation plan from the planning to the implementation stage and will assist in how to measure, collect, analyze, and present data meaningfully.
• Recording 1: Part 1 of this recording will focus on effective documentation to evaluate your program. (Duration: 25 minutes)
• Recording 2: Part 2 of this recording will focus on analyzing your information simply and meaningfully. (Duration: 18 minutes)

LESSONS LEARNED

• The Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program: Highlights and Lessons Learned From the National Evaluation
  This report presents an overview of the major findings from the Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children National Evaluation Project conducted by the American Academy of Pediatrics between 2003 and 2005.
• Evaluation of Community-Based Health Projects: The Healthy Tomorrows Experience
  This study was published in Pediatrics and examines community-based programs and experience of evaluation, both in terms of capacity and benefits to the program.
• Healthy Tomorrows Sustainability Tip Sheet
  This informational sheet has been compiled by AAP Healthy Tomorrows staff. It takes lessons learned by Healthy Tomorrows projects to provide helpful tips to increase the sustainability of your project.
  

MCHB PERFORMANCE MEASURES

• National performance measures were developed and approved by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) for annual reporting by all MCHB grantees. A Performance Measure describes a specific maternal and child health need that, when successfully addressed, can lead to better health outcomes.
  

TRAINING MEETINGS

• Bi-annual meetings are held with HTPCP grantees to offer training focused on maternal and child health and opportunities to network. The 2011 training meeting agenda and presentations can be found here.