SPF SIG CrossSite Evaluation

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SPF SIGCross-Site Evaluation

• Bob Levy
• September 25, 2007

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What is Cross-Site Evaluation?

• Cross-Site refers to
• Required evaluation activities of SPF-SIG
  activities for all communities that have received
  SPF-SIG funding.
• Not just Indiana.

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How is the Cross-Site Evaluation conducted?

• On-line web-based surveys
• Two Community Level Instruments (CLI)
• Community Partners
• Intervention Strategies

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What does the Community Partners instrument ask?

• Questions about community activities in
  (surprise, surprise)
• Needs assessment
• Capacity building
• Strategic planning
• Implementation
• Evaluation

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What does the Intervention Strategies Instrument
ask?

• Questions about
• Issues of prevention program selection
• Issues about implementation
• Separate survey completed for each separate
  intervention

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What is the timeline and submission process?

• Each funded community completes on a semi-annual
  basis
• Each CLI collection covers 6 months of activities
• Period July 1December 31, due to feds February
  15
• Period January 1June 30, due to feds August 15

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Timeline (cont)

• Post December 31 and June 30
• 4 weeks community to complete and send to state
  evaluators
• 1 week state evaluators to review CLI and make
  comments back to community
• 1 week community to
• Address state evaluators comments
• Submit finalized CLI to MayaTech

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Who is responsible for completing the CLI?

• Funded communities with input from
• Project director
• Local evaluator
• Intervention delivery staff
• And, of course, others as necessary

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What materials, as appropriate, should be on hand
to complete the CLI?

• Budgets
• Results of needs/resource assessments
• Strategic plans
• Meeting minutes
• Memoranda of understanding
• Intervention implementation materials (curricula,
  programs, etc.)
• Evaluation plans, findings, reports
• Policies regarding cultural competence

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How will the data be used?

• This is a federally mandated evaluation, so lets
  assume that the feds will use it.
• State-level evaluators will use it to
• help monitor the progress of the local
  communities, and
• to ensure that, as necessary, mid course
  corrections are made to increase the likelihood
  of success
• Local-level evaluators will use it for the same
  reasons as the state-level evaluators

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So what do these instruments look like?

• Web-based
• After the first completion, some of the
  information will automatically complete
• You dont have to complete it all at once
• The CLI has about 300 questions but only
  questions with regard to completed activities
  need to be completed

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