Center of Expertise for Program Evaluation provides AIDS Institute funded contractors with training and technical assistance in program evaluation. All trainings are offered at no charge to AIDS Institute contractors. The University of Rochester has served as the COE -Program Evaluation since 2002 providing a variety of programs including Introduction to Program Evaluation and Using the URS for Program Evaluation.

Our current training offering is HIV Supportive Services: Measuring Health Outcomes.

HIV Supportive Services: Measuring Health Outcomes

This three-day training on program evaluation is designed specifically for organizations providing supportive services to individuals living with HIV/AIDS. This training will help organizations develop systems and methods to evaluate the impact of their services on their clients’ health outcomes. Participants will be shown how to use a variety of data sources for program evaluation, including data that they input into the AIDS Institute Reporting System (AIRS).

As a result of this training, participants will be able to:

· Describe the purpose and value of program evaluation

· Develop a basic program evaluation plan pertinent to their HIV supportive services

· List evaluation methods

· Use their agency’s AIRS data for program evaluation

· Develop strategies for evaluating the impact of their services on client health outcomes

· Identify methods to overcome barriers to conducting evaluation in an organization

This training is ONLY available to organizations receiving New York State AIDS Institute funding. Click on Program Information for additional details