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Evaluation of a Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child program in Milwaukee Public Schools


Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Julie Capell, MS, CPH, Planning Council, IMPACT, Inc., Milwaukee, WI
This session will describe the logic model, tools and methods used in evaluating the implementation of a coordinated school health project.  In the 2014-15 school year, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin (CHW) re-vamped existing Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) efforts in nine high-need, under-resourced public schools in Milwaukee.  All schools in the district are required to implement the WSCC model, however the rates of implementation have been low due to lack of resources. To increase the fidelity of implementation, CHW brought in Washington State-based non-profit Whole Schools and to evaluate the project’s progress, CHW partnered with locally-based IMPACT Planning Council.  Evaluation activities were carried out at two levels: 1) at the individual school level each School Wellness Team was assisted in creating measures for their school’s wellness plans; and 2) at the program level the WSCC implementation process was documented and replicability, expansion and sustainability of the effort were evaluated.  The evaluation team also created tools for CHW to use going forward to continue collecting specific measures annually.  The information from this session can easily be applied to any school district in the country wanting to evaluate a Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child program.

Learning Areas:

Administer health education strategies, interventions and programs
Conduct evaluation related to programs, research, and other areas of practice
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs

Learning Objectives:
List typical short- and long-term outcomes for a Whole School Whole Community Whole Child program Identify tools and methods used to evaluate a Whole School Whole Community Whole Child program at the individual school level. Describe a process for evaluating the replicability, expansion and sustainability of a Whole School Whole Community Whole Child program Identify tools and methods that can be used to evaluate a Whole School Whole Community Whole Child program across schools.

Keyword(s): Evaluation, Wellness

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have more than twenty years of experience developing, implementing and evaluating programs. I have led outcome and process evaluations for many organizations, have extensive experience with multiple qualitative and quantitative evaluation techniques. I am a member of the American Evaluation Association, have a Master of Science degree from UW-Milwaukee and a Graduate Certificate in Public Health from the UW-Milwaukee Zilber School of Public Health.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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