Response to Lorie q1

Lorie M. RE: Discussion 1 - Week 11

C O L L A P S E Presenting Results of an Evaluation

Keeping Families and Children in Mind is a web-based training resource for practitioners who assist families who have a parent with a mental illness (Rupert et al., 2011). In their pilot evaluation, Rupert et al. (2011), presented findings that can be shared with stakeholders. Those employees who have first-hand knowledge of these families should be considered key stakeholders that should be informed on evaluation findings. Employee workshops or other assemblies are superb places for reviewing evaluation results (Dudley, 2020).

Information Needed for the Presentation Dudley (2020) argued many stakeholders appreciate knowing the reason the evaluation was performed, what questions were asked, who was being researched, and the methods used. PowerPoint slides in a presentation will address each of these areas along with critical data findings. In the pilot evaluation by Reupert et al. (2011), the purpose of the evaluation was to understand the experiences of participants who watched the training. Methods used included qualitative and quantitative data collected from questionnaires, journals, and focus groups (Reupert et al., 2011).

Interests, Goals, and Questions

The information from the evaluation findings will be geared towards the interests of the audience. Social work colleagues that work with families may have a professional interest in this program prior to bringing it to their organization. Identifying their interests, goals, and questions they may have prior to attending the workshop can be gathered via an email survey. A type of question asked could be, what do you want to know about the evaluation and why? A PowerPoint presentation can be created with a focus on the information collected in the surveys and displayed in visual graphs. Infographics can be used to transform complex data into visually appealing graphics (Dudley, 2020). Time for discussion will be reserved at the end of the presentation. References

Dudley, J. R. (2020). Social work evaluation: Enhancing what we do (3rd ed.) Oxford University Press. Reupert, A., Foster, K., Maybery, D., Eddy, K., & Fudge, E. (2011). 'Keeping families and children in mind': An evaluation of a web-based workforce resource. Child & Family Social Work, 16(2), 192–200