The Data-to-Action Framework

Zakocs, Ronda C.; Hill, Jennifer G.; Brown, Pamela J.; Wheaton, Jocelyn; Freire, Kimberley

doi:10.1177/1090198115595010

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“…We used our rapid feedback program improvement process to identify how coalitions perceived the usefulness of project supports and made adjustments based on participant feedback (Schober & Fawcett, 2015; Zakocs et al, 2015). Supports often worked together to reinforce new concepts and promote learning and action.…”

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Evaluation of DELTA PREP

Freire

Zakocs²,

et al. 2015

Health Educ Behav

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Background Intimate partner violence (IPV) has been recognized as a public health problem since the late 20th century. To spur IPV prevention efforts nationwide, the DELTA PREP Project selected 19 state domestic violence coalitions to build organizational prevention capacity and catalyze IPV primary prevention strategies within their states. Objective DELTA PREP’s summative evaluation addressed four major questions: (1) Did coalitions improve their prevention capacity during the project period? (2) Did coalitions serve as catalysts for prevention activities within their states during the project period? (3) Was initial prevention capacity associated with the number of prevention activity types initiated by coalitions by the end of the project? (4) Did coalitions sustain their prevention activities 6 months after the end of the project period? Results DELTA PREP achieved its capacity-building goal, with all 19 participant coalitions integrating prevention within their organizations and serving as catalysts for prevention activities in their states. At 6 months follow up, coalitions had sustained almost all prevention activities they initiated during the project. Baseline prevention capacity (Beginner vs. Intermediate) was not associated with the number of prevention activity types coalitions implemented by the end of the project. Conclusion Service and treatment organizations are increasingly asked to integrate a full spectrum of prevention strategies. Selecting organizations that have high levels of general capacity and readiness for an innovation like integrating a public health approach to IPV prevention will likely increase success in building an innovation-specific capacity, and in turn implementing an innovation.

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“…DELTA PREP had summative, process, and program improvement evaluation components (Zakocs & Freire, 2015; Zakocs, Hill, Brown, Wheaton, & Freire, 2015). We focused the summative evaluation on assessing whether or not the project met its primary goal of improved coalition prevention capacity demonstrated by organizational changes.…”

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Evaluation of DELTA PREP

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et al. 2015

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“…To examine how DELTA PREP supports accelerated coalitions’ integration process, we systematically reviewed data collected from all 19 coalitions as part of DELTA PREP’s rapid-cycle program improvement evaluation (Zakocs, Hill, Brown, Wheaton, & Freire, 2015). The program improvement evaluation assessed participants’ satisfaction with and use of project supports, as well as how useful supports were to coalitions’ prevention capacity building.…”

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The DELTA PREP Initiative

Zakocs¹,

Freire

2015

Health Educ Behav

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Background The DELTA PREP Project aimed to build the prevention capacity of 19 state domestic violence coalitions by offering eight supports designed to promote prevention integration over a 3-year period: modest grant awards, training events, technical assistance, action planning, coaching hubs, the Coalition Prevention Capacity Assessment, an online workstation, and the online documentation support system. Objectives Using quantitative and qualitative data, we sought to explain how coalitions integrated prevention within their structures and functions and document how DELTA PREP supports contributed to coalitions’ integration process. Results We found that coalitions followed a common pathway to integrate prevention. First, coalitions exhibited precursors of organizational readiness, especially having prevention champions. Second, coalitions engaged in five critical actions: engaging in dialogue, learning about prevention, forming teams, soliciting input from the coalition, and action planning. Last, by engaging in these critical actions, coalitions enhanced two key organizational readiness factors—developing a common understanding of prevention and an organizational commitment to prevention. We also found that DELTA PREP supports contributed to coalitions’ abilities to integrate prevention by supporting learning about prevention, fostering a prevention team, and engaging in action planning by leveraging existing opportunities. Two DELTA PREP supports—coaching hubs and the workstation—did not work as initially intended. From the DELTA PREP experience, we offer several lessons to consider when designing future prevention capacity-building initiatives.

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“…When introducing a developmental evaluation approach, Patton et al 14(pV) wrote, “developmental evaluation provides evaluative information and feedback to social innovators, and their funders and supporters, to inform adaptive development of change initiatives in complex dynamic environments.” The DELTA FOCUS evaluation model addresses the challenges of evaluating a multisite program that supports state domestic violence coalitions, embedded in different complex social environments , which are directly implementing and supporting the implementation of multiple, and often evolving, approaches to prevent IPV in communities. 11 To learn which approaches might contribute to the knowledge base of promising community-level IPV prevention strategies, CDC adopted a developmental evaluation approach and the Data-to-Action Framework 15 to support adaptive learning and enhance evaluation practice.…”

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“…The Data-to-Action Framework was designed specifically for early-stage programs that can benefit from rapid feedback for the purposes of program development, refinement, improvement, and identification of barriers to implementation. 15 The 4 key elements of the Data-to-Action Framework are a team-based approach, ongoing adaptations for early-stage developmental programs, use of rapid feedback cycles, and generation of actionable data. 15 The rapid feedback cycles involved 5 steps:…”

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The Use of the Data-to-Action Framework in the Evaluation of CDC's DELTA FOCUS Program

Armstead

Kearns²,

Rambo³

et al. 2018

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancements and Leadership Through Alliances, Focusing on Outcomes for Communities United with States (DELTA FOCUS) program is a 5-year cooperative agreement (2013-2018) funding 10 state domestic violence coalitions and local coordinated community response teams to engage in primary prevention of intimate partner violence. Grantees' prevention strategies were often developmental and emergent; therefore, CDC's approach to program oversight, administration, and support to grantees required a flexible approach. CDC staff adopted a Data-to-Action Framework for the DELTA FOCUS program evaluation that supported a culture of learning to meet dynamic and unexpected information needs. Briefly, a Data-to-Action Framework involves the collection and use of information in real time for program improvement. Utilizing this framework, the DELTA FOCUS data-to-action process yielded important insights into CDC's ongoing technical assistance, improved program accountability by providing useful materials, and information for internal agency leadership, and helped build a learning community among grantees. CDC and other funders, as decision makers, can promote program improvements that are data-informed by incorporating internal processes supportive of ongoing data collection and review.

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The Data-to-Action Framework

Cited by 16 publications

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Evaluation of DELTA PREP

Evaluation of DELTA PREP

The DELTA PREP Initiative

The Use of the Data-to-Action Framework in the Evaluation of CDC's DELTA FOCUS Program

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