Experience
Over the past two decades, the Center for Community Health and Evaluation (CCHE) has evaluated major initiatives designed to improve health, many of which involve working with ethnically diverse communities. An emerging CCHE specialty is evaluation of the long-term legacy of grant making programs funded by foundations. To appreciate the depth and breadth of our experience, please consult the complete list of CCHE projects.
Current and recently completed projects
- California HealthCare Foundation and Kaiser Permanente Community Benefit Program: Three year evaluation of a joint initiative that funds community coalitions throughout California to improve access to specialty care.
- Kaiser Permanente Safety Net Program: Regional cross-site evaluation of ALL (Aspirin-Lovastatin-Lisinopril), a population-based intervention in selected community clinics to provide secondary prevention of cardiovascular morbidity.
- Kaiser Permanente Safety Net Program: Assessment of the mix and scale of Safety Net Partnership strategies in three regions (Colorado, Georgia and Northern California), including piloting approaches for measurement of intermediate and long-term outcomes.
- Kaiser Permanente Educational Theatre (ETP) Programs: Assessment of elementary school students' gain in knowledge in selected healthy eating and active living topics after viewing ETP performances.
- Kaiser Permanente Community Benefit Program: National cross-site (eight regions) evaluation of the Community Health Initiative. The initiative is an intensive, place-based, partnership-driven effort to address chronic disease prevention and control through encouragement of healthy eating and active living.
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation: Evaluation of the 10-year Growing up Healthy: Kids and Communities initiative, which funds 15 projects to address the social, economic, and environmental determinants of children's health.
- Public Health-Seattle and King County: Evaluation of the King County Food and Fitness Initiative, a W.K. Kellogg Foundation-funded program to address health disparities by improving access to affordable, locally grown, healthy food and to children's play spaces.
- Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky: Evaluation of Healthy Kentucky's primary care and advocacy initiatives. The initiatives include grants to over 30 non-profit organizations working to increase primary care access and to build the capacity to advocate for efforts to improve the health of Kentuckians.
- Northwest Center for Public Health Practice: CCHE provides consultation to support the evaluation of the Northwest Center's ongoing training programs and projects and assists in the development of training programs related to evaluation.
- Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium: Evaluation of the Steps to a Healthier SE Alaska program. This site is one of the twenty federally funded programs to address chronic disease and disparities through community collaboration and prevention.
- Healthcare Georgia Foundation: Consultation to develop strategies for evaluation of foundation performance and to establish a process for evaluation technical assistance to non-profit, health-related organizations.
Complete list of CCHE projects