Strengthen your program and project impact through planning and evaluation

Want to build more effective programs and projects? Join the UC ANR Program Planning and Evaluation team, UCCE evaluation specialist Vikram Koundinya, UC 4-H evaluation coordinator Roshan Nayak, and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion for online interactive trainings. These trainings will highlight UCCE examples.

All UCCE academics, community educators and other program staff are invited to participate. New UCCE advisors, county directors and regional program supervisors are highly encouraged to attend. Taking the entire series can build one's overall program development competencies.

The 11-part series is offered a la carte so you may select individual sessions that interest you or take the complete series. The webinars will be held on Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to noon on Aug. 6 through Oct. 15.

Aug. 6: Defining Clientele & Affirmative Action Planning

Aug. 13: Improving All Reasonable Effort & Engagement with Diverse Audiences

Aug. 20: Conducting a Needs Assessment

Aug. 27: Using Delphi Method for Needs Assessment 

Sept. 3: Practical Methods to Measuring Outcomes

Sept. 10: Using Ripple Effects Mapping Method in Program Evaluation

Sept. 17: Best Practices for Developing Surveys & Basics of Sampling Methods

Sept. 24: Navigating Institutional Review Board 

Oct. 1: Methods to Analyze Surveys: Continuous Quantitative Data 

Oct. 8: Methods to Analyze Surveys: Qualitative Data

Oct. 15: Writing Strong Impact Statements

For details about each session, visit https://ucanr.edu/sites/CEprogramevaluation/Trainings.

The presentations will be recorded and posted on UC ANR Program Evaluation.

For more information about registration and logistics, contact Maria Alvarez at ANR Program Support or call (530) 750-1361. For questions about the training, contact Katherine Webb-Martinez, director of Program Planning & Evaluation, at Katherine.Webb-Martinez@ucop.edu.

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