Webinar 1: Engaging Stakeholders & Describing the Program

The Evaluation Fundamentals Series was developed as part of AIM-Local Health, a research project of the Prevention Research Center (PRC) at Washington University in St. Louis and funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK: R01DK109913; CDC PRC: U48DP006395); purpose: to enhance use of evidence-based diabetes control among local health departments. The series includes six webinars developed by the PRC in partnership with the Brown School Evaluation Center at Washington University in St. Louis and National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO) Research and Evaluation with the overall goal to build participants’ skills and confidence in developing or strengthening program evaluation plans. Webinar 1: Engaging Stakeholders & Describing the Program Learning objectives: o Identify the key stakeholders in public health programs o Describe the roles of stakeholders in evaluation and how to engage them o Describe the timing of evaluation o Explain the purpose of logic models and its components o Construct a simple logic model to describe a program