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Session Title: Feminist Evaluation and Gender-Specific Programs
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Multipaper Session 897 to be held in SEGUIN B on Saturday, Nov 13, 2:50 PM to 4:20 PM
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Sponsored by the Feminist Issues in Evaluation TIG
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| Chair(s): |
| Linda Thurston,
National Science Foundation, lthursto@nsf.gov
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| Discussant(s): |
| Jan Middendorf,
Kansas State University, jmiddend@ksu.edu
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Feminist Evaluation: Practical Application in Nonpractical Situations
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The presentation shares a practical understanding of how feminist evaluation resulted in strengthening more traditional and mainstreamed evaluation approaches in a context where LBGT stakeholders were often overlooked. A case narrative is provided that demonstrates how using a feminist driven approach allowed for an evaluator to surmount the barriers and constraints that she faced in the evaluation and how this mixed approach resulted in useful and used evaluation findings.
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Co-occurring Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders: Does Gender Matter?
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| Kathryn A Bowen, Centerstone Research Institute, kathryn.bowen@centerstone.org
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This paper discusses the evaluation of Project for Recovery, Encouragement and Empowerment. Project FREE provides community-based treatment/recovery services for adults with substance abuse disorders or a co-occurring substance abuse/mental health disorder and involvement in justice systems. Treatment emphasizes client engagement through education and therapeutic alliance and complemented by recovery support services. Some clients are enrolled in Seeking Safety simultaneously. Seeking Safety helps clients understand both their mental illness and substance abuse and why they so frequently co-occur; teaches safe coping skills that apply to both; explores the relationship between the two disorders in the present (e.g., using substances to cope with flashbacks); helps clients understand that healing from each disorder requires attention to both. The intent of this evaluation was to assess differences in outcomes among women with PTSD and co-occurring mental health/substance abuse disorders enrolled in treatment as usual with women enrolled in Project FREE treatment protocols and Seeking Safety.
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Meta-evaluations of HIV/AIDS Prevention Intervention Evaluations in Sub Saharan Africa With Specific Emphasis on Implications for Women and Girls
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| Tererai Trent, Western Michigan University, tererai.trent@heifer.org
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Despite numerous attempts by international agencies to halt the spread of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), nowhere has the impact of HIV/AIDS been felt more acutely than among women and girls in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). SSA women account for 59% of adults over the age of 15 living with HIV/AIDS and 76% of those 15-24 who are infected [UNAIDS], 2007).
The evidence on gender disparities in infection rates is indisputable; there is an urgent need to identify what is missing in HIV/AIDS prevention interventions: What is the evidence base upon which programs are grounded? Program evaluations should influence and inform policy and funding and provide a critical feedback mechanism for the design of HIV interventions that work for girls and women. This presentation will explore the actual HIV/AIDS prevention evaluation practices by bilateral and multilateral agencies in Sub Sahara and the implications for women and girls.
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