Prevention Innovation & Evaluation Exchange
This event will bring together experts and practitioners to build partnerships that support program evaluation, documentation, and inclusion in an Ohio-based registry of effective prevention programs.
About
The Ohio Education Resource Center in the John Glenn College of Public Affairs and the College of Social Work at The Ohio State University have received financial support for the Ohio Department of Behavioral Health to build capacity for Ohio’s behavioral health professionals to select and deliver evidence-based prevention and early intervention strategies. Acknowledging both existing evidence gaps in the behavioral health prevention literature and the value of both “home-grown” strategies and those evidence-based strategies that have been adapted to address local contexts, Ohio DBH is investing in the evaluation of these strategies to prepare them for inclusion in a future registry of prevention and early-intervention strategies.
To facilitate this, we are hosting a Prevention Innovation and Evaluation Exchange on Thursday, Aug. 13. This event is intended to bring together community practitioners who have developed a home-grown initiative and/or are implementing adapted evidence-based strategies and researchers to identify opportunities for collaboration in support of evaluating these programs for inclusion in a future registry of evidence-based prevention and early-intervention strategies.
Funding will be available to support the evaluation and technical assistance researchers provide to organizations.
Target audience:
- Prevention researchers
- Program evaluators
- Faculty & research staff
- Experts in community-based research or evaluation methods