Research Catalog

Title

RAND suicide prevention program evaluation toolkit / Joie D. Acosta, Rajeev Ramchand, Amariah Becker, Alexandria Felton, Aaron Kofner ; prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Author

Acosta, Joie D.

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Ramchand, Rajeev
• Becker, Amariah
• Felton, Alexandria
• Kofner, Aaron
• National Defense Research Institute (U.S.). Forces and Resources Policy Center, issuing body.
• Rand Corporation, issuing body.
• United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense, sponsoring body.

Description

ix, 177 pages : color illustrations; 28 cm

Summary

Evaluating suicide prevention programs can be challenging because suicide is a rare event, data on suicides often lag by several years, and programs tend to have multiple components, making it difficult to discern which characteristics contributed to a given outcome. The RAND Suicide Prevention Program Evaluation Toolkit was designed to help program staff overcome these common challenges to evaluating and planning improvements to their programs. It begins by walking users through the process of developing a program logic model that ties program activities to intermediate outcomes, helping staff better understand the drivers of any changes in long-term outcomes, such as suicide rates. It then offers information about the latest evaluation research, helps users design an evaluation that is appropriate for their program type and available resources and expertise, supports the selection of measures for new evaluations and to augment or enhance ongoing evaluations, and offers basic guidance on how to analyze and use evaluation data for program improvement. Through checklists, worksheets, and templates, the toolkit takes users step by step through the process of identifying whether their programs produce beneficial effects, ultimately informing the responsible allocation of scarce resources. The toolkitâss design and content are the result of a rigorous, systematic review of the program evaluation literature to identify evaluation approaches, measures, and tools used elsewhere and will be particularly useful to coordinators and directors of suicide prevention programs in the U.S. Department of Defense, Veterans Health Administration, community-based settings, and state and local health departments. A companion report, Development and Pilot Test of the RAND Suicide Prevention Program Evaluation Toolkit, offers additional background on the toolkitâss design and refinement.

Alternative Title

Toolkit

Subjects

• Suicide > United States > Prevention > Evaluation
• Suicidal behavior > Treatment > United States

Note

• "TL-111-OSD"--Page 4 of cover.
• "RAND National Defense Research Institute."
• "This research was ... conducted within the Forces and Resources Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research Institute"--Preface.
• Accompanied by a companion document on the Web.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-177).

Contents

Introduction and overview -- Identify your program's core components and build a logic model -- Design an evaluation for your program -- Select evaluation measures for your program -- Analyze your program's evaluation data -- Use evaluation data to improve your program -- Appendix A: Summary of program evaluation studies, by program type -- Appendix B: Glossary of terms.

Call Number

JFF 17-672

ISBN

• 0833080725
• 9780833080721

LCCN

2014395955

OCLC

867483367

Author

Acosta, Joie D., author.

Title

RAND suicide prevention program evaluation toolkit / Joie D. Acosta, Rajeev Ramchand, Amariah Becker, Alexandria Felton, Aaron Kofner ; prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Publisher

Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-177).

Added Author

Ramchand, Rajeev, author.

Becker, Amariah, author.

Felton, Alexandria, author.

Kofner, Aaron, author.

National Defense Research Institute (U.S.). Forces and Resources Policy Center, issuing body.

Rand Corporation, issuing body.

United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense, sponsoring body.

Report No.

RAND/TL-111-OSD

Research Call Number

JFF 17-672