| Session Title: Assessing Coalition Building and Relationships Through Social Network Analysis |
| Expert Lecture Session 389 to be held in Palos Verdes A on Thursday, Nov 3, 1:35 PM to 2:20 PM |
| Sponsored by the Social Network Analysis TIG |
| Presenter(s): |
| Todd Honeycutt, Mathematica Policy Research, thoneycutt@mathematica-mpr.com |
| Marykate Zukiewicz, Mathematica Policy Research, mzukiewicz@mathematica-mpr.com |
| Debra Strong, Mathematica Policy Research, dstrong@mathematica-mpr.com |
| Discussant(s): |
| Tom Bartholomay, University of Minnesota, barth020@umn.edu |
| Abstract: Among the many objectives of funding a program, funders and participants want to help build relationships among those involved that could potentially last beyond the initial project funding. The Consumer Voices for Coverage program, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation initially for three years, sought to help 12 state-level consumer advocacy coalitions address health policy in their states as well strengthen the relationships among participating organizations. As part of a larger multi-mode evaluation, we used social network analysis (SNA) methods to assess the extent to which participating organizations of each coalition had worked together before the grant and how organizations communicated and worked collaboratively with each other in the first and third grant years. This presentation will describe how we used SNA for the evaluation and compare our findings on coalition building and relationships with other results from the evaluation. |