San Francisco Parks and Recreation staff and children play with bubbles at an adaptive learning program at Eureka Valley Recreation Center.
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Section 1: Importance of Evaluating Community-Based Health and Wellness Programs Purpose: In this section, you will learn the reason why evaluation is a vital part of community-based programming and the importance of having an evaluation plan.
Learning Objectives Whether you are expanding the scope of your community-based health and wellness programming or refining ongoing programming, evaluation is an important component for documenting progress, outcomes and lessons learned. While evaluation as a practice follows the same basic steps no matter the topic, there are important considerations when evaluating a health program. To describe the topics covered in this framework, we will first start with three grounding concepts: •
Define health and wellness.
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Understand the importance of program evaluation.
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Learn the six stages of program evaluation.
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