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Joly, Brenda Morissette; Williamson, Martha Elbaum; Bernard, Kimberly Pukstas; Mittal, Prashant; Pratt, Jennifer – Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2012
Background: Community health efforts often include outreach activities designed to increase awareness and ensure uptake of services or programs. Yet, few comprehensive outreach evaluations exist, particularly those designed to improve access to and use of mental health services. Purpose: This article summarizes the use of two established…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Mental Health Programs, Focus Groups, Public Health
Block, William E. – 1977
Consumer satisfaction with mental health services is one of the process objectives inherent in the general goals for community mental health centers funded federally by the National Institute of Mental Health. Programs must demonstrate that patients and other service consumers agree that their needs are being met by existing services and patterns…
Descriptors: Accountability, Community Health Services, Counselor Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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Johnston, Corrine W. – Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation/La Revue canadienne d'evaluation de programme, 1996
The evaluation strategy adopted by a rural Ontario (Canada) community health center is described, focusing on problems caused by multiple programs, variable and culturally diverse client base, and nontraditional approaches to health and wellness. The evaluation attempted to give a broad picture of the center's dynamics, processes, and efficacy.…
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Cultural Differences, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Speer, David C. – 1978
The two-year process of establishing and implementing a by-mail outcome evaluation system in a community mental health center is described. The effect of active executive leadership and the subsequent effects of staff cooperation on client participation rates are discussed, as well as specific responsibilities of the program manager. Illustrative…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrators, Community Health Services, Evaluation Methods
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Lemieux-Charles, Louis; Chambers, Larry W.; Cockerill, Rhonda; Jaglal, Susan; Brazil, Kevin; Cohen, Carole; LeClair, Ken; Dalziel, Bill; Schulman, Barbara – Gerontologist, 2005
Purpose: The Dementia Care Networks' Study examined the effectiveness of four community-based, not-for-profit dementia networks. The study involved assessing the relationship between the types of administrative and service-delivery exchanges that occurred among the networked agencies and the network members' perception of the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Dementia, Network Analysis, Social Networks
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Frumkin, Michael – Administration in Mental Health, 1982
Proposes a framework for assessing how human service delivery systems function. Identifies factors that influence the ability of agencies to operate as a unified system. Provides an accurate picture of how services are delivered to target populations, and why various systems function as they do. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Delivery Systems, Evaluation Methods, Human Services
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Fontaine, Denis – Children in the Tropics, 1992
The theme of this serial issue is helping individuals involved in community health programs at the local level to devise and apply a protocol for the evaluation of a community health program. In the opening sections of the issue evaluation is defined, the difference between a direct quantifying measure and an indicator is clarified, obstacles to…
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Developing Nations, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Tresolini, Carol P.; Savage, Katherine D.; Hedgpeth, Marian Wells; Curtis, Peter – 2002
The Visiting Clinician Program (VCP) was established in 1996 at a public medical school to provide individualized continuing education to participants and to foster closer ties between academic health center faculty and community practitioners who serve as preceptors for health professions students. Various methods have been used to evaluate the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Collegiality, Community Health Services, Context Effect
Don Gibala; Wendy Stuhldreher – Link, 2001
The internship program for undergraduate-level community health students at Slippery Rock University in Butler, Pennsylvania, is designed as a capstone experience bridging the gap from academia to practice. Students in the internship program spend 12 weeks during the summer of their senior year working in any health organization of their choice,…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Capstone Experiences, Communication Skills, Community Health Services