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Process and Outcome Evaluation: A Brief Overview

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While program evaluation can seem like a daunting task at times, evaluations are key to successful program learning and improvement for any organization. Program evaluation is important for organizations of all sizes and backgrounds. Evaluation can let you know the areas your program needs to improve to make a greater impact on your participants. It can also let you know if your program is worth continuing or not. 

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The Importance of Program Evaluation in the Long-Term Care

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Program evaluation is an important part of long-term care due to its critical role in supporting evidence-based approaches to care. Long-term care is a diverse and essential service provided over a sustained period to people of all ages. Whether it's minimal personal support or comprehensive care. Long-term care can be provided in settings, such as nursing homes, residential care facilities, as well as people’s home environments.

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Collaboration, Self-Care and Systems Change

Do you ever feel selfish for prioritizing self-care? Or are you never able to prioritize self-care because work and life is too demanding?

It’s not selfish.

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Lessons from Brussels: Exploring Social Initiatives for Youth in Europe

 

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Photo Credit: Layla Belmahi 

At the end of April 2023, as part of my duties with the Tamarack Institute’s Communities Building Futures for Youth team (CBYF), I had the opportunity to accompany Concertation Saint-Léonard on an exploratory mission to Brussels. The objective: to learn more about youth civic participation and other issues that concern them (urban safety, living in an intercultural context, housing, etc.), in a Belgian context. The Saint-Léonard delegation, which also included partners such as Accueil aux immigrants de l’Est de Montréal, the YMCA, and the DOD Basketball Organisation, had the opportunity to meet Belgian partners and learn more about the following initiatives:

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Unleashing Youth Expression Through Arts-Based Evaluation

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Picture this: program enrollment is on a decline and youth seem to have lost interest in a program. What do you do as a professional in the field?

This blog will give some insight into the benefits and considerations for conducting arts-based evaluations for community youth programs, with the hope of offering a unique approach to increasing interest and engagement in recreational programs for young people.  It is adapted from the author’s original academic article.

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Event Recap: Communities Ending Poverty: Summit for Strength

Recapping three dynamic days of learning and exploring resilience in a new way

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