Outreach Evaluation Resource Center

Quarterly Report: May - July, 2004

Training and continuing education

Attended a seminar conducted by Dr. Ira Harkavy, Ph.D., Founding Director of the Center for Community Partnerships at the
University of Pennsylvania.titled "What's a Community Partner To Do" at the University of Washington School of Public Affairs.

Consultation with Network members and NNO

C. Burroughs was involved in the following activities:

Developed a concept memo describing the purpose and design of the training impact survey to share and discuss with all staff at the RML Director's meeting.

Invited to participate as a member of the NLM Listening Circle trip in Alaska to generate input and feedback on the role of NLM in dissemination of health information to tribal communities.

Continued participation in the Hospital Internet Access Task Force.

Continued developing plans for context evaluation process with potential community based organization partners in the PNR.

Continued to review and provide input on evaluation sections of proposals to implement strategies developed in the first phase of the Community Outreach Partnership Planning Awards (COPPA).

Assistance with analysis, synthesis, and reporting of evaluation results

No activity

Communications and collaboration

C. Burroughs was involved in the following activities:

At the RML Director's meeting in Washington D.C., presented maps showing activities in Year 3 by RMLs in reaching public libraries and the public health workfoce.

At the RML Director's meeting in Washington D.C., provided an overview of plans and preliminary survey questions for the training impact evaluation. Facilitated dicussion of the plans and questions during the breakout session of the Associate Director and Directors.

Facilitated the process of getting consent from RML staff to revise the Participant Information sheet by adding a column for participants to volunteer their email contact for the followup training impact survey, and by deleting the Special Populations Served column.

Continued participation as member of the steering committee for the upcoming Communtiy Based Outreach (CBO) Symposium Steering Committee.

Convened conference calls with Outcome & Assessment panelists to discuss outlines for white papers to be submitted for the NLM CBO Symposium.

Continued maintaining and updating the OERC website.

Utilization and promotion of the evaluation guide

NN/LM PNR continued to distribute the guide based on request.