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Continuing the Journey to Reposition Culture and Cultural Context in Evaluation Theory and Practice
Racial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity has become of global importance in places where many never would have imagined. Increasing diversity in the U.S., Europe, Africa, New Zealand, and Asia strongly suggests that a homogeneity-based focus is rapidly becoming an historical artifact. Therefore, culturally responsive evaluation (CRE) should no longer be viewed as a luxury or an option in our work as evaluators. The continued amplification of racial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity and awareness among the populations of the U.S. and other western nations insists that social science researchers and evaluators inextricably engage culturally responsive approaches in their wo...
Review of the Delivery of Restorative Justice in Family Violence Cases by Providers Funded by the Ministry of Justice
" ... The objectives of the review were to describe the nature and extent of the delivery of restorative justice in family violence cases across the restorative justice programmes operating at five sites including the following : how selection of cases occurs, assessment of appropriateness of each referral, detail of the restorative justice processes, safety of participants, outcomes for individuals (both victim and offender) from the processes eg. participation in therapeutic programmes, sentencing outcomes, etc.) ..."--Executive summary.
Fundamental Issues in Evaluation
Providing state-of-the-art perspectives on what evaluation is, its purpose, and how to ensure it is done well, this book brings together major evaluation researchers from a variety of social and behavioral science disciplines. Each chapter identifies a fundamental issue facing the field today; considers its implications for theory, method, practice, or the profession; and explores one or more approaches to dealing with the issue. Among the topics addressed are the nature of expertise in evaluation, how to build a better evidence base for evaluation theory, promoting cultural competence in evaluation, how to synthesize evaluation research findings, ways to involve stakeholders in decision making, and much more.
Māori Perspectives of Intensive Response
''Intensive Response is a new approach being developed by Oranga Tamariki with Māori and Pacific organisations and the wider community sector to better support tamariki to be safe at home with their whānau/family. Intensive Response addresses a need to "improve the support to whānau who are at risk of having their tamariki taken into care." The desire for the programme is that with better support, "more tamariki and whānau can stay together and thrive." Intensive Response is connected to a wider change programme within Oranga Tamariki and complements and furthers the organisation's strategic goals''--Page 7.
Wise Practices
This volume explores the relationship between Indigenous self-determination - specifically practices of law and governance - and Indigenous social and economic development.
Preventing Intimate Partner Violence
This book brings together an international collection of researchers and practitioners from a range of fields--including sociology, social work, psychology, law, public health and medicine, and victims services and advocacy--to examine promising, innovative strategies and programs for preventing intimate partner violence (IPV). The interdisciplinary contributions both discuss findings from evaluations of current IPV prevention programs and identify gaps in knowledge, paying particular attention to the needs of underserved groups like racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants and refugees, and members of LGBTQ communities. Among the many issues addressed are primary prevention programs that ta...
Evaluation as a Tool for Research, Learning and Making Things Better
This book is one of the first of its kind to bring together a variety of perspectives on evaluation from a multidisciplinary international perspective. The book, with its content derived from leading experts in their chosen fields of practice, illustrates the potential of evaluation to demonstrate the impact and efficiency of social interventions. Examples are given of comparative effectiveness research, realist evaluation, and systematic reviews, as well as of holistic and authentic evaluation, the use of advisory groups, and qualitative needs assessment. The volume also presents some special evaluation tools used by national governments and which are used to influence a variety of professi...
Indigenous Pathways Into Social Research
The life stories included here present the journeys of over 30 indigenous researchers from six continents and many disciplines, including the challenges and oppression they have faced, their strategies for overcoming them, and how their work has produced more meaningful research and a more just society.
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