Evaluation Resource Institute
Programs and Services
Whether you might need an on-site training, coaching on how to analyze your evaluation data or external evaluation, the ERI provides a full range of evaluation services which may be customized to your organization’s needs.
Training
A range of training services are available for any of the ERI’s evaluation phases, and can be developed to suit your audience, time constraints, and/or program content area. Frequently requested training topics include:
- Creating an Evaluation Plan
- Developing and Using Logic Models
- Program Survey Development
- Developing a Culture of Evaluation in your Organization
Training services may be provided at your organization, program site, or at ICVP’s Evaluation Resource Institute.
Technical Assistance and Coaching
Individualized technical assistance and on-site coaching is available to assist organizations to design and implement evaluations tailored to the specific needs of their program. Technical assistance services are provided by scholar practitioners, whose role is to provide skill-building and evaluation resources to strengthen the organization’s capacity.
Our scholar practitioner staff has worked with agencies on a variety of issues including how to plan an evaluation, to develop or locate data collection tools, to implement the evaluation, to analyze information, and to present evaluation finding to multiple audiences.
Training Series
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The Evaluation Resource Institute provides a standardized training series on for those interested in assessing their initiatives. Because our goal is to build the capacity of practitioners to evaluate their own programs, these interactive workshops emphasize practical information about evaluation that participants can take back to their own agencies.
Examples of workshops offered include:
- Evaluation Basics: How to Evaluate Your Violence Prevention Program
- Designing Effective Survey and Questionnaires.
- Making Sense of Your Data Communicating Evaluation Findings
To be added to our mailing list to receive information on future training programs, please call (312) 986-9200.