2020 Data and Evaluation Support and Workshops
Organizations working in community often have significant data and evaluation needs as part of their work. In partnership with Communities of Opportunity and Best Starts for Kids , Communities Count will help provide relevant, equity-focused technical assistance to support and equip our community partners to meet those needs.
In 2020, Communities Count staff will be providing technical assistance through a series of data and evaluation workshops, along with available one-on-one assistance to organizations/coalitions with specific data or evaluation needs. For an example of the approach taken toward shared learning, please see a recent blog post by Public Health Seattle & King County evaluator Nicole Turcheti on “Tools for evaluators conducting participatory and empowerment evaluations.”
Workshops planned for early 2020 include the events listed below. Workshops are open to all King County community members. Please note that if a workshop’s time or location does not work for you, you can request to schedule a workshop with us if you have five or more attendees by emailing CommunitiesCount@kingcounty.gov. You can also check out content from past Communities Count workshops on the trainings page of our website.
Community based organizations in King County can also request one-on-one data and evaluation consultation for specific projects by emailing CommunitiesCount@kingcounty.gov with your request.
Communities Count Winter 2020 Data and Evaluation Workshop Schedule
Evaluation Basics: Participatory processes to collect and analyze data
Learn skills to successfully evaluate of one of your strategies, projects or programs. Participants will learn about different evaluation designs, what participatory and equitable evaluations can look like, data collection strategies and how to incorporate evaluation practices in their work.
1/16/2020, 1-3 pm, Kent Regional Library
Sign up here: Evaluation Basics
Developing your own community survey
Good survey design can help you gather rich information and can help mitigate bias. Join us to learn how to design a survey or feedback form that is clear, effective and fits your strategy or program and learning needs.
2/27/2020: 1-3pm, White Center Library
Sign up here: Developing your own community survey
What is a process evaluation?
Want to understand if your program’s activities have been implemented as intended and what they have resulted in? Learn the language and design of process evaluation and strengthen your skills in tracking and reporting on program activities.
3/4/2020: 1-3pm, Kent Regional Library
Sign up here: What is a process evaluation?
Finding & Using Data to tell Stories
Learn where to find relevant data and how to use that data to describe the context in which you’re working, the impact of a policy, or to develop a story about your community.
2/13/2020: 10:30am-12:30 pm, Rainier Beach Branch Library
Sign up here: Finding & Using Data to tell Stories
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3/12/2020: 1-3pm, White Center Library
Sign up here: Finding & Using Data to tell Stories
Future workshops will cover other ways to collect and analyze data, and more ways to use data to support a point of view or narrative. All workshops will be interactive with opportunities for practice. Future workshops include the following.
Getting the most out of focus groups and interviews. Content will include what makes a good focus group, what to do before, during, and after the focus group, when and how to obtain consent, how to protect confidentiality, anonymity, how to analyze focus group data, and review common questions and approaches.
Data analysis using excel & google sheets, introductory level for those with no experience will cover how to enter and sort data, how to run basic descriptive information, and best practices for storing and protecting your data, with time to ask questions and practice (please bring a laptop).
Data analysis using excel & google sheets, intermediate level for those with some data experiences will cover similar topics but more quickly, assuming people have a basic familiarity with data spreadsheets, to enable more practice and review of more analysis techniques.
Visualizing data will review how to effectively share data, how to show relationships between data elements, how to ensure readable and understandable products, and the importance of putting data into historical and social context.
Collaborative data interpretation will be for those who have data and want to work with a group to turn data into action. Examples include data from program implementation that staff want to use to improve services, or population data on inequities that participants want to mobilize around.
Please remember that you can request to schedule a workshop at a time and place convenient to you if you have five or more attendees. Community based organizations in King County can also request one-on-one data and evaluation consultation for specific projects by emailing CommunitiesCount@kingcounty.gov.