TY - JOUR
T1 - Empowerment Evaluation
T2 - A Case Study of Citywide Implementation Within an HIV Prevention Context
AU - Phillips ii, Gregory Lee
AU - Lindeman, Peter
AU - Adames, Christian N.
AU - Bettin, Emily
AU - Bayston, Christopher
AU - Stonehouse, Patrick
AU - Kern, David
AU - Johnson, Amy Kristen
AU - Brown, C Hendricks
AU - Greene, George J
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This article was supported by a grant from the Chicago Department of Public Health (RFP # DA-41-3350-11-2014-003).
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2018.
PY - 2019/9/1
Y1 - 2019/9/1
N2 - HIV continues to significantly impact the health of communities, particularly affecting racially and ethnically diverse men who have sex with men and transgender women. In response, health departments often fund a number of community organizations to provide each of these subgroups with comprehensive and culturally responsive services. To this point, evaluators have focused on individual interventions but have largely overlooked the complex environment in which these interventions are implemented, including other programs funded to do similar work. The Evaluation Center was funded by the City of Chicago in 2015 to conduct a citywide evaluation of all HIV prevention programming. This article will describe our novel approach to adapt the principles and methods of the empowerment evaluation approach, to effectively engage with 20 city-funded prevention programs to collect and synthesize multisite evaluation data, and ultimately build capacity at these organizations to foster a learning-focused community.
AB - HIV continues to significantly impact the health of communities, particularly affecting racially and ethnically diverse men who have sex with men and transgender women. In response, health departments often fund a number of community organizations to provide each of these subgroups with comprehensive and culturally responsive services. To this point, evaluators have focused on individual interventions but have largely overlooked the complex environment in which these interventions are implemented, including other programs funded to do similar work. The Evaluation Center was funded by the City of Chicago in 2015 to conduct a citywide evaluation of all HIV prevention programming. This article will describe our novel approach to adapt the principles and methods of the empowerment evaluation approach, to effectively engage with 20 city-funded prevention programs to collect and synthesize multisite evaluation data, and ultimately build capacity at these organizations to foster a learning-focused community.
KW - HIV prevention
KW - LGBTQ
KW - capacity building
KW - empowerment evaluation
KW - multisite evaluation
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U2 - 10.1177/1098214018796991
DO - 10.1177/1098214018796991
M3 - Article
C2 - 31885461
AN - SCOPUS:85059079302
SN - 1098-2140
VL - 40
SP - 318
EP - 334
JO - American Journal of Evaluation
JF - American Journal of Evaluation
IS - 3
ER -
