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PROJECTS

Project	Description	Partners
Community-based research
Circle of Community Research for Indigenous Health	A community-based action research project where American Indian community members determined methods, received training, conducted Photovoice research and created a community calendar to disseminate their results.	Indigenous Peoples Task Force (Minneapolis); University of Minnesota
Improving Research on Service for HIV/AIDS Affected Communities	Developed HIV needs assessment methods, including instrument, sampling plan, data management and analysis. Worked with staff to develop sensitive, yet rigorous sampling plan for diverse populations, including GLBT populations of color, homeless, substance abusers, and women. Also prepared 2 year training evaluation plan with logic models and recommended actions to develop internal capacity for future activity	Southeast AIDS Training and Education Center (Atlanta)
Participatory Evaluation
Utilization-focused Evaluation for Cancer Control Projects	Scott Consulting Partners serves as evaluation consultant for the statewide partnership, the Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan. We work closely with partnership staff to apply the CDC Framework for Evaluation, identifying primary users and uses of evaluation information to create evaluation plans and collect evaluation data that will be accessible and useful for program improvement. The evaluation of special projects will be integrated into an overall evaluation plan that will help uncover successes and challenges as the implementation of the plan unfolds over the next several years. (Link to wicancer.org)	Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan (Madison)
Participatory Program Monitoring for Tobacco Control Coalitions	Developed a computerized Progress Tracking System (PTS) for coalition activity/outcome tracking and held "Data Parties" to build motivation and improve data validity After 5 years of continuous use, the PTS has been updated to focus on best practice indicators and is now called the iPTS. Software development and technical assistance is provided by Community Research Works member, Leigh Welper. We also created an innovative evaluation and program development method using the PTS a help generate qualitative stories of chosen best practice successes.	NC Tobacco Prevention and Control Branch (Raleigh); University of North Carolina Tobacco Prevention and Evaluation Programs (Chapel Hill)
Youth Empowerment Evaluation	Question Why is a program that provides a clear, replicable model to empower youth to create change in their communities, their states and their world. We trained youth evaluators and created dozens of tools to help youth and adults conduct program evaluation. Tools included databases such as the “Survey Wizard” and the “Training and Leadership Database” to track youth groups trained by ?Y. We also incorporated creative methods such as website follow-up surveys and Palm Pilot surveys to evaluate youth events.	Question Why (?Y) Youth Centers; North Carolina Tobacco Prevention and Control Branch (Raleigh)
Program Development
Piya Wiconi	An American Indian Family-Focused Diabetes Prevention Project This one-year collaborative project with the Indigenous Peoples Task Force and the St. Paul Elder's Lodge trains intergenerational American Indians to serve as family peer educators. The educators move within their family circles to raise awareness and initiate dialogue that "we can change the future" to address the alarmingly high rates of diabetes within Minnesota Indian communities. Participants range from 17 to 78, with a variety of experiences and tribal backgrounds.	Indigenous Peoples Task Force (Minneapolis)
Smoke Free HBCUs: Developing Advocacy Skills	We developed a partnership to conduct a project that nurtures African American leadership in tobacco prevention and control on historically black college campuses. NCCU became one of the first public HBCUs to create a smoke free dorm policy with student leadership. For dissemination of success, we created an Advocacy Toolkit & assisted with a tri-state Workshop in 2005.	North Carolina Central University (NCCU - Durham)