{"id":6,"date":"2026-01-27T22:40:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/youthdevelopmenthub\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2026-01-28T00:07:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:07:43","slug":"evaluation-resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/youthdevelopmenthub\/evaluation-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluation resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>These helpful resources are free to use and available for any interested youth programs. They have been developed by partners across the country. If you have a favorite resource to share, email Celeste. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Planning<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Evaluation planning tools to come&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Needs Assessments and Collecting Feedback<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Our favorite resource for creatively soliciting feedback from stakeholders comes from Public Profit. Their <strong>Creative Ways to Solicit Feedback<\/strong> guide has 15 fun, active ways to get feedback from partners (download it at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicprofit.net\/creative-ways-to-solicit-stakeholder-feedback\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.publicprofit.net\/creative-ways-to-solicit-stakeholder-feedback\/\">their website<\/a>). Don&#8217;t miss the companion handout for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicprofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/CW_Children_Youth_Tipsheet-1.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.publicprofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/CW_Children_Youth_Tipsheet-1.pdf\">soliciting feedback from youth<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Program Quality<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For more than a decade, OCF and Ford have partnered to fund a program quality initiative that has used resources from the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumfyi.org\/weikartcenter\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/forumfyi.org\/weikartcenter\/\">Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality<\/a>. After a decade using the Oregon Youth Program Quality Assessment, the Initiative now uses the Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Youth Program Quality Assessment. Here is <a href=\"https:\/\/form.jotform.com\/ForumFYI\/sel-pqa-download\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/form.jotform.com\/ForumFYI\/sel-pqa-download\">the website<\/a> where you can download the assessment instrument from the Weikart Center. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Youth participation in evaluation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>From Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) to Zeldin&#8217;s guide on youth as evaluation partners, there is a lot of information about how to involved youth in planning and implementing a program evaluation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Helpful guides<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Our favorite resources<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Collection of Measures<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These helpful resources are free to use and available for any interested youth programs. They have been developed by partners across the country. If you have a favorite resource to share, email Celeste. Planning Evaluation planning tools to come&#8230; Needs Assessments and Collecting Feedback Our favorite resource for creatively soliciting feedback from stakeholders comes from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14927,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/youthdevelopmenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/youthdevelopmenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/youthdevelopmenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/youthdevelopmenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/youthdevelopmenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/youthdevelopmenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/youthdevelopmenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/youthdevelopmenthub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}