Evaluation for Improvement: A Seven-Step Empowerment Evaluation Approach for Violence Prevention

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2009

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control of the Centers

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This manual is designed to help violence prevention organizations hire an empowerment evaluator who will assist them in building their evaluation capacity through a learn-by-doing process of evaluating their own strategies. It is for state and local leaders and staff members of organizations, coalitions, government agencies, and/or partnerships working to prevent sexual violence, intimate partner violence, youth violence, suicide, and/or child maltreatment. Some parts of the manual may also be useful to empowerment evaluators who work with these organizations. The manual discusses seven steps an organization might take to hire an empowerment evaluator: 1. Preparing for the hiring process 2. Writing a job announcement 3. Finding potential empowerment evaluators 4. Assessing the candidates 5. Writing an evaluation contract 6. Building an effective relationship with your evaluator 7. Assessing and sustaining the evaluation

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Best Practices-Prevention

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