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Tuesday June 3, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm EDT
Program evaluation is not only an opportunity to facilitate program improvement but can also be a key opportunity to empower participants. Engaging program evaluation can further facilitate participants' transition from passive subjects to active agents within programs. This interactive conference session will address the benefits of participatory evaluation approaches and demonstrate how to use “Evaluation Skill-a-Thons" as a complement to CYFAR Common Measures to actively engage participants at every evaluation process step. With the Evaluation Skill-a-Thon model, participants actively participate in each step of conducted the evaluation of their program - contributing, analyzing, and interpreting the data; proposing program changes from their findings; and designing subsequent evaluations. While the approach was initially developed to engage youth in evaluation, it can be valuable for participants of any age. Session attendees will leave with a series of interactive approaches to evaluation that they can implement in their own programs.  
Speakers
avatar for Liz Sparks

Liz Sparks

4-H in Pima County, Arizona
Liz Sparks is an Assistant Agent in 4-H in Pima County, Arizona and the faculty lead for Tucson Village Farm, a seed-to-table program designed to reconnect young people to a healthy food system, teach them how to grow and prepare fresh food, and empower them to make healthy life choices... Read More →
avatar for Alex Kolnacki

Alex Kolnacki

Youth Development Program Coordinator, 4-H Maricopa County, Arizona
Alex Kolnacki serves as the 4-H Youth Development Program Coordinator in Maricopa County, Arizona where she leads the Healthy Living Ambassador Program and the FARMacy Facilitator Program. She holds a degree in Family and Human Development from Arizona State University and brings... Read More →
avatar for Rachel Leih

Rachel Leih

Research Scientist, University of Arizona
Rachel Leih is also a Research Scientist with the CRED team at the University of Arizona. Her background is in public health (MPH, University of Arizona) and education (M.Ed, Marquette University), and prior to working in research and program evaluation she worked in a variety of... Read More →
avatar for Madeleine deBlois

Madeleine deBlois

University of Arizona
Madeleine deBlois is a Research Scientist with the Community Research, Evaluation, and Development (CRED)Team in the Norton School of Human Ecology at the University of Arizona. She holds a doctorate in SocialEpidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health and an M.S. in Elementary... Read More →
Tuesday June 3, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm EDT
Poplar

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