Program Evaluation
CSR works collaboratively with federal, state, and local agencies to review and assess the management, organization, and effectiveness of their programs. CSR provides the full range of evaluation research services, including:
- Formulating conceptual and analytical frameworks to respond to research questions
- Conducting studies of the feasibility of evaluating specific program models
- Collecting and analyzing data through community and program observations, focus groups with program clients and informed community leaders, interviews with program staff and clients, and review of program documentation
- Employing a range of statistical techniques, ethnographic methods, and cost-benefit analyses, and
- Developing and implementing systems to assess client outcomes, impacts on the community, and critical program processes that explain results.
CSR’s evaluation studies have supported the assessment of outcomes for programs that operate at the neighborhood level, programs that target high-risk youth, Native Americans and other ethnic minorities, and programs that participate in national policy reforms. We have evaluated programs that address disease prevention, family support, and maternal and child health; foster literacy among children at high risk for school failure; encourage patient participation in clinical trials; promote innovative cancer research; enhance criminal and domestic violence prevention and treatment; improve employment and economic development; and enhance the quality of the community environment.
