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Source: New Directions for Evaluation - October 21, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: ISSUE INFORMATION Source Type: research
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Source: New Directions for Evaluation - October 21, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Dylan Felt,
Esrea Perez ‐Bill,
Erik Elías Glenn,
Gregory Phillips Tags: EDITORIAL Source Type: research
Identity as a compass when navigating uncharted equitable spaces: Our queer evaluation practices
AbstractAlternative approaches within evaluation increasingly allow space for evaluators to bring themselves to their work. As queers, we are gifted-partially as a necessity for our survival-with deeper understandings of and navigational capacities to work within complexity. Furthermore, existing as queer empowers us to think and operate outside what is the norm, known, familiar and comfortable, and thus enables us to challenge normative systems for purposes of social change. Our chapter offers situated insight into what queer evaluation practices look like and empowers us to practice bringing ourselves into different cont...
Source: New Directions for Evaluation - October 21, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Andrew Hartman,
Brian Hoessler,
Vincent Tom,
C. Camman Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Assessment of the inclusivity of the national CLAS standards enhancement initiative of bisexual identities
AbstractThis chapter reports on the evaluation of state and local level National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health Care (aka CLAS Standards), specifically those standards addressing the health needs of sexual minority individuals, with an emphasis on the inclusion of bisexual+ communities and the implications of bisexual+ (non)inclusion in CLAS standards. At the state and local levels, bisexual identity is rarely recognized as distinct from other sexual identities. This lack of representation raises an essential issue of how local communities, states, and the federal government stru...
Source: New Directions for Evaluation - October 21, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Carlos A. O. Pav ão,
Kenneth R. McLeroy,
Yvonna S. Lincoln,
James N. Burdine,
Eric R. Wright Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Perspectives from LGBTQ+ serving CBO leaders on equitable community ‐academic partnerships in evaluation
AbstractIn the United States, human service, public health, and healthcare organizations are dedicated to improving health equity among our society'smost vulnerable. A wealth of literature highlights the importance of targeting root causes of inequity, however, intervention-based attempts to improve health outcomes and reduce disparities have varied in their success. Too frequently, public health interventions fail to center community priorities and challenge oppressive regimes. At the same time, calls grow to pilot and evaluate new systems of care and service to replace antiquated, patchwork systems that depend on power i...
Source: New Directions for Evaluation - October 21, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: LaSaia Wade,
Stephanie Skora,
Erik El ías Glenn Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
LGBTQ+ human rights evaluation in the global South: Lessons from evaluating Project ACT
AbstractThis chapter explores considerations for evaluators who work in countries and regions where LGBTQ+ acceptance is low and LGBTQ+ stigma, discrimination, and violence are pervasive. We highlight the ways in which LGBTQ+ criminalization and repressive legal restrictions impact on the task of evaluating LGBTQ+ advocacy and service provision. Drawing on our experience of evaluating a human rights advocacy initiative to reduce stigma, discrimination, and violence as barriers to access to HIV care in Africa and the Caribbean, we outline principles of practice that evaluators might observe and strategies they might draw on...
Source: New Directions for Evaluation - October 21, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Robin Lin Miller,
Johnny Tohme Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
At the intersection of co ‐creation: Exploring LGBTQ2S evaluation with youth
This article applies a reflective account of experiences of youth, organizational personnel, and evaluators in an evaluation of the Youth Services Bureau of Ottawa's transition to a Housing First for Youth model. A prominent aspect of this evaluation was the extended focus on, to and with LGBTQ2S+ youth. Our collective account positions co-creation along a continuum involving these youth as data sources, as consultants, co-evaluators, and as co-leaders. Authors use these three continuum points to present related theory, application in our project context, the intersectional implications, and lessons learned to highlight pr...
Source: New Directions for Evaluation - October 21, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Jane Whynot,
Sarah Heath,
Larissa Silver,
Charlie ‐Rae Robin,
Mathew Kent Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Empowering the search for pleasure, health and well ‐being outside heteronormative definitions: The role of evaluation in shaping structurally sensitive programming for 2SGBTQ+ men who Party and Play in Ontario
AbstractSexualized drug use, also known asParty and Play (PnP, chemsex) is a phenomenon that is increasingly pervasive among 2SGBTQ+ communities in Canada and has been epidemiologically linked to increased risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted and blood-borne illnesses (STBBI). The phenomenon is highly stigmatized even within 2SGBTQ+ communities, perpetuating discrimination against individuals who PnP. Consequently, such individuals often remain invisible to formal care systems. Even as public health efforts seek to reduce the harms associated with PnP, narrowly epidemiological understandings of the phenomenon without...
Source: New Directions for Evaluation - October 21, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Yasser Ismail,
Dane Griffiths,
Jordan Bond ‐Gorr Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Evaluator education through an LGBTQ+ lens: Interrogating power and privilege in the classroom
AbstractThe long-term sustainability and stability of the evaluation profession is dependent on superior, evaluation-specific education programs designed to help increase the quality, numbers, visibility, and collective impact of evaluation theory and practice in society. Recent studies illustrate the breadth of colleges and universities in the United States that are offering certificates, master's degrees, and doctoral degrees with a specialization in evaluation. Less attention has been paid, however, to the ways higher education institutions prepare would-be evaluators to recognize the limits of their expertise and to wo...
Source: New Directions for Evaluation - October 21, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Morgan M. Wright,
John M. LaVelle Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Becoming an LGBTQ+ storyteller: Collecting and using data on gender, sex, and sexual orientation
AbstractLGBTQ+ stories and histories have long been silenced as part of deliberate work by those in power to erase our identities and experiences. As evaluators, we contribute to the process of either silencing or uplifting LGBTQ+ stories. This aspect of our work begs a number of vital questions that each of us must reckon with when we approach an evaluation: What data are necessary to allow us to tell a story? What story will we tell with the data we have collected? And, most importantly, who does the telling of certain stories benefit, who might it harm, and what is our responsibility as evaluators to protect peoples ’...
Source: New Directions for Evaluation - October 21, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Dylan Felt,
Esrea Perez ‐Bill,
Megan M. Ruprecht,
Michael Petillo,
Lauren B. Beach,
Erik Elías Glenn,
Gregory Phillips Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Principles of LGBTQ+ Evaluation
AbstractThe time is long overdue for the field of evaluation to critically reckon with how we have failed to appropriately consider the needs and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other sexual and gender minority (LGBTQ+) people. Perhaps even more importantly, there is a dire need for work that moves us forward in new directions which are more affirming and inclusive of LGBTQ+ people. To achieve this idealistic change in LGBTQ+ Evaluation will require a genuine, transformative paradigm shift within the evaluation field, encompassing everything from pedagogy to practice and all activities in bet...
Source: New Directions for Evaluation - October 21, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Gregory Phillips,
Dylan Felt,
Esrea Perez ‐Bill,
Megan M. Ruprecht,
Erik Elías Glenn Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Gauging treatment impact: The development of exposure variables in a large ‐scale evaluation study
AbstractWhile guidance on how to design rigorous evaluation studies abounds, prescriptive guidance on how to include critical process and context measures through the construction of exposure variables is lacking. Capturing nuanced intervention dosage information within a large-scale evaluation is particularly complex. The Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) initiative is part of the Diversity Program Consortium, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health. It is designed to increase participation in biomedical research careers among individuals from underrepresented groups. This chapter articulat...
Source: New Directions for Evaluation - August 13, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Nicole M. G. Maccalla,
Dawn Purnell,
Heather E. McCreath,
Robert A. Dennis,
Teresa Seeman Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Issue Information
(Source: New Directions for Evaluation)
Source: New Directions for Evaluation - August 8, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: ISSUE INFORMATION Source Type: research
Editors ’ notes
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Source: New Directions for Evaluation - August 8, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Lourdes Guerrero,
Christina Christie Tags: EDITORIAL Source Type: research
Large ‐scale evaluation efforts and their implications for the field
AbstractThe BUILD initiative is part of the Diversity Program Consortium, which the National Institutes of Health funded to increase diversity in biomedical research. This chapter aims to identify implications for the field from the multisite evaluation of BUILD initiative programs by reviewing the work undertaken by the authors of the other chapters in this issue. Given the complexities involved in multisite evaluations, innovative approaches and methods were used to balance the needs of each site with the overall objectives of the broader initiative. These approaches included a flexible orientation to the evaluation, mix...
Source: New Directions for Evaluation - August 8, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Tarek Azzam Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
