The View from Main Street and the View from 40,000 Feet: Can a National Evaluation Understand Local Communities?
This chapter describes an approach to evaluation that balances the need for long-term, generalizable knowledge and the need for immediate results necessary to sustain or maintain the program. This approach is examined in the context of the National Evaluation of the Fighting Back Partnership, a community-based substance abuse harm reduction program that was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. [download]
Other publications from this project:
Tighe, E., Saxe, L., (2006). Community-based Substance Abuse Reduction and the Gap between Treatment Need and Treatment Utilization: Analysis of Data from the Fighting Back General Population Survey. Journal of Drug Issues, 36 , 293-310.
Saxe, L., Kadushin, C., Tighe, E., Beveridge, A., Brodsky, A., Livert, D., & Rinskopf, D. (2006). Community-based prevention programs in the war on drugs: Findings from the Fighting Back demonstration. Journal of Drug Issues, 36 , 261-292.
Saxe, L., Kadushin, C., Livert, D., Tighe, E., Ford, J., Beveridge, A. & Rindskopf, D. (2001). The visibility of illicit drugs: Implications for community-based drug control strategies. American Journal of Public Health, 91, 1987-1994.
