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A Qualitative Evaluation of School‐Based Family Resource and Youth Service Centers
Author(s) -
Kalafat John,
Illback Robert J.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1023/a:1022192905992
Subject(s) - health psychology , qualitative research , poverty , variety (cybernetics) , service (business) , resource (disambiguation) , program evaluation , medical education , public health , psychology , nursing , medicine , sociology , political science , business , computer science , marketing , public administration , social science , computer network , artificial intelligence , law
As part of the Kentucky Education Reform Act, school‐based Family Resource/Youth Service Centers were commissioned to address those poverty‐related issues that attenuate children and youths' coming to school prepared to learn. The centers had flexible mandates and were to adapt their service profiles to local urban, suburban and rural communities. A variety of grounded, inductive qualitative strategies were employed in an implementation evaluation that yielded profiles or domains of program elements, and descriptions of implementation strategies and impact on participants. These program descriptors were considered accurate by program personnel, formed the basis for training new program coordinators, and have served as reliable predictors of educational outcomes for program participants, thus affirming the utility of the qualitative evaluation approaches.