National Health Outreach and Engagement Conference 2024

Holt, R, Graham, M, and Rawls, M.
Assessing the impact of community health programs is a critical component in program
development and refinement. Impacts experienced by program participants and educators help
curriculum developers continue to refine curricula and provide a method of sharing program
successes with stakeholders and funders. This poster presentation will describe the process of
revising and developing program evaluation survey questions and digital data collection
methods. As part of the adaptations to the system-wide program evaluation, 19 participant
evaluation instruments were developed for face-to-face community health programs including
participant demographics and other participant self-reported data. An additional 10 participant
evaluation instruments were developed for online health programs. Finally, seven educator
feedback questionnaires were developed. The seven community health programs featured in
this poster include Extension specific delivery of four nutrition and healthy food preparation
programs focusing on the following topics - diabetes management, healthy blood pressure, food
safety, and integrating new foods into meal planning; a strength training program; and two
healthy weight programs.

The poster will provide an overview of the process used to redesign the evaluation methods in
coordination with the release of a digital data collection portal. Attendees will see the steps the
presenters took to identify and align expected program outcomes with evaluation questions,
reduce participant burden, strengthen participant specific self-report evaluations, integrate agent
assessed evaluation tools, and establish consistent measures across programs as appropriate.
Through this poster, attendees will understand development processes, learn from presenters’
experience, and examine how a similar process might work for their community health
programs