Beyond Data
This web-based resource created by the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences at North Carolina State University focuses on understanding data collection, needs assessments and evaluation. It includes an Information Bank describing a number of different data collection methods, sample data for each of these methods (and an interactive quiz to help users understand how to draw implications from data), and reporting and presenting data so it can be understood by others.
Finding Data on Suicidal Behavior
This SPRC publication offers suggestions on how to identify sources of data on suicidal behavior in your community.
How Do We Know We Are Making A Difference?
This website and accompanying book discuss how to use "indicators" - data that help measure the impact of a public health problem in a community. Although this book was developed for substance abuse prevention programs, much of the material is useful to those designing or evaluating any local public health prevention program.
SAMHSA's Prevention Platform
A website created by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) for those working on issues of substance abuse prevention. It includes tools and resources in the areas of assessment (including data collection), capacity, planning, implementation, and evaluation that are also useful for those working to prevent suicide.
SPRC Data and Statistics
This resource will help you access existing sources of data related to suicide and suicide prevention.
Writing@CSU Writing Guides: Empirical Research
These "online textbooks" created at the Writing Center at Colorado State University provide detailed coverage of a number of important issues relevant to evaluation and other types of quantitative and qualitative research. Publications in this series include Reliability and Validity; Generalizability and Transferability; Introduction to Statistics; Experimental
Methods and Design; Ethnography, Observational Research, and Narrative Inquiry; Case Studies; Survey Research; Content Analysis; and Rhetoric and the Presentation of Research.