Prevention Resources

Program Planning & Evaluation

Evolution to Effective Prevention
Developed by the Prevention Institute. The Evolution to Effective Prevention Diagnostic Scale can help organizations, communities, and collaboratives assess the development of their prevention efforts. This tool is designed to analyze current efforts and assist groups in making efforts more comprehensive and effective.

Evaluation: Designs and Approaches
This publication describes two of the basic choices that must be made when designing an evaluation. The first is about the choice of an evaluation's design. The second concerns choosing a quantitative, qualitative, or mixed approach.

Gauging Progress A Guidebook For Community Sexual Assault Programs and Community Development Initiatives
This guide developed by Organizational Research Services (an independent research and evaluation firm) provides an introduction to out-come based evaluation and its incorporation in the community development framework.

Getting to Outcomes 2004: Promoting Accountability Through Methods and Tools for Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation
The manual’s text and worksheets address needs and resources assessment; goals and objectives; choosing programs; ensuring program “fit”; capacity, planning, process, and outcome evaluation; continuous quality improvement; and sustainability.

Handbook for Participatory Community Assessments
This handbook is organized into nine steps and is intended to be a guide to the process. Step 1: Building partnerships for community assessment. Step 2: Initial planning activities; Step 3: Setting the direction of the community assessment; Step 4: Developing indicators; Step 5: Choosing your data collection methods; Step 6: Collecting the data; Step 7: Sharing the results; Step 8: Writing a community action plan; Step 9: Evaluating the community assessment

Key Steps in Outcome Management
This is the first in a series of guidebooks from the Urban Institute. It covers the necessary steps for nonprofit organizations that wish to implement outcome management (also known as "managing for results"), and includes guidance on establishing an outcome-oriented measurement process and practices for using the information internally.

Measuring Violence-Related Attitudes, Behaviors, and Influences Among Youths: A Compendium of Assessment Tools.
This compendium provides researchers and prevention specialists with a set of tools to assess violence-related beliefs, behaviors, and influences, as well as to evaluate programs to prevent youth violence. Compiled and Edited by Dahlberg, Toal, Swahn, and Behrens, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2005.

Nonprofit Organizational Assessment Tool: Outcome Measurement
This assessment tool can help an organization guide and track its progress in developing and implementing an outcome measurement system.

Research Education and Information Manual
This guide is for community groups, organizations, advocates or anybody else who wants to find out more about action research and how it can be used to meet the needs of community problems and issues. The guide is meant to provide you with basic knowledge about action research. It will clearly introduce feminist action research methods and procedures and offer information, guidance and additional resources. The guide will also take you through a step-by-step process of designing a research project.

Theory at a Glance: A Guide for Health Promotion Practice
The National Cancer Institute is pleased to sponsor the publication of this guide, but its relevance is by no means limited to cancer prevention and control. The principles described herein can serve as frameworks for many domains of public health intervention. The guide is a welcome resource for public health practitioners seeking a singel, concise summary of health behavior theories that is neither overwhelming nor superficial.

Using Logic Models to Bring Together Planning, Evaluation and Action
Logic model development guide.

Links

SAMHSA's Prevention Platform
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Evaluation resources.

United Way's Outcome Measurement Resource Network
Resource Network offers information, downloadable documents, and links to resources related to the identification and measurement of program- and community-level outcomes.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Evaluation publications and resources.