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Program and Process Evaluations

Emerging Directions Consulting Ltd. has completed a variety of program evaluations (both formative and summative) as well as process reviews.

The benefits offered to those clients wishing to undertake program or process evaluations include:

• Objectivity balanced with an ability to build upon positive program or service accomplishments
• Ability to work effectively with multiple stakeholders
• Experience using a variety of creative approaches to gathering information effectively and efficiently
• Strict protection of individual/collective identities before, during, and after data collection
• Production of evaluation reports that are informative and offer achievable recommendations

Some examples of recent evaluation studies produced by Emerging Directions Consulting Ltd. include:

• Brief Assessment of Canadian Language Benchmarks Workshops
  — Citizenship and Immigration Canada
• Community Initiatives Against Family Violence Protocol Projects (Phases One - Three)
  — Edmonton John Howard Society and other Edmonton community partners
• Corporate Program Logic Models Project
  — Alberta Children’s Services
• Hire a Student Evaluation
  — Human Resources Development Canada
• Interim Review of Canadian Language Benchmarks Language Instruction for Newcomers (LINC) and Canadian Language Benchmarks Computer Curriculum
  — Citizenship and Immigration Canada
• Intern Pilot Project
  — Alberta Human Resources and Employment
• Review of Project Delivery Systems
  — Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC)
• Sharing the Expertise Evaluation Project
  — Prostitution Awareness and Action Foundation of Edmonton (PAAFE)
• Supportive Assistance for Seniors Project
  — Edmonton Victorian Order of Nurses and Edmonton Jewish Family Services