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Evaluation

For Nebraska Children, evaluation is work that generates new knowledge and is focused on answering questions about how, why, and to what extent objectives or goals are achieved. Because Nebraska Children believes that communities are the most powerful vehicle available for delivering positive change for our state’s kids, much of Nebraska Children’s evaluation efforts focus on community-level prevention work. For the same reason, Nebraska Children is also invested in “setting communities up for success” when it comes to evaluation work. What this looks likes varies from community to community; however, commonalities include: 

  1. Facilitation of community conversations to identify and commit to shared goals and related metrics,
  2. Provision of ongoing, tailored, technical assistance from Nebraska Children’s staff and external evaluation partners related to data collection, data interpretation, and data use, and
  3. For the core components of Nebraska Children’s work (for example, the collective impact approach and specific prevention strategies), development and continuous improvement of processes designed to ease the burden of data collection, while maintaining and ensuring data quality.

Supported by Nebraska Children’s external evaluation partners, communities collect both implementation and outcome data to answer evaluative questions related to the collaborative functions of locally-based prevention systems as well as the strategies associated with these systems. Furthermore, for the evaluation of core prevention strategies, Nebraska Children has adopted Results-Based Accountability as a data-driven decision-making process. See below for reports related to Nebraska Children’s Community Well-Being Work as a whole, as well as reports on specific prevention strategies.

 

Community Well-Being – Evaluation Reports

 

Nebraska Children Initiatives – Evaluation Reports

Communities for Kids

Connected Youth Initiative:

Rooted in Relationships

 

Sixpence

Core Strategies within Community Well-Being – Evaluation Reports


Evaluation Tools


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