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Recorded presentation

Craig M. Martinez, MPH, Department of Population and Family Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 615. N. Wolfe Street, Room W4510, Baltimore, MD 21205, 410-456-3715, crmartin@jhsph.edu, Anna Maria Izquierdo-Porrera, MD, Spanish Catholic Centers, 1618 Monroe Street, Washington, DC 20010, and Fannie Fonseca-Becker, DrPH, Director, J&J Community HealthCare Scholars Program, and Sr. Research Associate, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 111 Market Place, Suite 310, Baltimore, MD 21202.

Background: The Spanish Catholic Center, a faith-based health and service agency in Washington DC, launched the Hispanic Education and Awareness of Risk for Thrombosis (HEART) Project in 2005 to screen and reduce cardiovascular risk factors among medically underserved Hispanics. As part of this initiative, the Spanish Catholic Center and the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, with funding support from the Johnson & Johnson Community Health Care Program, formed a community-academic partnership to develop a program evaluation of the HEART Project.

Methods: The community and academic partners worked collaboratively to design the HEART Program evaluation plan using a conceptual framework of program activities and impacts. Based on this framework, the partners created measures of program implementation and effectiveness, in addition to a data management system using Epi Info for data collection and analysis.

Results: As a result of the partnership, the HEART project's capacity to conduct program evaluation has increased through the utilization of specific evaluation skills that included creating conceptual frameworks of program activities, developing appropriate indicators to measure program effectiveness, in addition to data collection, management and analysis.

Conclusions: Partnerships between community organizations and academic institutions provide a valuable opportunity to increase the sustainable in-house capacity for program evaluation and to provide increased understanding of key determinates essential for the reduction of cardiovascular disease among medically underserved Hispanics.

Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participants will be able to

• Describe how community-academic partnerships can strengthen in-house capacity in program evaluation.
• Apply conceptual frameworks in program evaluation for community-based health care organizations.
• Identify publicly available software for data management, analysis and presentation.

Keywords: Partnerships, Evaluation

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No

Recorded presentation