Thursday, March 15th at 8:00 pm ET/ 5:00 pm PT the Health Communication, Health Literacy, & Social Science Tweet chat welcomes Erin
Aagesen from Health Literacy Wisconsin! Erin will discuss the "nuts and bolts" of how to do a simple community-based program
evaluation.
Erin
Aagesen, MS, MPH is the Health Literacy Coordinator at
Health
Literacy Wisconsin, a division of Wisconsin Literacy, Inc. She manages
statewide health literacy interventions in partnership with Wisconsin
Literacy’s 63 member literacy agencies, community-based agencies and health
care organizations throughout Wisconsin.
Erin
earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature (2004) from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. She began her career as a writer and editor
for the health care and insurance industries. Seeking to become an advocate for
health care consumers, Erin earned master’s degrees in Life Sciences
Communication (2009) and Public Health (2010) from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, with an emphasis on health communication for vulnerable
populations. She completed her capstone project with Egal Shidad, a program
evaluation of a Somali media project in Minneapolis and St. Paul that
emphasizes first-person storytelling to improve community health outcomes. Erin
joined Wisconsin Literacy in 2010.
Erin serves as the chair of the Wisconsin Public Health Association’s Marketing and Communications Committee and is a member of the Southwest/South Central Wisconsin Regional Health Literacy Committee.
Erin serves as the chair of the Wisconsin Public Health Association’s Marketing and Communications Committee and is a member of the Southwest/South Central Wisconsin Regional Health Literacy Committee.
Participants are encouraged to explore the links below prior to the discussion:
A quick overview of the project: http://www.healthliteracywisconsin.org/article.jsp?id=273
A 3-minute video highlighting the preliminary results of the project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeUs77fK7dQ&feature=share
An excellent resources page, including lots of program evaluation tools and tips, from the University of Wisconsin-Extension: http://www.uwex.edu/ces/pdande/evaluation/index.html
All of the resources can be overwhelming, so I recommend beginners start with the, "Planning a Program Evaluation" worksheet, which you can link to from the page above.
