Evaluation and Needs Assessments

I offer evaluation services for programs and initiatives of any size or type. One of SWA's strengths is that I have a number of collaborators to call on to expand my team or add specific evaluation or content expertise or knowledge. Evaluation projects I've have completed range from a single program for a small organization to a large-scale, multi-site, complex, national systems change initiative. 

Evaluation services include:

• Working with you to plan your evaluation using tools such as Theory of Change, logic models, and comprehensive evaluation plans.
• Providing training and coaching to build your capacity for evaluation.
• Measurement tool and methods development.
• Data management. 
• Data analysis and reporting.
• Full scale evaluation services where I will work with you to do the entire evaluation.

I offer needs assessment services for truly participative, collaborative needs assessments. I collaborate with needs assessment teams (including community members) to develop the scope of the project, design the data collection protocols and tools, gather data, conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses and synthesize results, and prepare reports that are designed to be used. I'm skilled with all types of data collection processes such as surveys, focus groups, appreciative inquiry, facilitated discussions, community listening sessions, key informant interviews, and using existing quantitative data from a variety of sources.  Some needs assessments I have partnered to complete are:

• Dallas County Ryan White Needs Assessment
• Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Needs Assessment
• An Assessment of Police Officer Needs to More Effectively Work with Domestic Violence Calls