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AIFS – How developmental evaluation can be used to develop and adapt social services programs
March 13 @ 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Presenters: Sandra Opoku (Relationships Australia Victoria) and Jessica Smart (AIFS)
Date & time: Wednesday 13 March 2024, 1:00 – 1:30PM (AEDT). Find your time zone
Evaluation is quickly becoming a necessary part of service delivery and decision making in child and family services. Traditional forms of evaluation can take a long time to produce the results needed to enhance service delivery. In contrast, developmental evaluation involves learning as you go, meaning evaluators can test new approaches, track program implementation and design initiatives that are responsive to context and need. This makes developmental evaluation useful for providers working in dynamic environments that require responsive interventions.
This webinar will explore how Relationships Australia Victoria used developmental evaluation to adapt their Men’s Behaviour Change Program (MBCP) to online delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Relationships Australia Victoria’s Lead Evaluator, Sandra Opoku, will discuss how and why she used developmental evaluation with the MBCP, the results of the evaluation and what she learned along the way.
This webinar will give you:
- an understanding of how to design and implement a developmental evaluation
- insight into what evidence a developmental evaluation can generate
- an understanding of what developmental evaluation can and can’t be used for.
This webinar will be of interest to practitioners, managers and evaluators working in child and family services.
Please note: This pre-recorded interview runs for 30-minutes. There will be no live facilitation or audience questions.