The third Campus Mental Health Action Planning webinar focuses on selecting and developing campus practices that are most likely to decrease mental health problems, suicidal behavior, and suicide and promote mental health and wellness. Topics covered include how to: develop a comprehensive, multi-strategy approach; choose “best practices”; and use a logic model in program planning.
Resources and Research for "Develop an evaluation plan"
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CampusMHAP Webinar III: Developing Programs
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CampusMHAP Webinar IV: Measuring Impact
The fourth Campus Mental Health Action Planning webinar provides a basic orientation to the design and implementation of process and outcome evaluations for programs that promote mental health and reduce risk factors for suicide and suicidal behavior. This session covers key methods of quantitative and qualitative program evaluation; experiences of one campus in planning an evaluation of a widely-used training program; and how to work with your program evaluator in developing an appropriate evaluation plan.
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Getting to Outcomes™ 2004: Promoting Accountability through Methods and Tools for Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation (Pages 93-113 and 115-136)
Pages 93-113 and 115-136 address the development of an evaluation plan as part of strategic planning.
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How to Select a Program Evaluator
This 3-page flyer describes the role of evaluation in program planning and implementation; skills, expertise, qualifications, and experience to look for when seeking an evaluator; incentives for the evaluator; questions to ask when considering an evaluator; and how to network to find the right evaluator.
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Leaving a Legacy: Our vision: The Legacy Wheel (Evaluation and Strategic Planning)
These web pages, on the site of the National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention, provide tools to help campus planners build sustainable programs. See especially Evaluation and Strategic Planning.
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Reducing Alcohol Problems on Campus: A Guide to Planning and Evaluation
This brief guide outlines five steps for effective prevention planning and evaluation on campus. Although the focus is on campus alcohol problems, the steps and guidance are applicable to any health promotion or problem prevention program.
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The Community Tool Box (Chapters 36-38)
This website provides practical, step-by-step guidance in community-building and strategic planning skills. Chapters 36-38 contain information about developing an evaluation plan.
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University of Wisconsin Extension
This course offered by the University of Wisconsin Extension introduces a holistic approach to planning and evaluating education and outreach programs. It helps program practitioners use and apply logic models and provides a foundation in logic models and how to use them for planning, implementation, evaluation, or communicating about a program.
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Using Logic Models to Bring Together Planning, Evaluation, and Action: Logic Model Development Guide
A companion publication to the Evaluation Handbook, this guide provides an orientation to the underlying principles and language of the program logic model for effective use in program planning, implementation, and dissemination of results.
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W.K. Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook
This publication provides a framework for effective evaluation approaches, with an orientation to using multidisciplinary evaluation techniques, identifying the appropriate issues, and building capacity.
