| In a 90 minute Roundtable session, the first
rotation uses the first 45 minutes and the second rotation uses the last 45 minutes.
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| Roundtable Rotation I:
Emergent Thoughts on Using Systems Concepts to Evaluate the Emergent Phenomena of Collaboration Development |
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Roundtable Presentation 319 to be held in the Slate Room on Thursday, Nov 6, 1:40 PM to 3:10 PM
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Sponsored by the Systems in Evaluation TIG
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| Presenter(s):
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| Ruth Mohr,
Mohr Program Evaluation and Planning,
rmohr@pasty.com
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| Abstract:
For organizations facing “wicked” problems, collaboration has frequently become the recommended solution. However, collaboratives are complex, emergent entities that are not easy or quick to develop. As complex, emergent entities, they are also not easy to evaluate in a manner that provides the type of information on a rapid turn-around basis that could be most useful for those leading, managing and participating in the development of them. This roundtable will explore the use of systems thinking to inform the evaluation of collaboration development. The starting point for this discussion will be the presenter’s previous modeling of collaboration development around a healthcare problem compared and contrasted with modeling that uses the systems concepts of perspectives, inter-relationships and boundaries. Other discussion points to be addressed include integrating collaboration participants into the “sense-making of the data” process and development of an emergent evaluation approach.
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| Roundtable Rotation II:
Community Participation in Systems Model Building: An Approach to Developmental Evaluation of a Multi-Level, Multi-Cultural Community Health Intervention |
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Roundtable Presentation 319 to be held in the Slate Room on Thursday, Nov 6, 1:40 PM to 3:10 PM
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Sponsored by the Systems in Evaluation TIG
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| Presenter(s):
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| Eve Pinsker,
University of Illinois Chicago,
epinsker@uic.edu
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| Abstract:
The complexity of evaluation of the Center for Disease Control’s current REACH US (Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health) community health initiatives, which are premised on a socio-ecological theory of change, and focus on goals for increasing empowerment and capacity at the multiple levels of local communities, policy, organizations, and coalitions affecting multi-ethnic target populations, suggests the appropriateness of a “developmental” approach. Given the mandate to support empowerment and involvement of the target populations in posing solutions to health inequity, it also is clear that development of logic models for each initiative should involve a broad range of stakeholders, including at the grassroots level. In 2007, three REACH initiatives in Chicago focused on diabetes in African-American and Latino populations were funded. The lead evaluator for two of these initiatives chose to use qualitative systems model building, with stakeholder participation, using tools modified from systems dynamics and soft systems approaches.
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