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November 2002 Evaluating Community-Based Tobacco Prevention Programs Minnesota’s Experience Amy J. Ellestad, MPH Laura Hutton, MA Minnesota Department of Health
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November 2002 Minnesota Youth Tobacco Prevention Initiative’s (MYTPI) * FMV= Fair Market Value Relationship to Tobacco Settlement
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November 2002 Components of MYTPI
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November 2002 Community-Based Grantee Focus Areas Reduce Exposure to Secondhand Smoke All locally funded grantees required to address SHS Populations-at-risk grantees strongly encouraged to address SHS Implementing Comprehensive School-based Tobacco Prevention Youth Advocacy Assuring Access to Treatment Reducing Youth Access
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November 2002 Evaluation Requirements of Community-Based Programs Evaluation Plan and Report One staff person to oversee the implement evaluation plan Minimum 10% of the grant toward evaluation Use evaluation results to improve program Approval on all surveys
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November 2002 Program Evaluation Assistance Center (PEAC) Awarded a grant to the University of Minnesota Division of Epidemiology Evaluation Coordinators, graduate assistants, a faculty director, and an associate director Charge: Support grantees to evaluate their program Evaluate common types of activities occurring throughout the state
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November 2002 How PEAC Works with Grantees PEAC coordinators meet with grantees to develop evaluation plans The grantees are responsible for implementing their evaluation plans PEAC supports the grantees in implementing the evaluation plan by providing services
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November 2002 Services PEAC Offers to Grantees Training on evaluation topics Creating forms & logs to manage data Writing questions and providing advice on focus groups and interviews Customized survey development
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November 2002 Services PEAC Offers to Grantees Customized data entry spreadsheets for surveys Help with data interpretation & analysis Using evaluation results to improve programs Assistance in final report development
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November 2002 Statewide Evaluations of Common Types of Activities PEAC conducts assessments of common activities done across grantees Common activities include: working with schools youth development activities second hand smoke
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November 2002 Lessons Learned Providing one-on-one evaluation help is useful to grantees Grantees need help in turning work plans into evaluation plans Grantees need to understand how to use their data for program improvement
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November 2002 Lessons Learned The more flexibility allowed in work plans, the harder it is to provide evaluations across grantees By working closely with grantees, evaluators can give a “heads up” on problems to Health Dept. Having a close relationship between Health Dept. grant managers and evaluators is critical Concrete steps help grantees move toward “Best Practices”
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