Evaluating Your Intervention
Many 'copmi' interventions are provided to families across Australia each year. However, very little hard evidence about the effectiveness of 'copmi' interventions is available. 'Evaluating your intervention' aims to address this gap by helping program planners and facilitators to:
- Understand what makes a good evaluation
- Select and use an evaluation tool that suits their interventions.
Why evaluate your 'copmi' intervention?
- To add to the pool of evidence about the 'copmi' approach
- To help you find out what is and isn't effective
- To assist you to plan future interventions and apply for funding.
How to evaluate your 'copmi' intervention?
If you are new to planning an evidence-based program, intervention or research, you may find Planning and implementing evidence based practice useful. It outlines the key points to consider, and provides links to further information and resources.
Once you have implemented a planned intervention, you can look at ways to evaluate its success.
- Evaluation relies on knowing the outcomes and goals of a project and testing them against results.
- Effective evaluation comes from measurable data and clear objectives.
This 'Evaluating your intervention' resource will help you plan and implement an effective evaluation.
Resources to help you evaluate your program
The links below will give you technical help to evaluate your 'copmi' program. These links reflect the key 'copmi' intervention and program areas. For example, Young people' provides technical information about concepts suchas self esteem and resilience. The 'Parents/Carers/Families' link provides information about parenting and family functioning and the 'Workforce' and 'Community' links provide information about workforce measures and social inclusion. The technical information within each concept focuses on things such as definitions, theory behind the concept, how the concept is employed in other 'copmi' programs and where you can obtain the questionnaire, scale or survey to measure that concept. Click on the link to the program area that you are interested in:
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