Got Data? A Step-by-Step Guide for Making Data Work for You
with presenters Kerrilyn Scott & Christina Borbely

Workshop Description
This is the second workshop in the Program Evaluation series. Collecting, entering, storing, processing, analyzing, and reporting data are essential components of accountability and program improvement. This workshop is designed to support local SDSFC program staff in your efforts to manage the data yielded by your SDFSC program evaluation. This capacity building workshop is designed to develop your ability to be an informed participant in your program’s evaluation process. The focus includes theoretical and practical knowledge and skill sets that you can apply independently or in collaboration with a program evaluator. General guidelines and strategies for data management will be presented. This includes discussion of assessment schedules and database formats. In addition, there will be detailed focus on methods for summarizing findings from the program evaluation data. Finally, the workshop will provide recommendations for effective report writing and dissemination of impact findings to your key stakeholders. These topics are the next step in Painless Program Evaluation and align with the SDFSC grant requirements.

Please come prepared to discuss specific issues and challenges, as this will aid us to better support your requests and answer your questions. Please bring copies of your evaluation logic model (i.e. proposed outcomes) and evaluation instruments (surveys, focus group questions, interviews, etc.) with you.

About the Facilitators
Kerrilyn Scott is currently the Project Director for the Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities Technical Assistance Project. She has over 13 years of progressive experience conducting research and program evaluation projects focusing on ATOD and violence prevention programming for youth and their families. Before overseeing the SDFSC Technical Assistance Project, Ms. Scott was the Project Director for a number of evaluation projects including: The California Friday Night Live Mentoring Project (involved 25 counties and approximately 200 school sites); the Friday Night Live, California Youth Council; and the Orange County On Track, Tobacco Free Communities Project. Additional positions have included: Field Coordinator for Project Youth Connect (a three-year federally (CSAP) funded cross-site project which investigated the impact of mentoring for high risk youth), Project/Training Coordinator for the School/Law Enforcement Cadre Annual School Safety and Violence Prevention Training Event (Sponsored by the California Department of Education and
the Attorney General’s office), and Training Coordinator for the Project: Youth Connect National
Mentor Training Conference (Sponsored by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention). Before joining EMT, Ms. Scott conducted school safety research as a consultant for the Florida Safe and Drug Free Schools Program and through her involvement on the Florida Safe Learning Environmental Data Project.

Christina Borbely, Ph.D. Christina is a research consultant at CARS providing technical assistance to California’s Safe and Drug Free Schools & Communities grantees. Also a member of the EMT team, Christina coordinates program evaluations for El Dorado County Office of Education and San Francisco Big Brothers Big Sisters. Prior to joining EMT/CARS, Christina was a member of the research staff at Columbia University’s National Center for Children and Families. Her work in the field of youth development and prevention programs has been presented at national conferences and published in academic journals. Christina has extensive knowledge and experience in program evaluation and improving service delivery through identification of factors that impact today’s young people. She is also involved as a volunteer in providing mentoring and developmental support to youth in underserved populations. Christina received her doctoral degree in developmental psychology, with a focus on children and adolescents, from Columbia University (2004).