Evaluation

Evaluation can be a powerful method of telling an SBHC’s story or “making its case” to key stakeholders, funders, and sponsoring organizations. An evaluation is often the basis for knowing “where you are” and leads to the answer of “where do we want to go and how do we get there?”

Information gathered from an evaluation can be used to:

• Identify a starting point for improvement initiatives.
• Report on your work to the SBHC’s advisory board, school board, or community.
• Display accomplishments to your sponsoring organization.
• Make the SBHC’s case to funders.
• Provide information for grant reports.
• Raise awareness of the SBHCs services within the school.
• Inform practice and policy decisions.
• Contribute to the scientific base for community public health interventions.

Evaluation Tools

Performance Evaluation Framework - Using NASBHC's principles and goals as a basis for program evaluation, the Performance Evaluation Framework provides the structure for evaluating SBHC operations and clinical services. For each goal, it suggests structures and processes that must be in place for achieving outcomes.

A Guidebook for Evaluating School-Based Health Centers by Claire D. Brindis, David W. Kaplan and Stephanie L. Phibbs -
This comprehensive evaluation manual (available only to NASBHC members) is designed to walk you through the school-based health center (SBHC) evaluation process, using detailed descriptions, and case studies of previous SBHC research, as well as worksheets and step-by-step instructions in SBHC evaluation.