Final Assignment: Program Summary 4/7/13

HSM/270

Dakira Starks-Walker

Program Summary

Overview of Program PEACE’s mission is to reduce victim trauma, empower survivors, and promote recovery through direct services. PEACE is committed to reducing the incidence of sexual assault and domestic violence through education and strives to challenge societal norms and beliefs that condone and perpetuate violence in the community. Evaluation is one of the most important steps in the development and implementation of any program or project. As imperative as it is to lay a solid foundation through mission, goals, and objectives, it is equally as important to have a way to define success or failure through use of appropriate tools, accurate reporting, and proper evaluation techniques. Deciding whether to use a process evaluation format or outcome evaluation can be challenging, but often a coordinated system is most telling. The main objective of any evaluation technique is to provide the state of the agency and how well or poorly their programs are working, what may need to be changed, and how well they continue to meet their mission, goals and objectives.
The mission, goals, and objectives that are presented in the scenario are fairly generalized. Without an adequate, detailed description of how the program will be administrated and implemented, it is nearly impossible to perform a process evaluation. Process evaluations serve to collect the information from the program which provides the basis for outcome evaluations. Outcome evaluations take the assessments and raw data to identify how well the program has met its goals. In order to truly evaluate this agency, some academic liberties must be taken to set the groundwork. Ignoring either process will not provide an accurate estimation of any program.
The process evaluation technique requires that data be