Summary of findings from the Shoo the Flu (StF) process evaluation, a program that brings free flu vaccines to Oakland-areas elementary school students, from 2014 to 2017.
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Advancing Health Equity through Gender Affirming Health Systems
About the Guide Advance gender affirming care by applying best practices in organizational change to your health care setting. This guide details a health center’s journey through an organizational assessment process. With practical templates and facilitation guides, you can implement a similar approach in your health center. Acknowledgements Partners Cardea extends sincere thanks to the
Guide to Trauma-Informed Sex Education
The Guide to Trauma-Informed Sex Education provides facilitators, educators, and youth-serving professionals with concrete strategies for integrating a trauma-informed approach into sex ed and pregnancy prevention programming. The guide offers background information about the prevalence and impact of trauma and its effects on the brain and behavior, and expands upon SAMHSA’s components of a trauma-informed approach: safety,
Recommendations for Expansion of Services for Children 0-5 with Mild to Moderate Concerns
In the winter of 2015-2016 Cardea conducted a needs assessment to explore opportunities to improve and expand services in Alameda County and Contra Costa County for children 0 to 5 with developmental or behavioral vulnerabilities or concerns. Methods included: literature and web-based search, electronic survey of service providers, parent/caregiver focus groups and key informant interviews.
Healthy Birth Outcomes Evaluation Plan: Recommendations for Informing Program Improvement and Documenting Impact
Cardea partnered with the YWCA Healthy Birth Outcomes (HBO) program in King County, Washington, a program designed to advance health equity by working with pregnant and parenting women to improve birth outcomes. Cardea worked with HBO to develop an evaluation plan to develop HBO’s capacity to document program successes in alignment with national metrics for
Assessment of Groundwork and PRO Youth Programs
With support from Raikes Foundation, Cardea conducted an assessment of Groundwork and PRO Youth to foster ongoing learning and collaboration among providers serving homeless and at-risk youth.
Street Outreach Program Learning Lab
With support from Giddens Foundation, Ballmer Family Giving, and Raikes Foundation, Cardea implemented an exploratory and descriptive, field-based evaluation of street outreach and drop-in services as part of the Street Outreach Program Learning Lab project to improve and standardize data collection and evaluate street outreach and drop-in services for homeless youth in King County, Washington.
Project SAFE: A review of a pilot phone-based clinical consultation program for parents and caregivers in King County
With support from Giddens and Medina Foundation, Cardea conducted an independent evaluation of the Project SAFE pilot in King County, Washington. Project SAFE, is a homeless youth prevention project developed by Cocoon House in Snohomish County, Washington. Download Executive Summary
Project SAFE: A review of a family systems model to prevent teen homelessness in Snohomish County
With support from Giddens Foundation, Cardea conducted an independent evaluation of five years of Project SAFE, a homeless youth prevention project by Cocoon House in Snohomish County, Washington.
Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Prevalence Monitoring: Using Local Data to Guide Programmatic Decision-Making
About the Toolkit The purpose of this toolkit is to support state and local STD and Family Planning programs, as well as clinic administrators and managers of STD, Family Planning, Community Health Centers, primary care, and other clinic types in monitoring and evaluating CT/GC screening efforts. The toolkit introduces key indicators for assessing screening efforts,