Revised Evaluation Plan - the Peace Domestic Violence Agency

The Peace Domestic Violence Agency

Evaluation is one of the most important steps in the development and implementation of any program or project. As imperative as it is to lay a solid foundation through mission, goals, and objectives, it is equally as important to have a way to define success or failure through use of appropriate tools, accurate reporting, and proper evaluation techniques. Deciding whether to use a process evaluation format or outcome evaluation can be challenging, but often a coordinated system is most telling. The main objective of any evaluation technique is to provide the state of the agency and how well or poorly their programs are working, what may need to be changed, and how well they continue to meet their mission, goals and objectives.

The Peace Domestic Violence Agency is an organization which prides itself on helping children and adults get back their self-confidence and feel like they belong to the community as a human being. Consequently Peace is located in the middle of the community where everyone has the capability to get to the center. In addition the community strongly supports the specific aim that will be helping children to adults get their lives back and build up their self- worth. The mission, goals, and objectives that are presented in the scenario are fairly generalized. As a result without an adequate, detailed description of how the program will be administrated and implemented, it is nearly impossible to perform a process evaluation. To illustrate process evaluations serve to collect the information from the program which provides the basis for outcome evaluations. Moreover outcome evaluations take the assessments and raw data to identify how well the program has met its goals. In other words in order to truly evaluate this agency, some academic liberties must be taken to set the groundwork. Furthermore ignoring either process will not provide an accurate estimation of any program.

The process evaluation will be the staff working with different groups to help them with their crises such as sexual abuse, domestic violence, youth violence, and other groups who need help. In addition they will be working within the community to help everyone and anyone no matter their race, age, or special needs. Equally important the process evaluation technique requires that data be collected in many different forms. As similarly using properly designed assessments, the process can be evaluated for efficiency, effectiveness, and the need for further extended study. In this case, evaluations may include such tools as participant, parent, children, and young adults, interviews with staff members to evaluate the beginning and ending of how the programs are working and if there needs to be improvement in different programs. While these tools provide the basis for outcome evaluation, the process with which they are collected is equally important. For instance without