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By following a few simple steps, you can create your own customized action plan built on the same goals, strategies, and activities that form the foundation for the Nebraska Physical Activity and Nutrition State Plan.
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Partners N Health Evaluation |
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Next week, the Nutrition and Activity for Health (NAFH) team is beginning its formal evaluation of the Nebraska Nutrition and Physical Activity State Plan and the Partners N Health partnership.
As part of this effort, the NAFH team is reaching out to you, our partners, to provide information about your satisfaction with the partnership as well as the activities and projects that you or your organization conducted or implemented in the past year.
This edition of the newsletter is designed to give you more information about this process.
The detailed Partners N Health evaluation plan of the Nebraska Physical Activity and Nutrition State Plan is available here!
Your involvement in these evaluation efforts is instrumental to the success of Partners N Health!
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What information will be collected? |
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The evaluation will include two components: the implementation evaluation and the partnership evaluation, which will both be administered through an online survey.
Implementation Evaluation
When: April
What: Report on your top 5 activities/projects that you or your organization conducted this past year (from January 2011 to April 2012) that are in line with the strategies and activities highlighted in the State Plan.
State Plan activities broadly refer to:
- Healthy Eating
- Improving availability and access to healthier foods and beverages in childcare, school, and community settings
- Promoting healthy foods and beverages in childcare and school settings
- Active Living
- Enhancing physical activity opportunities and policies in schools, workplaces, and healthcare settings
- Enhancing access to physical activity through:
- community planning and design
- integrated transportation systems
- parks and recreation
- Breastfeeding
- Enhancing support for breastfeeding and breastfeeding practices in workplaces and healthcare
If your organization is engaged in any of the following activities, please consider participating in the State Plan implementation evauation. Have you...
- Implemented campaigns, events, programs, or policies? (e.g. Complete Streets, Worksite Wellness, Safe Routes to School)
- Conducted assessments and/or revised contracts/policies? (e.g. Health Impact Assessments, worksite wellness policies)
- Educated/trained stakeholders (e.g. store owners, parents, staff, business leaders, partners)?
- Conducted advocacy activities, including raising awareness, encouraging involvement?
- Developed and disseminated educational, promotional, training materials?
- Identified resources, experts, best-practice/evidence-based models and interventions?
- Built partnerships/coalitions/networks?
- Conducted activities to obtain funding?
Partnership Evaluation
When: May
What: Give us your opinions regarding the Partners N Health partnership, structure, and operation.
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How will this benefit you? |
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The NAFH team will use this information to improve our collaboration and address your needs as well as showcase within our state and nationally what Nebraska is doing in the areas of Healthy Eating, Active Living, and Breastfeeding.
It will provide an opportunity to document your efforts and show your commitment to improving the health of all Nebraskans.
It will give you information on how many other efforts that are similar to yours occurred in your region.
With your consent, we will work with you to create a success story about your project/activities that we can highlight on the Partners N Health website.
You will have access to a formal report released in August 2012, showing aggregate information about strategies and activities implemented in the state.
Example Graph 1. Distribution of State Plan activities implemented by Partners N Health members by type of setting
Example Graph 2. Distribution of State Plan activities implemented by Partners N Health members by CDC priority goal
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Evaluation is "the systematic collection of information about the activities, characteristics and outcomes of the program to make judgments about the program, improve program effectiveness and/or inform decisions about future program development" (Patton, 1997, p. 23).
Patton, M.Q. (1997). Utlization focused evaluation: The new century text. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. |
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Evaluation provides an opportunity to
- Identify and share the strengths and challenges in planning, developing, and implementing interventions
- Determine the level of policy, environment, and system changes in Nebraska
- Be accountable to program stakeholders and funders
- Inform decision-making, document successes, attract potential partners, and obtain more funding
- Share your story
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