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title: The Latest | Kathleen Slemon
description: Kathleen Slemon has worked in program evaluation and research in non-profit and mental health settings and is passionate about finding ways to make program evaluation more accessible and approachable.
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## Kathleen Slemon

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Kathleen Slemon has worked in program evaluation and research in non-profit and mental health settings and is passionate about finding ways to make program evaluation more accessible and approachable.

### Recent Posts

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### [Why do we still think youth aren’t interested in program evaluation?](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/why-do-we-still-think-youth-arent-interested-in-program-evaluation?hsLang=en-us)

 Posted by [Kathleen Slemon](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/author/kathleen-slemon) on September 2, 2020

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