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Using Logic Models for Program Planning and Evaluation

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Using a logic model in community dental health projects
+Introduce you to logic modeling
+Describe how to develop a logic model
+Describe how the logic model can be used in program planning and evaluation of the community projects.
The Logic Model
+A picture of your project: What you are putting into the project, what you are doing, and what you are trying to achieve
+Clarifies the strategy underlying your project
The Logic model...cont.
+Builds common understanding, especially about the relationship between actions and results
+Communicates what your project is (and is not) about
+Forms a basis for evaluation
The Logic Model (Resources)
The inputs dedicated to or consumed by the project
The Logic model (Activities)
The actions that the project takes to achieve desired outcomes
The Logic model (Outputs)
The measurable products of a project's activities
The Logic model (Outcomes)
The benefits to clients, communities, systems, or organizations
The Logic Model: Different looks, additional components
+Can be a graphic, table, flow chart, narrative
+Can also include information about assumptions, external issues, theories of change
(Fundamentally, the logic model is a way to communicate what your project is about)
Before the Logic Model , clarify the project's rationale
+Continuation of existing project
+Expansion of existing project
+Existing project with modifications
+New project
The Project Rationale
Understanding of:
+the need or problem
+the nature and extent of the need or problem
+the causes of the problem and the social, economic, political and policy contexts
A project Rationale cont
+the current and past efforts to address the need or problem and lessons learned from these efforts
-Literature review
-Assessment-needs assessment
Program Goal: What is your overall aim or intended impact?
+To improve access to health care for people with limited English proficiency in the service area.
+To reduce the incidence of repeat infections and further oral hygiene problems among clients of the community health center.
Resources: What inputs are dedicated to or consumed by the project?
+Human resources: Dental hygiene students, school nurse, a program director, etc
+Facilities: Community dental clinic, school classroom, etc
+Equipment/supplies: Portable dental unit, Dental sealants, typodonts, toothbrushes
Resources continued
+Partners: "Stakeholders"-community agencies, school districts, health agencies, schools
+Technology
Activities: What is the project doing?
Think first about components:
-Outreach, training, consultation, staff development, partnership development
Activities continued
Think second about details:
+Outreach: Develop and distribute flyers, meet w/ community agencies, write articles for local newspapers, develop press packet, identify media contacts, send press packet out to media contacts
Activities: Training/Education
+Student group members develop training/education curriculum
+Provide training/education session-the implementation of your project
Outputs: What is the project producing?
+# of training/education sessions held
+ # of participants attending each session
+ # of dental sealants places
+ # of coral cancer screenings perfomed
Outcomes: What difference is the project making?
Outcomes are about change:
+New knowledge
+Increased skills
+Changed attitudes or values
+Modifies behavior/practice
+Changed conditions
Types of Outcomes
+Client/ individual
+Family/ community
+Systemic
+Organizational
Chain of Outcomes
+Short term: are the most direct results of activities and outputs, generally achievable in one year.
+Intermediate: link a program's short-term outcomes to long-term outcomes.
Chain of Outcomes-cont.
+Long term: result from the achievement of short and intermediate term outcomes and often take a longer time to achieve.
The Value of the Logic model Process
+Engages stakeholders
+Clarifies program theory and fills in the gaps
+Builds ownership of the project or program
+Builds common understanding about the program, especially about the relationship between actions and results
Using your logic model for Evaluation
Evaluation is the process of asking-and answering-questions:
+What did you do?
+How well did you do it?
+What did you achieve?
Outcome Indicators
+Indicators are the specific, measurable characteristics or changes that represent achievement of an outcome.
-Project objectives-smart
Outcome Indicators-cont
+Indicators are measurable and observable and answer the question: How will I know it?
Indicators
+Direct
+Meaningful
+Useful
+Practical to collect
+Sometimes more than one is necessary
Indicator-Objectives
(Outcome)
+Medical providers demonstrate accurate health assessment, education and prevention activities
+Increased access to primary care physicians
+Increased provider participation in network
Indicator-Objectives
(Indicator)
+#/% of medical providers observed by participating dentist to demonstrate these things accurately
+#/% increase in clients who have a PCP
+# and type of providers in network
Putting Together an Evaluation Plan
+The "what": the indicators
+The "how": the data collection instruments and evaluation design
+The "when" and the "who": the data collection plan
Using Logic Model for Grant Applications
+To describe your program-using a picture!
+To make the case for your program
+To articulate outcomes and how they connect to your program
+To articulate your evaluation
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