New Approaches to Evaluating Community Initiatives: Concepts, methods, and contexts

New Approaches to Evaluating Community Initiatives: Concepts, methods, and contexts
Author: Aspen Institute. Roundtable on Comprehensive Community Initiatives for Children and Families
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1995
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

The Roundtable on Comprehensive Community Initiatives for Children and Families is a forum in which persons involved in the current generation of community-based cross-systems reform efforts can engage in open and detailed discussion about the challenges they face and the lessons they are learning. This collection of papers aims to introduce some of the challenges facing CCI designers, funders, managers, and evaluators. It is not intended to be an exhaustive review of all of the problems associated with the design, implementation, or evaluation of innovative anti-poverty programs, nor does it present definitive solutions to current problems.

New Approaches to Evaluating Community Initiatives

New Approaches to Evaluating Community Initiatives
Author: James P. Connell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1995
Genre: Community development
ISBN:

This book offers a progress report on work accomplished over the last few years in comprehensive community initiatives (CCIs), a relatively new approach to community revitalization.

Rebuilding Community

Rebuilding Community
Author: Joan Smith
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2001-10-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1403919879

Our poorest urban neighbourhoods experience economic and social difficulties that uniquely affect the lives of those who live there. This volume examines the policies and initiatives now underway on both sides of the Atlantic to revitalize those areas. With contributors from the US, France and the UK the volume explains the nature of specific community building programmes and explores critical issues such as the role of partnerships and the importance of race and gender in urban regeneration.

Evaluating the Complex

Evaluating the Complex
Author: Kim Forss
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2017-07-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351376640

In the economic atmosphere following the crisis of 2008, not only have governments reacted by creating more complex policy initiatives, but they have also promised that all of these initiatives will be evaluated. Due to the complexity of many of the initiatives, the ways of evaluating are becoming equally complex. The book begins with a theoretical and conceptual explanation of the process and shows how this translates into the practice of evaluation. The chapters cover a wide variety of subjects, such as poverty, homelessness, smoking prevention, HIV/AIDS, and child labor. The use of case studies sheds light on the conceptual ideas at work in organizations addressing some of the world's largest and most varied problems. The evaluation process seeks a balance between order and chaos. The interaction of four elements—simplicity, inventiveness, flexibility, and specificity—allows complex patterns to emerge. The case studies illustrate this framework and provide a number of examples of practical management of complexity, in light of contingency theories of the evaluation process itself. These theories in turn match the complexity of evaluated policies, strategies, and programs. The evaluation process is examined for its impact on policy outcomes and choices.

Research Methods in Family Therapy

Research Methods in Family Therapy
Author: Douglas H. Sprenkle
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2005-06-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781572309609

Fully revised and updated, the second edition of this widely adopted text and professional reference reflects significant recent changes in the landscape of family therapy research. Leading contributors provide the current knowledge needed to design strong qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method studies; analyze the resulting data; and translate findings into improved practices and programs. Following a consistent format, user-friendly chapters thoroughly describe the various methodologies and illustrate their applications with helpful concrete examples. Among the ten entirely new chapters in the second edition is an invaluable research primer for beginning graduate students. Other new chapters cover action and participatory research methods, computer-aided qualitative data analysis, feminist autoethnography, performance methodology, task analysis, cutting-edge statistical models, and more.