Evaluating Dancing With Parkinson's: Reflections from the perspective of a community organization |
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| Institution: | 1. The Evaluation Centre for Complex Health Interventions (TECCHI), Dancing With Parkinson''s (DWP), Canada;2. Dancing With Parkinson''s (DWP), Canada;1. School of Economics and Management, Xidian University, No. 2 South Taibai Street, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, PR China;2. Shaanxi Xi ''an Yanta District, Shida Road, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, PR China;1. Department of Agricultural Education and Communication at the University of Florida, 213 Rolfs Hall, PO Box 110540, 32611, Gainesville, FL, United States;2. University of Florida. 218 Rolfs Hall, PO Box 110540, 32611 Gainesville, FL, United States;3. University of Florida. 3028B McCarty Hall D, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, United States;4. University of Florida. 113C Bryant Hall, PO Box 112060, Gainesville, FL 32611, United States;1. Texas A&M University, College of Education and Human Development, Department of Health and Kinesiology, MS 4243, College Station, TX 77843-4243, USA;2. Texas A&M University, Health Science Center, School of Public Health, MS 1266, College Station, TX 77843-1266, USA;1. Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, United States;2. Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, United States;3. Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, United States |
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| Abstract: | In 2015, Dancing With Parkinson's (DWP), a Toronto-based community organization, participated in the Ontario Brain Institute's (OBI) newly launched Evaluation Support Program. This paper reflects on that experience. In particular, we identify the key lessons derived from the OBI initiative, discuss how these lessons have informed DWP practice going forward, and highlight what we consider to be the most valuable aspects of the Evaluation Support Program. While we now recognize the need to establish an evaluation culture within DWP, we find that there are significant challenges associated with both building and sustaining evaluation capacity in the context of a small community-based organization. Whereas DWP has built considerable strengths in terms of informal evaluation capacity, on its own, such capacity is insufficient to, for example, demonstrate DWP's impact to outside audiences or successfully scale up the program. |
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| Keywords: | Community organization Evaluation capacity building Implementation Sustainability Parkinson's disease |
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