WV SPF SIG Reports/Evaluation

Implementation Plans

Internal Evaluation Reports

External Qualitative Evaluation Reports

Dissertations Qualitative Evaluation Summative Reports Qualitative Evaluation Quarterly Reports
  • 5/2004 Notes from the Field
    • Focus On- State prevention partnership: inclusiveness of stakeholders, teambuilding among stakeholders, shared vision, leadership, federal distribution of SPF-SIG funds.

  • 4/2005 Notes from the Field
    • Focus On- State prevention partnership: process, honoring people, relationships among partners, shared vision, resources, sustainability and replicability; State prevention staff: collaborative leadership.

  • 10/2005 Notes from the Field
    • Focus On- State prevention partnership: communication, balance (flexibility/accountability, relationships within/outside the partnership, relationships/outcomes)..

  • 1/2006 Notes from the Field
    • Focus On- State prevention partnership: role/relationships (with state staff), roles/participation (within state partnership), shared vision of goals/mission; State prevention staff: roles and responsibilities, community-based staff roles; Community-based prevention: community informational meetings, purpose of planning grants, community collaboration, Regional Learning Opportunities (RLOs).

  • 4/2006 Notes from the Field
    • Focus On- State prevention staff: communication with each other (input, timing), organization/culture; Community-based prevention: Regional Learning Opportunities (experimental, open participation, community-based staff role), non-participation in SPF-SIG by some counties, future funding concerns, resistance, engagement, financial reimbursement, excitement.

  • 7/2006 Notes from the Field
    • Focus On- Community-based state staff & community-based prevention (project directors and local prevention partners): SPF-SIG size and scope (big, different, varied), Regional Learning Opportunities, coalition building (successes, challenges), changing role of community-based state staff, parallel nature of state and county development.

  • 10/2006 Notes from the Field
    • Focus On- State prevention staff: changing roles (higher value, sense of closeness, not experts, exhaustion); Community-based prevention (project directors, local prevention partners): SPF-SIG Phase II funding responses (sustainability concerns, increasing optimism, diversity of funding sources), growth in county prevention partnerships.

  • 1/2007 Notes from the Field
    • Focus On- State prevention staff: community-based staff perspective (timing, trust), learning/co-learning; Community-based prevention: hope vs. doubt, necessary skills, relationships, Regional Learning Opportunities (evaluation team’s beliefs, intentions, actions, outcomes, learning, lingering questions).

  • 4/2007 Notes from the Field
    • Focus On- State prevention staff: accountability to various stakeholders, communication, SPF-SIG “under construction,” trust issues, state-wide staffing demands; Community-based prevention: Regional Learning Opportunities (mixed results, successful learning, more guidance/substance needed, effectiveness of facilitators), county implementation grants (too small, lack of multi-year funding).

  • 6/2007 Notes from the Field
    • Focus On- State prevention partnership: general assessment, involvement (levels, benefits/barriers, satisfaction with roles, satisfaction with influence, satisfaction with fairness of decision-making, extent of voice), assessment of strengths (partnership formation and state-level processes, impact on local capacity development, effective state prevention staff), assessment of shifting concerns (full engagement of all members, trust and collaboration, sustaining momentum/enthusiasm/excitement/involvement, partnership sustainability, communication beyond the partnership), partnership vision (state-wide comprehensive plan, narrow versus broader view of prevention).

  • 10/2007 Notes from the Field
    • Focus On- Progress report

  • 1/2008 Notes from the Field
    • Focus On- State prevention staff: general assessment of SPF-SIG, level of involvement, role satisfaction, state staff influence, relationship with state prevention partnership, fairness of decision making concerning SPF-SIG, staff voice, state staff strengths (right staff at the table, focus on learning, scope/complexity of project), state staff concerns (communication, county-level participation and perceptions, sustainability), vision (positive and sustainable outcomes, broader prevention focus, increased visibility).

  • 4/2008 Notes from the Field
    • Focus On- Community-based prevention (project directors): state staff helpfulness, usefulness of Regional Learning Opportunities, satisfaction with SPF-SIG decision-making, voice in SPF-SIG process, SPF-SIG influence on community, other funding sources besides SPF-SIG, involvement of local education entity, local SPF-SIG strengths (new/strengthened coalitions, focus on local community needs, broad focus on prevention), local SPF-SIG concerns (funding decisions, communication, sustainability, prevention as a concept).

  • 1/2009 Notes from the Field
    • Focus On- Community-based prevention (local prevention partners): passion/commitment, teamwork, youth focus, importance of resources.

  • 4/2009 Notes from the Field
    • Focus On- State prevention partnership & state prevention staff: data-driven decision making, environmental strategies, Perdue Pharma settlement funds, state prevention partnership; Evaluation Team: reflections on emerging data-based community change model (people, engagement, vision, resources, change/growth).

  • 7/2009 Notes from the Field
    • Focus On- Community-based prevention (project directors): local coalition structures and operating procedures - informal (small county/coalition informality, informality within pre-existing coalitions), evolving toward formal (benefits of formality, readiness for formality); local coalition member engagement (core members within less active membership, youth); ownership of local prevention partnership, relationship with other SPF-SIG players (state partnership, state prevention staff, community-based state staff), environmental strategies (understanding, support/resistance, transitioning, local staff understanding and role, success stories); state comprehensive strategic plan - positive views, concerns (how funding decisions will be made, increased competition); evaluation and assessment (weak at local level, difficulty in measuring environmental strategies, state staff assistance with evaluation); sustainability (funding, people, training, SPF).; Evaluation Team: reflections on emerging data-based community change model (people, engagement, vision, resources, change/growth).

  • 10/2009 Notes from the Field


  • 1/2010 Notes from the Field


  • 4/2010 Notes from the Field


SPF SIG National Cross-Site Evaluation Reports