"Moving the needles" on community-wide issues requires cross-sector coordination and an engaged community.

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As a participant, you will have the opportunity to:

• Identify the dynamics and patterns of community change 
• Strengthen your understanding and appetite for evaluation 
• Explore a variety of evaluation approaches and tools appropriate for community change

This workshop is designed for you if you:

• Desire new ways to evaluate change in your community 
• Are involved in efforts to ‘move the needle’ on homelessness, poverty, health, environmental sustainability, immigration and early childhood development issues – and other elements of a healthy community
• Provide leadership and support to evaluation efforts and want to increase knowledge, skills and capacity

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What you'll learn

Key themes addressed during the workshop will enable participants to understand the unique approach to evaluating large-scale community change initiatives. These themes include:

• Models and dynamics of community change including Theory of Change
• The core concepts of evaluative thinking, utilization focused evaluation, and developmental evaluation
• The critical differences between traditional program evaluation and the evaluation of community change evaluation
• The unique challenges of assessing community change e.g. ‘measuring’ systems change, dealing with unanticipated outcomes, attributing outcomes to change activities, and participatory sense-making
• Evaluation Planning Tools e.g. evaluation scope of work, utilization-focused checklist, developmental evaluation checklist
• Outcome Evaluation Tools e.g. Most Significant Change, contribution analysis, multiple perspectives exercise, outcome mapping, splash and ripple

Questions? kirsti@tamarackcommunity.ca