Research & Evaluation
The Central Massachusetts Center for Healthy Communities can assist you in developing evaluation skills to assess the effectiveness of your program. We can help you design and conduct a needs and resource assessment as well as process and outcome evaluations.
We specialize in collecting community data through Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) implementation in school settings. We can also help you gain skills and assist you in designing surveys (pre- and post-tests), conducting focus groups, and collecting and analyzing health statistics. Our staff is trained to use MassCHIP, the American Community Survey, and Arc GIS to help you make your case with data.
Please contact us to set up an appointment to determine how we can serve you best. We are here to provide you with the resources, technical assistance and training to produce measurable outcomes for your program.
Research & Evaluation Links: This page contains links to external websites that we believe you may find helpful however we are not responsible for the content or opinions expressed on these websites.
American Evaluation Association http://www.eval.org/
Coalition Member Assessment Tool - from Tom Wolff & Associates http://www.tomwolff.com/coalitionmemberassessment.htm
The Evaluation Exchange - at HFRP http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/eval.html
Evaluation: Tools and Resources - from the James Irvine Foundation http://www.irvine.org/evaluation/resources.shtml
Innovation Network http://www.innonet.org/
Measures for Community Research - from The Aspen Institute http://www.aspenmeasures.org/
Planning and Evaluation Resource Center (PERC) http://www.evaluationtools.org/
Online Evaluation Resource Library http://www.oerl.sri.com/
Work Group for Community Health and Development - at the University of Kansas http://communityhealth.ku.edu/
The Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy http://www.renniecenter.org/index.html
The Harvard Family Research Project http://www.hfrp.org/
The Institute for Quantitative Social Science http://www.iq.harvard.edu/
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