Program Development & Evaluation Services
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Full cycle program development and program evaluation services for non-profits, including academic institutions, ensures your invested resources are achieving the best possible outcomes for clients. With over 15 years of experience in the design and delivery of health, social service and educational programs, we’ll work to blend traditional program development methods with contemporary approaches that centre diversity, equity, and inclusion in your programs. Using services ranging from program audits and short pilot program developing, to long term development and evaluation work, we’ll ensure that your program wraps around the people and communities you work with to meet them where they’re at.
Needs Assessments
How do you determine what your community actually needs? By employing a diverse range of techniques and methods, your needs assessments will be conducted systematically and efficiently, often incorporating other assessment types to provide a comprehensive understanding of the situation. These types may include organizational assessments (such as SWOT and SOAR), workforce assessments that assist in planning human resource recruitment, retention, and deployment, marketing assessments, as well as environmental scans in health and social service programs.
Program Development
Program Development refers to many things, including program planning, reviews, audits, and redesigns. The goal is to see programs as cyclical in nature and to incorporate data and evidence from multiple sources into the program itself. Using Program Science principles and methods, we'll identify where your program is in the cycle and where it needs to go to ensure its effectiveness and alignment with your client’s needs. Inviting program development into your non-profit work enriches the quality of your programs and services while building capacity within your team; it is always a worthwhile investment.
Program Evaluation
Program evaluation is a highly theoretical yet simple practice of asking the right questions to better understand how your program affects change. The process and outcome of good program evaluation help your organization and your community improve, adapt, and evolve. With Masters level training in program evaluation in health and social services, and support as a member of the Canadian Evaluation Society, you will receive the assistance your program evaluation needs, whether it is big or small.