NC Public Health Incubator Collaboratives

Incubator Evaluation

Map of NC with Central Partnership counties highlighted

Incubator Evaluation Services

 

CURRENT
Overall Incubator Evaluation
(based on Overall Incubator Logic Model)
 Evaluation Contract Services for 2007-2009
Components of Evaluation
  1. On-line progress reporting
    (June & January)
  2. Annual Survey
LINK TO REPORTING SYSTEM 		Components of Contract Services
  1. Training
  2. Technical Assistance
  3. Individual Incubator Evaluation*
    (Based on CDC Framework for Program Evaluation model)
*To request individual Incubator evaluation services, please complete the Evaluation Request Form and submit it to Molly Cannon.
Annual Process
  1. Review progress reports
  2. Summarize progress report data and analyze survey results

 

 Process
  1. Regional evaluation training (hosted in Northeastern, Piedmont, Western regions)
  2. NCIPH evaluation staff will respond to Technical Assistance requests
  3. Work with Incubator coordinators on identifying and evaluating Incubator projects (one per year)
Evaluation Deliverables
  1. Produce full evaluation report
  2. Produce stakeholder evaluation report
  3. Present evaluation findings to NCIPH staff and Incubator Steering Committee
Evaluation Deliverables
  1. Training evaluation summary
  2. Present data and evaluation findings to partnership

 

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Evaluation Reports

Reports include overall Incubator Evaluation Report and project-specific evaluation reports funded through a contract in the 2008-09 program year.

2009 Reports & Presentations

Overall Incubator Evaluation

2009 Overall Summary & Evaluation Report (pdf)
This report includes information collected from regular Incubator project reports (for projects funded from July 2008 to June 2009) submitted by Incubator coordinators and Partnership staff.

Evaluation Contracted Service Reports

This report, funded by the South Central and Western partnerships, provides an data from the evaluation of the CDP and BETS systems for environmental health inspection data management.

This evaluation presentation conducted for the Northeastern Partnership seeks to better understand the partnership's costs including in-kind time of HD and staff, and partnership dues, and benefits including fiscal agent overhead, administrative costs, project “costs” (seven effective projects, staff, communications, travel, marketing, etc).

2008 Reports

Overall Stakeholder Evaluation Report (pdf)
This evaluation of the FY2008 NC Public Health Incubator Collaboratives program was conducted by Molly Cannon, MPH and Mary Davis, DrPH, MSPH, at the North Carolina Institute for Public Health (NCIPH), the service and outreach arm of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health in Chapel Hill. This is the same organization that administers the Incubator process, thus the evaluation process should be considered an “internal evaluation.”

Southern Piedmont Partnership for Public Health Finance Work Group Evaluation Executive Summary (pdf)

Northwest Partnership for Public Health Family Planning Clinic Efficiency Evaluation Executive Summary (pdf)

2007 Reports

August 2005 – July 2007 Stakeholder Evaluation Report (pdf)
This evaluation of the August 2005 – July 2007 North Carolina Public Health Incubator Collaboratives program was conducted by evaluation staff, Molly Cannon, MPH and Mary Davis, DrPH, MSPH, at the North Carolina Institute for Public Health (NCIPH), the service and outreach arm of the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This is the same organization that administers the Incubator process, thus the evaluation process should be considered an “internal evaluation.”

Incubator Evaluation Survey Results Presentation 2007 (pdf)
Follow the above link to view a presentation given by NCIPH Evaluator, Molly Cannon, at the All Hands Meeting in Chapel Hill on August 14, 2007.

2005 Report

North Carolina Partnerships for Public Health: Incubate, Invest In, and Institutionalize Our Partnerships, Year One Report, 2005 (pdf)

 

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Evaluation Resources

Evaluation Training Services
In the 2008 funding year, NC Institute for Public Health staff Molly Cannon, Mary Davis, and Liz Mahanna conducted five one-day evaluation training sessions across the state to local health department staff on the CDC Framework for Program Evaluation model.

Focusing on agency program activities identified by participants the trainings involved applying the six phases of the Framework:

Engage stakeholders,
Describe the program (need, expectations, activities, resources),
Focus the evaluation design,
Gather credible evidence,
Justify conclusions, and
Ensure use and share lessons learned.

The trainings were presented for the six Incubator Partnerships between September 2008 and February 2009 in Asheville, Kannapolis, Edenton, Raleigh, and Raeford. Eighty-five individuals participated.

If interested in a similar training, please contact Evaluation Services at the information provided below.

 

Primary contacts for evaluation services include: 
Mary V. Davis, DrPH Director of Evaluation Services, NC Institute for Public Health
Molly Cannon Research Associate, Evaluation Services, NC Institute for Public Health

 

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