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Tatevik Markosyan; Catherine Sanders; Alexa Lamm – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2024
New approaches are needed when working in rural communities to identify and communicate holistic evaluation impacts related to community-based health promotion efforts of Cooperative Extension. Specifically, there is a lack of recorded long-term programmatic impacts of these programs, including behavior changes related to consuming nutritious and…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Health Promotion, Extension Education, Community Programs
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Sara E. North – American Journal of Evaluation, 2024
A method called multi-attribute utility analysis (MAUA) provides a decision-making framework that facilitates comparative analysis of multiple real-world decision alternatives with unique complex attributes. Utility analysis as a measure of effectiveness has been minimally used by educational researchers to date, despite clear relevance in complex…
Descriptors: Urban Universities, Suburban Schools, Nontraditional Students, Higher Education
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Kegler, Michelle C.; Hermstad, April; Haardörfer, Regine; Arriola, Kimberly Jacob; Gauthreaux, Nicole; Tucker, Samantha; Nelson, Gary – Health Education & Behavior, 2023
As persistent inequities in health gained increased attention nationally due to COVID-19 and racial justice protests in 2020, it has become increasingly important to evaluate both the process and outcomes associated with coalition-based efforts to address health inequities. "The Two Georgias Initiative" supports coalitions in 11 rural…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Rural Areas, Health Promotion, Racism
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Griffin, Becky; Braman, Kris – Journal of Extension, 2018
Due to changing federal and state policy as well as increased community concerns about pollinators, assisting clients interested in pollinator health is taking more Extension agent time and resources. In addition, many gardeners tend to be beginners in need of support to recognize best management practices related to pollinating and beneficial…
Descriptors: Entomology, Gardening, Models, Program Development
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DiGirolamo, Ann M.; Desai, Dimple; Farmer, Deana; McLaren, Susan; Whitmore, Ani; McKay, Danté; Fitzgerald, Layla; Pearson, Stephanie; McGiboney, Garry – School Psychology Review, 2021
Nationally, school-based mental health (SBMH) is seen as an avenue to increase access to children's mental health services and promote mental health awareness. The current article describes the implementation of a statewide SBMH program focusing on partnerships between community-based providers and local school systems, with providers embedded…
Descriptors: Mental Health Programs, School Community Programs, Integrated Services, Access to Health Care
Valentine, Jessa; Price, Derek; Yang, Haisheng – Lumina Foundation, 2021
This report examines the relationship between students' participation in high-impact practices (HIP) and their perceived learning gains, with special attention paid to the nature of these relationships among Black and Hispanic students and among students 25 years or older. In 2018, with support from Lumina Foundation, the National Association of…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Achievement Gains, Correlation, Student Participation
Center for Promise, 2013
Good schools are essential, but not sufficient for the long-term academic, economic, and civic success of our nation's young people. Rather, an integrated set of supports is needed in families, in all facets of communities, and in schools. Research, community wisdom, and common sense tell us that families, schools, and the broader community need…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Child Development, Community Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
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Hoey, J. Joseph; Feld-Gore, Jeffrey A. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2014
This chapter describes the impact of an alternative spring break program on students at the Savannah College of Art and Design over a set of years as well as its effectiveness as a service-learning tool.
Descriptors: Student Participation, Program Descriptions, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
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Chen, Huey T.; Turner, Nannette C. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2012
Health promotion and social betterment program interventions are based on either formal theory from academia or stakeholder theory from stakeholders' observations and experiences in working with clients. Over time, formal theory-based interventions have acquired high prestige, while stakeholder theory-based interventions have been held in low…
Descriptors: Intervention, Health Promotion, Program Evaluation, Smoking
Muller, Eve – Project Forum, 2011
Evidence strongly supports the notion that juvenile offenders, both with and without disabilities, are significantly more likely to experience successful reentry into their home schools and communities if appropriate programs and supports are in place. In spite of this, comprehensive state-level reentry programs for youth are few and far between.…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Juvenile Justice, Rehabilitation, Delinquency
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Sibley, Annette; And Others – 1996
The five-year Georgia Head Start Quality Initiative was founded in 1994 to provide training and technical assistance (consisting of monthly group training sessions and individual on-site consultation) for Georgia Head Start administrators as they pursue National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) accreditation. This document…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Administrators, Community Programs, Day Care Centers