Final Evaluation

The Hope House provides services to clients that are affected or infected with HIV and poverty. The following services are provided: free HIV testing, childcare, and social services. Hope House offers free HIV testing to anyone 18 years or older, and they provide two options for testing. An individual has the option to receive a free in person test, or they have the option to receive a free take home test. Tests are confidential and administered by a local social worker (Hope, House 2021).

According to Hope House 2021, childcare is offered to children ages 6 weeks to 5 years. The childcare center is open Monday through Friday 7:30am-3:30pm. The center is accredited through NAEYC (National Association for the Education of Young Children), and the teachers all have an associate degree or higher in early childhood education or an education-related field. The specific program area that I will be focusing on will be the childcare area. Childcare is important in ensuring that the child is growing socially, emotionally, and developmentally.

The childcare program area ensures that the children are learning from age appropriate curriculums, and it also ensures that the children are developing in their gross motor skills. Hope House offers a preschool service to clients as well. Hope House began their preschool program in 1995 as a three-day week program to better serve children and prepare them for kindergarten success. Preschool services are now offered to 20 children Monday through Friday from 7:45am until 3:30pm. The preschool is also NAEYC (National Association for the Education of Young Children) accredited (Hope House, 2021).

The final services offered is social services. The social services program offers a variety of services for adult clients living with HIV. Services include: trauma services, emergency services, life skills education/assistance, mental health services, and health living services. Social services are available for individual appointment only. There are also food pantry services provided Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday 8:30am-12:00pm, and 4:00pm-6:00pm (Hope House, 2021).

In order to receive services, clients must be 18 years of age or older, and referrals should be made through a medical case manager. I will be evaluating the childcare area of the program to ensure that the Hope House is receiving adequate funding and resources to provide quality childcare services to their clients. I will also be evaluating if hired staff is capable of providing appropriate educational services through this program. I will evaluate effectiveness of learning material that is utilized as well as the quality of the education program.

I would also like to evaluate if the staff is providing sufficient weekly curriculums that specifically address the learning needs of the children. I will evaluate whether or not the funding/donations received are appropriate and adequate enough to provide appropriate learning materials such as books, supplies, furniture, etc. Lastly, there will be an evaluation of the community partners that collaborate with Hope House to ensure that those partners are providing an adequate amount of needed resources. There will also be an evaluation to determine if any additional community partners can be utilized and implemented to provide additional resources.

References

House, H. (2021, n.d.). Hope House. Hope house website. retrieved from

https://www.hopehousememphis.org/how-we-serve/social-services

Resources/Inputs	Activities	Outputs	Outcomes/Short-Term Goals	Impact/Long-Term Goals
What resources are needed to make the program operate? (e.g. staff time; volunteer hours; planning time; money; knowledge; expertise; materials; equipment; space; supplies; partners)	What are your planned activities? How will you accomplish them? (e.g. what the program does; what will be developed, what will be delivered, what will be facilitated; partnerships)	What products or services will be delivered? (e.g. how many X will be developed; how many Y will be delivered; how many Z will be facilitated, etc.)	How will the products/services impact participants? (e.g. awareness; knowledge; attitudes; skills; opinions; behavior, participation, retention; social action; policies…think of these in terms of the data you have, what can you use that will show outcome)	What is the larger benefit of the program on organizations, communities, and systems? (e.g. think of these as long-term goals, change in conditions, social change; economic change; civic change; environmental change, etc.)
Public and private funding-Funding sources can come from grant funding or private donations from individuals or community partners (ex: 100,00/yr operating budget).	Fundraising/Donations to assist with the purchase of classroom supplies, furniture, learning materials, etc.	Number of children who participate in high quality learning. Purchase and provide educational activities, books, games, and supplies conducive for learning.	Better quality educational programs.	Increased academic proficiency.
Staffing: 2 Full-time childcare staff for each classroom. 3 Part-time volunteers/1 full-time volunteer.	Trained and licensed teachers to execute age appropriate learning.	Weekly curriculums and learning plans will be developed and implemented for the classrooms.	Increased number of learners with improved reading and gross motor skills.	Improved learning outcomes.
Community partnerships and public relations.	Food donations and community partnership with the Memphis food bank and other local partners.	Weekly food distribution provided for meals and snacks.	Health meals/snacks provided daily.	Improved health and access to nutritious foods.