UCCE Program Development and Evaluation Capacity Building Trainings 2025
WHAT: Online interactive trainings to help with planning your programs/projects, engaging California communities, civil rights compliance, and evaluating your programs and assessing their impact. These trainings highlight UCCE examples. For 2025, we have added a few brown bag sessions to showcase tech tools and best practices for evaluation planning. This is a 15-part series offered a la carte, select whichever interests you or take the complete series!
HOSTED by: UC ANR Program Planning and Evaluation; UCCE Evaluation Specialist Vikram Koundinya; UC ANR Climate Smart Academic Coordinator Samuel Ikendi; the UC ANR Office of Diversity & Inclusion; UC Master Gardener Program Evaluation Coordinator Jocelyn Mobley; and UC ANR Informatics and GIS Program (IGIS).
We are pleased to share we received the 2024 American Evaluation Association Extension Education Evaluation Team Award for Evaluation Capacity Building!
WHEN: Tuesdays and some Thursdays August 5th through October 7th. See dates and times below!
WHO should attend: CE academics, community educators, and other program staff. NEW CE Advisors, academics, County Directors, and regional program supervisors are highly encouraged; taking the entire series can build overall program development competencies and is encouraged.
Registration coming soon!
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Conducting a Needs Assessment | 8/5 (10AM-12PM) | Katherine Webb-Martinez Vikram Koundinya With UCCE Advisor guest speakers |
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Using Delphi Method for Needs Assessment | 8/12 (10AM - 12PM) | Vikram Koundinya Katherine Webb-Martinez Guest Speakers: Colby Silvert (Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist, University of Maryland), Parmveer Singh (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Saskatchewan), and Julia Van Soelen-Kim (UCCE Advisor) & Yulia Lamoureaux (PhD Candidate, Geography Graduate Group, UC Davis) |
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Brown Bag: GIS Methods for Needs Assessment | 8/14 (12PM-1PM) | Priyanka Vyas Andy Lyons |
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Practical Methods to Measuring Outcomes | 8/19 (10AM-noon) | Katherine Webb-Martinez Vikram Koundinya With UCCE Advisor guest speakers |
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Brown Bag: Best Practices for Writing Strong Evaluation Plans for Grant Proposals | 8/21 (Noon-1PM) | Vikram Koundinya Samuel Ikendi Greta Landis (Evaluation Specialist, University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension), Guest Speaker |
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Navigating Institutional Review Board (IRB) | 8/26 (10AM-noon) | Jennifer Sedell Katherine Webb-Martinez Kit Alviz With UCCE Advisor guest speakers |
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Defining Clientele & Civil Rights Compliance Planning | 9/2 (10AM-noon) | Kit Alviz David White Priyanka Vyas Jocelyn Mobley With recorded examples from UCCE professionals |
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Improving All Reasonable Effort and Engagement with New Audiences | 9/4 (10AM-noon) | Kit Alviz David White Guest speaker: Elizabeth Moon |
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Best Practices in Developing and Running Focus Groups | 9/9 (10AM-noon) | Jen Sedell Christina Becker Vikram Koundinya Samuel Ikendi |
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Best Practices for Developing Surveys & Basics of Sampling Methods | 9/11 (10AM-noon) | Vikram Koundinya Samuel Ikendi Kit Alviz Jocelyn Mobley Guest Speakers: To be confirmed |
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Using Ripple Effects Mapping (REM) Method in Program Evaluation | 9/16 (10AM-noon) | Vikram Koundinya Kit Alviz Guest Speakers: Yu Meng (UCCE Advisor), Greta Landis (Evaluation Specialist, University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension), Devii Rao (UCCE Advisor) |
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Brown Bag: GIS Methods for Outcome Evaluation | 9/18 (Noon-1PM) | Priyanka Vyas Andy Lyons |
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Methods to Analyze Surveys: Continuous Quantitative Data (Analyzing and Presenting Pre-Post Evaluation Survey Data) | 9/23 (10AM-noon) | Samuel Ikendi Kit Alviz |
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Methods to Analyze Surveys: Qualitative Data | 9/30 (10AM-noon) | Jennifer Sedell Christina Becker |
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Writing Strong Impact Statements | 10/7 (10AM-noon) | Katherine Webb-Martinez Christina Becker Representative from Academic Assembly Council Personnel Committee |
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Looking for recordings of previous trainings? Check out the videos for all the 2024 trainings.