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Gender-Responsive Programming for Girls – Track II

• List the steps in the program development process

• Develop program goals and objectives

• Identify performance measurement strategies

• Describe the connection between program goals and objectives, and evaluation strategies

After completing this module, you should be able to:

Module 4 Objectives

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• Provide those factors that contribute to success for girls

• Minimize risk factors for girls and build on protective factors

• Identify what a specific girl needs across the continuum of care

• Include program elements that have been proven to work

Successful Interventions

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• Safety

• Time to talk

• Relationships of trust and interdependence

• Programs that tap cultural strengths

• Mentors who share experiences that resonate with girls’ lives

• Education about women’s health

• Opportunities to create positive change

• A voice in program design

• Comprehensive and sustained programming

• Curricula that reflect and value the experience and contributions of women

Valentine Foundation, 1990

Valentine’s Principles(from A Conversation about Girls)

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• Initial screening to identify the strengths and needs of the girl and her family across the continuum of care (prevention, early intervention, treatment/supervision, follow-up)

• Physical health

• Mental health

• Education

• Family

• Friends/social contacts

• Offense history

Identifying What a Girl Needs

Identify risk factors and strengths


• Conduct organizational assessment

• Develop mission and vision statements


• Design and organize the program

• Manage the program

• Develop a performance measurement strategy

The Program Development Process

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(not necessarily a linear or sequential process)


Key Questions

• What are your capabilities and limitations?

• What resources and expertise are available for program planning, staff training, and performance measurement?

• How can existing resources be redirected ?

• How much can your organization afford to spend on the program?

• Who are the partners, both professional and community-based, who will need to collaborate to implement gender-responsive programs? How will you get them involved?

Organizational Assessment

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• Guide a program’s development

• Describe what you are trying to do

• Serve as the foundation of the program

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Vision, Mission, Goals, Objectives Overview


Vision and Mission

• Vision – A shared picture of the future the organization seeks to create.

• Mission – Describes the reason the organization exists.


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Goals and Objectives

• Goals – Broad statements, long-term

• Objectives – Well-defined, specific, measurable


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How to Develop Vision, Mission, Goals, Objectives

• Develop a vision and a mission statement that encompasses gender-responsive values

• Define your gender-responsive program goals

• Define the objectives that will lead to goal accomplishment


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Design and Organize the Program

• Given your mission, vision, goals, and objectives, what program elements are needed?

• Given the results of your organizational assessment, how should the program be organized?


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Manage the Program

• Leadership and supervision

• Policies and protocols

• Staff hiring, training, retention


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Performance Measurement

• The assessment of a program’s progress toward its stated goals. Performance measurement focuses on outcomes.


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Performance Measurement vs. Evaluation

• Performance measurement

• Evaluation Process (grants)

Outcomes (every program)


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Performance Indicator

• A particular value used to measure program output or outcomes


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Establishing Performance Measures

1. Define interim indicators of progress as well as long-range outcomes.

2. Be sure that your outcome measures address the domains you intend to affect.

3. Use client assessment tools/results as part of your performance measurement system, and be sure that you are assessing those aspects of your clients that you intend to affect positively.

4. If you do not implement your program or policy initiative as intended, you may get false negatives.


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Logic Models

• Help you develop outcome measures

• Illustrate connections from inputs through activities, outputs, and outcomes

• Tools for refining your thinking about each part of the program


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Activity: “So That” Chain

• Select a program or policy initiative you want to implement or have implemented.

• Develop a “so that” chain. There may be a variety of “so that” paths, especially when you are thinking of long-range outcomes.

• Propose some ways to measure outcomes or interim indicators of progress for each “so that.” Think about positive outcomes, not just the absence of negative ones like recidivism and substance abuse.


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Factors for Successful Implementation

• Clearly stated goals

• Strong leadership and management

• Clearly documented policy and protocols

• Sound hiring and staff development practices

• Effective performance measurement plan


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Personal Action Plan

• Complete the Module 4 section of your Personal Action Plan.

• Rate your organization’s need for improvement in relation to each of the factors for successful implementation.

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Module 4 Summary

• List the steps in the program development process


• Identify performance measurement strategies

• Describe the connection between program goals and objectives and evaluation strategies

After completing this module, you should now be able to:


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Documents

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