Utilizing program evaluation as a strategy to promote community change: evaluation of a comprehensive, community-based, family violence initiative.
This paper describes the authors' work in a community that received Federal funding for an integrated system of care to reduce the impact and incidence of exposure to violence for children less than six years of age. The paper includes a review of the conceptual framework that guided the work of the authors and provides a brief overview of the issue of family violence, the impact of this violence on young children, and the Federal response to this issue. In addition, a description of the Initiative and the community in which it was based is provided along with some aspects of the evaluation plan. Finally, the authors discuss how their work with this Initiative depicts an approach to facilitating change within communities.
Kaufman
Joy S
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The Division of Prevention and Community Research and The Consultation Center, Yale University School of Medicine, 389 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511, USA. joy.kaufman@yale.edu
Crusto
Cindy A
CA
Quan
Michael
M
Ross
Ellen
E
Friedman
Stacey R
SR
O'Rielly
Kim
K
Call
Stephanie
S
D018672:Community Health Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D003191:Comprehensive Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012922:Social Change; D014481:United States; D014754:Violence / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology