extent has our service met your needs or have the services you received helped you understand the adoption process? Recording participation: Webinars, workshops, and support participation will be monitored and recorded to ensure that clients are participating in services. Client background/contact information will also be collected at this time for service purposes. Outcome Evaluation Webinar Participant Surveys: After completing, webinars participants will be asked to fill out surveys, which will be assessed to determine whether the webinar was effective in increasing the knowledge of the potential adoptive parents and to insure the information they provide is accurate. Workshops Participant Focus Groups: After the completion of each workshop a small group of participants (6-10) will be asked to participate in a focus group to explore and exchange information on the benefit or inadequacies of the workshops including effect on confidence, knowledge of the adoption process and services, and fear surrounding adoption. Support Group/Workshop Surveys: Support group and workshop participants will be asked to fill out surveys (after completion of workshop or every two months if in support group) related to the impact of participation in terms of anxiety about and accessibility to the adoption process. Follow-up Assessments: After completion of services, follow-up assessments of clients will be conducted to determine the number of successful or unsuccessful adoptions and explore why such results occurred and the role Foster the Family played in determining these results. The program staff will collect the data from each site. Values for each person and their responses will be entered into a database specifically created for the Foster the Family program. The Adoption Service Center evaluation staff and data consultants will analyze this data using appropriate statistics (e.g. regression analysis). The evaluation staff will then interpret the finding, construct tables and graphs, summarize the results, and make recommendations for improving the program. This information will also be presented to the funders, stakeholders, and staff. The program manager will oversee data analysis to ensure it is completed on schedule.
extent has our service met your needs or have the services you received helped you understand the adoption process? Recording participation: Webinars, workshops, and support participation will be monitored and recorded to ensure that clients are participating in services. Client background/contact information will also be collected at this time for service purposes. Outcome Evaluation Webinar Participant Surveys: After completing, webinars participants will be asked to fill out surveys, which will be assessed to determine whether the webinar was effective in increasing the knowledge of the potential adoptive parents and to insure the information they provide is accurate. Workshops Participant Focus Groups: After the completion of each workshop a small group of participants (6-10) will be asked to participate in a focus group to explore and exchange information on the benefit or inadequacies of the workshops including effect on confidence, knowledge of the adoption process and services, and fear surrounding adoption. Support Group/Workshop Surveys: Support group and workshop participants will be asked to fill out surveys (after completion of workshop or every two months if in support group) related to the impact of participation in terms of anxiety about and accessibility to the adoption process. Follow-up Assessments: After completion of services, follow-up assessments of clients will be conducted to determine the number of successful or unsuccessful adoptions and explore why such results occurred and the role Foster the Family played in determining these results. The program staff will collect the data from each site. Values for each person and their responses will be entered into a database specifically created for the Foster the Family program. The Adoption Service Center evaluation staff and data consultants will analyze this data using appropriate statistics (e.g. regression analysis). The evaluation staff will then interpret the finding, construct tables and graphs, summarize the results, and make recommendations for improving the program. This information will also be presented to the funders, stakeholders, and staff. The program manager will oversee data analysis to ensure it is completed on schedule.