The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA

Abstract #58668

Zoe Cardoza Clayson, ScD¹, Celia Graterol, MPH¹, and Emma V. Sanchez, MPH². (1) Department of Health Education, San Francisco State University, 6 Locksley Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122, 415-338-2318, zoeclay@sfsu.edu, (2) School of Public Health, Harvard University, 347 Fern Street, San Francisco, CA 94109

Over the past year the authors have invented and used the ProLogic Map, an innovative web-based planning and evaluation system in a variety of large, multi-site community initiative evaluations they have conducted including The California Endowment’s Diabetes Strategic Grants and Welcome Back Initiatives and the Marin Community Foundation’s Pathways: Latino Health Access Initiative. This system, called the ProLogic Map, is a real time analysis and data collection system that incorporates a user-friendly approach involving stakeholders as co-developers at the front end of the process. This web-based approach supports strategic and program planning, evaluation, community assessment, and policy development in philanthropy and the non-profit sector both domestically and internationally. It organizes the information, both at the contextual and intervention levels, in such a way that it is available to stakeholders in a matter of a couple of clicks of the mouse. It does not substitute for traditional evaluation and strategic planning approaches but incorporates them together in a new, dynamic way that enhances real time decision-making. This easy to use approach supports democratic participation in the evaluation process by engaging all stakeholders including funders and line staff alike in the ProLogic Map development. At the same time, it ensures transparency in planning and evaluation processes while ensuring client confidentiality through password protection. The presenters will demonstrate the design, implementation processes, outcomes and impacts of three multi-site initiatives, Diabetes Strategic Grants, Welcome Back, and Pathways, using the ProLogic Mapand discuss implications for policymakers of this information on demand system.

Learning Objectives:

• -Understand how real time information on outputs and outcomes of three multi-site health and social service interventions supports decision-making.
• -Understand lessons learned in developing
• on-going electronic information exchanges within multi-cultural communities.

Keywords: Evaluation, Methodology

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I have a significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.
Relationship: Authors are inventors of Prosperitas LogicMap.