Data Brown Bag – What Healthy Start Grantees Need to Know: Aggregate and Client Data

Grab your lunch and come listen to this brown bag webinar on monthly aggregate and client data requirements, for your Healthy Start program. The first half of the webinar will be presentation and the second half will be reserved for opportunities for Q/A.

Recommended Audience: All Healthy Start Grantees funded in 2019-2024

Program evaluation Project Management Project Scope

Special Initiative: Conversations with the Division of Healthy Start and Perinatal Services

This webinar will cover updates from the Division. The HS EPIC Center will provide an update to include a reminder of resources and initiatives. There will also be an opportunity to submit questions to the Healthy Start federal leadership.

Materials:

Program evaluation Project Scope Quality Improvement

Special Initiative: Conversations with the Division of Healthy Start and Perinatal Services

This webinar will cover updates from the Division. The HS EPIC Center will provide an update to include a reminder of resources and initiatives. There will also be an opportunity to submit questions to the Healthy Start federal leadership.

Webinar Materials:

 

Program evaluation Project Scope Quality Improvement

Conversations with the Division of Healthy Start and Perinatal Services

This webinar will cover updates from the Division, including the Healthy Start Monitoring and Evaluation Database (HSMED), 3Ps document, National Evaluation, MCH Journal supplement, 2016 Convention Committee Planning, and other important issues. JSI will provide an update on plans for the CHW training module, changes to the EPIC Center website, the Healthy Start CoIIN, and the new Community Workshops. There will also be an opportunity to submit questions to the Healthy Start federal leadership.
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Communication Community and Organizational Partnerships Community Engagement Program evaluation Quality Improvement Strategic Planning

Healthy Start Regional Meeting (MA, CT, NY)

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Father/Partner Involvement Program evaluation Shared Measurement

Healthy Start Regional Meeting (OH, PA, MI)

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Program evaluation Quality Improvement

Data Collection for Program Evaluation

The goal of this course is to teach you how to collect data effectively when evaluating your programs. The course is divided into several modules, located in the tabs along the top. We recommend completing this course in several sessions. The course uses a personal preparedness program in a county health department as the case example, but the information is applicable to gathering data in many types of public health programs.

Learning Objectives:

  1. List five data collection methods in program evaluation.
  2. Design a basic survey questionnaire.
  3. List two methods of selecting a survey sample.
  4. Describe key components in planning and conducting interviews and focus groups.

Program evaluation

Making Data, Policy and Politics Work for Public Health

This self-paced online course focuses on the important role of health-related data in formulating effective public health policy in the context of a political society. In a hands-on format, this course helps public health decision makers examine how public health stakeholders and policymakers can select appropriate data sources, use data responsibly, and represent important public health issues in a data-driven way. At the same time, the interplay of politics, public health, and health research is highlighted.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Describe the importance of providing a scientific and data-driven foundation in policy making and goal-setting
  2. Locate appropriate and reliable sources of public health scientific and data information
  3. Interpret health-related data in a policy or political context
  4. Communicate research data findings to public health stakeholders
  5. Explain how to translate data into usable information Identify gaps in health research information

Data Utilization Policy Program evaluation

Evaluation Planning and Prioritizing: Stakeholders are Your Edge

In this webcast, Dr. Cecilia Hegamin-Younger will provide a presentation on ways you can engage your stakeholders from the beginning of your program planning process through implementation, map their concerns to program outcomes in your logic model, and thereby focus your program evaluation on specific priority areas.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Describe the importance of considering all audiences for an evaluation.
  2. Discuss appropriate scoping activities to focus and inform the evaluation plan.

Community and Organizational Partnerships Program evaluation Project Scope

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