Fresno

Local L&E Overview

The purpose of this wiki-BHC Learning Site is to collect information on local Learning and Evaluation (L&E) efforts at Building Healthy Communities (BHC) sites. This information will allow BHC sites to better understand each other’s work and to identify where to go for self-directed peer learning and exchange.

This wiki-BHC Learning site responds to input heard from local learning staff, Hub Managers, and Programs Managers that additional information is needed on evaluation strategies being used across sites to better connect and to facilitate peer learning.

The wiki site collects, stores, and shares information that can be accessed by local BHC staff for learning purposes. The hope is that local L&E teams will be able to seek out peers at other sites to exchange information on evaluation design, evaluation challenges and lessons. By facilitating this type of exchange, it is hoped that sites build evaluation capacity through peer sharing and that the wiki-site provides added value to local L&E teams and to respective BHC sites.

Directions: Local learning and evaluation staff are welcome to complete this tool. Please share information with your Hub Manager and Program Manager prior to submission. Enter your responses into the blank spaces of the below tables. It is essentially a “fill-in-the-blank” form.

For all questions with pre-defined response options, you may mark “X” in the cell that corresponds to your response or you may type additional details in the space provided. For all open-ended questions please provide as much explanation as you feel another local L&E staff member, Program Manager, or Hub Manager would need to grasp where your site is at. Please note that answers to questions 1, 2, and 3 are required and other questions are optional.

To fill out this form, log in to the site and click on the “Edit Page” icon, which looks like a pencil, in the upper right corner of this page. Then click on the information in the box you wish to edit and make any needed changes. Click “save” when finished.

Site
Fresno
Person Completing Tool
Amanda Conley, Tania Pacheco-Werner
Email Address
amanda_conley@csufresno.edu
Phone Number
559-228-2159
Date Tool Completed
7-11-16

1. Do you have an L&E team at your site?
Yes
X
No

2. Briefly describe the current L&E structure at your site.
The L&E team is comprised of the TCE Program Manager Sabina Gonzalez-Eraña, BHC Fresno Hub Manager, BHC Adovacy Specialist and staff at the Central Valley Valley Health Policy Institute. We regularly consult with action team leads, any technical assistance that aligns with hub and consultant needs. The action teams are updated at the monthly hub meeting, and as needed at the action team meetings.

3. Describe your site’s current L&E approach, including your L&E design and measurement focus should it be developed at this time.
The L&E team uses the frameworks of social determinants of health model and social ecological model of measurements of health. In addition, we also use the Value, Problem, Solution, Ask (VPSA) model as a communications strategy in our outputs to the hub and action teams. To collect social determinants data we use the Fresno County Public Health records, the Regional Opportunity Index, Migration Policy Institute Undocumented Profiles, Trust for Public Land, and California Office of Business Oversight records on licences for businesses. The hub also uses a power analysis for each team to align learning and evaluation with campaign goals and the L&E team assists as necessary. We also collaborate with outside organizations to bring necessary capacity building workshops to the region. We also use qualitative information from meetings and events and interviews with key stakeholders to complete The California Endowment reporting tools. In addition, we are using qualitative data about adjacent neighborhoods and public data to create maps.

4. Does your L&E team attend BHC-related workgroup/action team meetings, community events, etc.?
Yes
X
No

We don’t currently have an L&E team.

5. Do you have an L&E team member assigned to each BHC workgroup/action team to track ongoing work?
Yes
X
No

We don’t currently have an L&E team.

6. How often does the L&E team communicate with the Program Manager at your site? Please mark all that apply.
Weekly

Bi-weekly

Monthly
X
Quarterly

Bi-annually

Informally

Other

7. How often does the L&E team communicate with the Hub Manager at your site? Please mark all that apply.
Weekly

Bi-weekly
X
Monthly

Quarterly

Bi-annually

Informally

Other

Please indicate your level of agreement with the following four statements.
Statement
Strongly disagree
Disagree
Neither agree nor disagree
Agree
Strongly agree
8. Our L&E team has been engaged in organizational development efforts at our site.

X

9. Our site’s evaluation design has the flexibility to adapt to changes in the policy environment and our related work as needed (e.g. benchmarks and indicators can be modified as the project evolves).

X

10. Our site has tools and methods for evaluating the unique and dynamic nature of policy work.

X

11. Our site has regularly updated and/or revisited the original logic model and community action plan.

X

12. If your site has developed reports related to learning and evaluation efforts, please list the title of each report below and upload each document to the Learning Document Library at (https://sites.google.com/site/tcelearningevaluation/products-services).

Report title
Report uploaded to library? (Y/N)
Valley Health Snapshot: Fresno Race, Ethnicity, Poverty, and Health in Fresno Neighborhoods.
Y

13. What evaluation tools/assessment tools are currently being administered at your site? Please list all tools that you have used within the last 12 months in the below table and upload each tool to the Learning Document Library at (https://sites.google.com/site/tcelearningevaluation/products-services).

Name of tool
Purpose of tool
How were findings used or applied?
Report uploaded to library? (Y/N)

14. Please describe how you currently and regularly engage BHC partner agencies/orgs/grantees in evaluation efforts. If you do not, please share barriers to engaging this stakeholder group.
We attend action team meetings, monthly hub meetings, as well as hold L&E team meetings as necessary. We also meet individually with hub and action team members to help plan evaluation efforts, as well as coordinate technical support. We interview key stakeholders as they are identified by these groups for our annual TCE evaluation efforts.

15. Please describe how you currently and regularly engage residents in evaluation efforts. If you do not, please share barriers to engaging this stakeholder group.
Resident engagement has not been the focus of the L&E team. Action teams set up their BHC universities with support from the Hub.

16. Please briefly describe how you may be building evaluation capacity within your site.
Webinars, connecting Fresno site with other regional sites on shared policy issues, aiding in survey development and providing relevant evidence to current campaigns.

17. What evaluation models or frameworks have been useful for your site?
(Example FSG Collective Impact Framework, Community Action Plan)
Evaluation model or framework
How have you used it?
FSG Collective Impact Framework
Using data to continuously assess and improve understanding of the place in addition to the focusing on evaluating the strategies that are used to achieve goals.
Formative Evaluation Method Approach
We are doing an interactive evaluation of the program progress in addition to monitoring the activities as they are related to the larger goals.

18. What stage is your L&E team at with respect to the following evaluation components? Please mark the box underneath the number that best matches your assessment.

1
Forming
2
3
Developing
4
5
Mature
Planning & evaluation design

X

Implementation of the evaluation design

X

Using data for learning & continuous improvement

X
Sharing out evaluation results with diverse audiences

X

19. Please describe an evaluation-related challenge that your site is currently working to resolve. Please briefly describe the problem, your approach to finding a solution, and any additional resources or expertise that would help your site.
We are currently thinking about institutional memory and capturing sociohistorical context for future use.

20. Is there anything else you would like to share?
N/A

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