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Community Capacity and Evaluation
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| Presenter(s):
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| Carter Roeber, LTG Associates Inc, croeber@ltgassociates.com
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| Niel Tashima, LTG Associates Inc, partners@ltgassociates.com
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| Abstract:
The Strengthening What Works initiative is evaluating the efforts of eight grantees who are working towards preventing IPV at the primary and secondary levels. One challenge in evaluating primary prevention is the difficulty in measuring the effects of primary level interventions on the rates of IPV in a particular community. With such a complex phenomenon as IPV it is difficult to isolate the effects of a single input, such as a media campaign. Given this complexity, the grantees intervene on multiple fronts, by enhancing social networks, improving collaboration between community organizations, and building community capacity. Research has demonstrated that improvements in community capacity, a feature of all true community-based organizations, increase protective factors against IPV and other public health issues. LTG Associates is collaborating with grantees to develop the means to measure how these multiple interventions increase community capacity and provide additional protection again IPV.
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