Evaluation of Community Coalitions
Marycarmen
you may be able to help.
I am particularly interested in tools that you have found to work well
when evaluation community coalitions.
We currently track attendance over time for members, short feedback
forms from members at each meeting and more in depth member interviews
thoughout the year.
We would like to further our evaluation efforts.
I appreciate any/all help.
Thank you
Marycarmen Kunicki, M.A.
Evalutor
REACH US
Center of Excellence in the Elimination of Disparities
Boston Public Health Commission
1010 Massachusetts Avenue, 2nd Floor
Boston, MA 02118
617-534-2622
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Rivera, Mark (CDC/CCHP/NCCDPHP)
I can't recommend any of these in particular but hope they may provide
one starting point.
Good luck,
Mark
Mark Rivera
Health Scientist
REACH-US
CDC/NCCDPHP/DACH
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Atlanta, GA 30341
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Fax: 770.488.5974
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Marycarmen Kunicki
Michael Lieber
same stuff. She might be of some help.
Jacqueline Tran
We at OCAPICA, in California have done some social network analysis to look at the strength of relationships among our collaborative and links to the resources for change (reflective in the socio-ecological model).
jackie
Jacqueline H. Tran, MPH
Director, Center of Excellence to Eliminate Disparities (CEED) in Breast and Cervical Cancer among Asian and Pacific Islander Women
Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance (OCAPICA)
12900 Garden Grove Blvd., Suite 214A
Garden Grove, CA 92843
Telephone: 714-636-9095
Facsimile: 714-636-8828
Email: jt...@ocapica.org
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Michael Lieber
particularly weak relations, do those numbers generate questions that
you need to ask of those organizations? What I'm asking is, does the
network analysis point you to qualitative data that you have to
collect? If so, can you give an example or two?
Jacqueline Tran
Social network analysis is still very new for us so we are learning as
we go along. However, we did find interest in areas of weak relations
and trying to understand the unilateral or bidirectional relationships
that may or may not exist. At this point we are just beginning to engage
in this further discussion and analysis of what do these ties mean and
represent (based on what and who we asked) and how, if in any way, might
working as a collaborative strengthen or change such ties. In short
though there is qualitative data that you will want to collect and
engage in further discussion with partners depending on what
relationships you are looking at. Sorry I am not more helpful at this
time.
But for example in some of work, community partners want to have
stronger ties to researchers in academic settings, if the ties appear
weak, we ask ourselves about the opportunities for these two "groups" to
interact and engage, opportunities for them to create a relationship and
then engage in discussions about how might such opportunities present
themselves via work with the collaborative if we see the collaborative
as a tool for helping to strengthen these relationships over time. We
also have to examine what questions we asked and how that elicited the
responses we received that might impact the strengths of relationships.
Does that make any sense?
Jacqueline H. Tran, MPH
Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance (OCAPICA)
Michael Lieber
>
> Hi Michael,
> Social network analysis is still very new for us so we are learning as
> we go along. However, we did find interest in areas of weak relations
> and trying to understand the unilateral or bidirectional relationships
> that may or may not exist. At this point we are just beginning to engage
> in this further discussion and analysis of what do these ties mean and
> represent (based on what and who we asked) and how, if in any way, might
> working as a collaborative strengthen or change such ties. In short
> though there is qualitative data that you will want to collect and
> engage in further discussion with partners depending on what
> relationships you are looking at. Sorry I am not more helpful at this
> time.
> But for example in some of work, community partners want to have
> stronger ties to researchers in academic settings, if the ties appear
> weak, we ask ourselves about the opportunities for these two "groups" to
> interact and engage, opportunities for them to create a relationship and
> then engage in discussions about how might such opportunities present
> themselves via work with the collaborative if we see the collaborative
> as a tool for helping to strengthen these relationships over time.
Okay, I think I understand, but let me pin down the example. You see
a set of numbers in your data tat show weak links between at least
some community organizations and university researchers. But the CBO
folks are saying (on a survey?) that they want stronger links, which
leads in turn to thinking about the opportunities for stronger
relationships. I'm sure I'm oversimplifying, but is that the pattern
you're describing?
We
> also have to examine what questions we asked and how that elicited the
> responses we received that might impact the strengths of relationships.
Wow! What a great question--and one that researchers so rarely ask.
You may be new to network analysis, but I'd say that you have some
fire power there. Have you figured out a way to answer this question?
This would be VERY important to share with colleagues--how to build
recursive loops into your process of data collection. I cannot begin
to tell you how few researchers are this savvy about how they know
what they know. This is cutting edge.
I would offer only a small suggestion, based on my experience with
university-community collaboratives. I would want to know what the
CBO folks think that researchers could do for them. The answer to
that one would tell you if the relationship they're looking for is
one-shot (like drop-off daycare) or a longer term series of projects.