Spring Training: Evaluation: FAQ

Spring Evaluation Training Agenda

SPRING TRAINING

Family Leadership in Systems Evaluation

Spring Training for System of Care Grant Communities Funded in 2008

Ft. Worth, Texas

March 23-24, 2010

(Travel dates March 22 and 25)

AGENDA

Monday March 22^nd

• Arrive and check into hotel
• Networking on your own

Tuesday March 23^rd – 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

• Introductions and Orientation
• Translating Learning Objectives into Team Goals
• Historical Perspectives on Research and Evaluation: Culture, Mental Health Reform, and Social Change: A Group Experience
• Overview of the National Evaluation
• Analyzing Family-to-Family (and Youth-to-Youth) Connections in Your System of Care Community

Wednesday March 24^th — 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

• Applying Data to Real Life Problems
  • Educating Policy Makers
  • Impacting Health Disparities
  • Strategies for Engaging Stakeholders in national and local evaluation activities
  • Team Action Planning:  Mobilizing for the Future

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Training will provide participants the following valuable opportunities:

• Examine the context for the Federal system of care program, its national evaluation, and family-driven and youth-guided evaluation
• Examine evaluation processes with an eye on race, culture and ethnicity in order to  help build cultural and linguistic competency
• Examine health disparities and how your data may inform strategies toward their elimination
• Design practical strategies to engage families, youth, and other stakeholders in national and local evaluation activities
• Participants will complete training empowered, energized and with a plan for immediate action within their system of care communities