CYFAR Professional Development Event 2025

The University Of Arizona--Reducing Family Stress Sustainable Community Project uses a two-generation approach and multi-faceted program model to facilitate positive parent-child interactions and the emotional and financial wellbeing of the family. This program runs 4 to 6 8-week sessions a year, serving two Arizona communities with family-centered, intergenerational, and community-engaged programming with an emphasis on: positive parenting of teens, financial literacy/parenting, youth financial education, and community connectedness. The evaluation is led by the Community Research, Evaluation & Development (CRED) team, a UA resource, but supported by the entire CYFAR team. Evaluation of this program includes weekly formative evaluation and quality improvement, baseline and follow up surveys for adult and youth participants focused on topical content (e.g., financial literacy and family communication), as well as the CYFAR common measures. Additionally, we conduct a post-completion follow-up survey to see if the skills and knowledge addressed in the class are having a lingering effect. In this session, we’ll detail how the entire team works together to support evaluation, explain how we use technological tools to facilitate data collection, and highlight some of our findings.