NCJ Number
154839
Date Published
Unknown
Length
7 pages
Annotation
This article outlines an approach toward evaluating the effectiveness of antidrug coalition planning and implementation, results, and intermediate and potential ultimate outcomes.
Abstract
A good evaluation system provides information on impact measures (community indicators), outcome measures (community changes), and process measures (planning process, community participation, resources generated, and services). Evaluators should create a log for each community change contained in the coalition's long-range plan; the evaluation team can then cull measures from the logs. During the initial implementation phase of the coalition, results of the logs will show low rates of services provided, actions taken, or community changes; these rates should accelerate after the first year and should steadily progress thereafter. Qualitative assessment can be used to rank planned community changes by their importance to the attainment of the coalition's mission and by their feasibility.