Evaluating our prevention efforts is a critical component of a successful program. Evaluation makes our prevention programming better and helps us ensure we are not unintentionally causing harm. We also know that evaluation can sometimes feel daunting. That's why we created this toolkit! This is just one resource in a large library of prevention tools. You can find more tools to support your evaluation efforts at the end of this toolkit.

HOW CAN THIS TOOLKIT HELP YOU?

This toolkit includes some valuable contextual information for understanding/conducting evaluation activities as well as a variety of templates that can be adapted by your programs to help in evaluation planning and implementation. These templates offer one approach to each of the included evaluation strategies. They are not the only ways to collect and analyze data, but may be a helpful start.

WHO CAN USE THIS TOOLKIT?

Anyone implementing violence or abuse prevention efforts with populations or within a set community might find this toolkit helpful. Although this toolkit is focused on violence and abuse prevention efforts, particularly upstream/primary prevention efforts, the models, theories, and templates included in this toolkit are widely used to evaluate different work. They are not unique to just violence and abuse prevention.