This fall, Kirsten has begun to work with Youth Frontiers, a Twin Cities based non-profit providing retreats to students and educators. Kirsten is consulting on the organizational process for surveying student participants in their Kindness, Respect, and Courage retreats. This school year Kirsten will be administering online surveys, generating reporting templates, strategizing to boost response rates, and reporting on survey data to Youth Frontiers staff, schools, and other stakeholders.
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Kirsten is conducting an Evaluation / Needs Assessment with ZOOM House, a non-profit housed in an apartment building in South Minneapolis providing Permanent Supportive and Affordable Housing. This project will be heavily focused on interviews with residents of ZOOM as well as staff and service providers. The data gathered in interviews will be used to help build a collaborative Program Theory and determine what resources at ZOOM are best helping residents grow and feel at home, and therefore should continue to be invested in.
Kirsten will be conducting an evaluation of support groups and home visits, which are part of the family services department of CornerHouse. In 2016, this evaluation will particularly focus on the impact of Mind-Body techniques being incorporated in support groups and the home visit program, as provided for in new grants secured by CornerHouse.
The evaluation plan for the year includes phone and paper surveys, group interviews, and analysis of pre- and post- measures for instruments looking at parental stress and protective factors. Kirsten Anderson, in partnership with Brianna McMichael are working on a goal attainment evaluation of the Northside Supportive Housing for Families, a unique supportive housing model run by Alliance Housing, Inc. in Minneapolis.
The next nine months will involve working with Alliance Housing staff in conducting a historical context review, review of existing data, and conducting and analyzing multiple stake-holder interviews. Brianna McMichael, MPH and Kirsten L. Anderson LLC conducted an evaluation of the Americorps experience for the Together We Prepare program in Michigan. The process involved crafting an interview protocol with the program director to focus on the impacts of an Americorps experience, what could be improved for supervisors and members, and what were the most effective characteristics of members, supervisors, and the relationships between the two.
Kirsten L. Anderson, L.L.C. along with Brianna McMichael, MPH are currently conducting an evaluation of the great work that the Animal Humane Society's community outreach team is doing in Frogtown and East St. Paul.
We will be conducting group interviews, potentially using an interactive survey exhibit at events, and working with an Evaluation Advisory Council of a broad variety of stakeholders to continue to innovate and adapt with our data collection and analysis. Check out the awesome ways they are working to impact animal welfare in St Paul! - http://www.animalhumanesociety.org/animaltracks/paws-ground Kirsten will be presenting with her colleague Gifty Amarteifio at the American Evaluation Association conference in October 2014 in Denver, Colorado. The topic of her presentation will be: A Snowball Approach to Social Network Analysis with an Evaluation of a Complex System.
I hope to see you there! In 2014, CornerHouse is piloting a new home visiting program for parental support and education. As the evaluation consultant for the program, I am creating a client feedback survey and process, group interview protocol and process, conducting group interviews with clients as well as possibly program staff, volunteers, and partners, and conducting some additional analysis on a standardized self-assessment tool.
CornerHouse has elected for a participatory evaluation process, where clients, staff, and volunteers are working in partnership with me to design and conduct the evaluation. The Absent Narratives Approach is an initiative of the Minnesota Humanities Center focused on transforming the way that educators see themselves, their classrooms, and students. Through a variety of professional development offerings and team building work, school systems are addressing the achievement gap through addressing the "relationship gap."
I am currently working as part of two teams on a project in partnership with Omaha Public Schools as well as a partnership with St Paul Public Schools here in Minnesota. The evaluations are taking a Utilization Focused Developmental Evaluation approach, based on the work and designs of Michael Quinn Patton and Nora Murphy. I will be taking the lead specifically on the multitude of surveys involved with the Omaha partnership. The IMA has been my client for about a year and a half. We have worked on several projects with individual and group interviews, surveys and more innovative methods. This evaluation data is used for presenting to their funder, the National Science Foundation, as well as gearing their program improvements.
Evaluated programs of the IMA include:
Goals of the IMA include:
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