This set of tools explores reasons to involve an evaluator early on, the pros and cons of internal vs. external evaluators, tips for assessing evaluator qualifications, and strategies for working well with your evaluator and minimizing costs.

Learn how to use process evaluation to determine if an intervention was implemented as planned and successfully reached the target population.

This resource defines these two approaches to evaluation and describes some benefits of the latter.

Find tips for conducting interviews with key informants to help give your conversation direction and make the respondent feel at ease.

Access guidelines for obtaining the best results with focus groups as part of your prevention planning efforts.

Learn about the different types of evaluation designs and factors to consider when choosing one design over another.

This evaluation tool focuses on two factors that affect the accuracy and quality of survey data: the representativeness of the sample selected from the population and the response rate (that is, the proportion) of the selected sample that participates in the survey.

Evaluation results reporting helps you improve your program and is crucial for fundraising and gaining community support.

When New York’s Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services rolled out a new set of reporting requirements last spring, they saw a unique opportunity to empower and engage prevention practitioners in evaluation planning. To help them do so, they drew on the resources of Prevention Solutions@EDC.

Having access to good data and understanding how to use it is the foundation for effective prevention programming. Over the past three years, PS@EDC has worked closely with the Dedham Organization for Substance Awareness (DOSA) to integrate data into all of this successful coalition's decision-making.