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Substance Abuse Council of Indian River County PREVENT! Indian River County CSAC F. PROGRAM EVALUATION (Entire Section F not to exceed two pages) 1 . DEMOGRAPHICS : What information (data elements) will you need to collect in order to accurately describe your target population including demographics (age, gender, and ethnic background) required by the funder in Section H? What are the pieces of information that qualify them for your target population ? How do you document their need for services or their "unacceptable condition requiring change" from Section Bl ? As a licensed substance abuse provider in the State of Florida, the Council is required to utilize the State of Florida, Department of Children and Families, MA-SA (Mental Health-Substance Abuse) Data Warehouse Database . Complete, detailed, but confidential information is complied an all clients who request services of the Council . The demographic information required includes but is not limited to : • Name • Living accommodations • Family composition • Address • Type of services provided • Frequency of Use • Type of services • Gender and ethnic • Length of Stay needed background • Age • Duration of services • SS # • Drug of Abuse • Age of onset In addition non-client specific data is also maintained. Time, duration, number of participants, location of service delivery and date are maintained. Client and non-client specific data are maintained in a confidential, password protected database . Additionally the Council maintains statistics on the PREVENT ! Program. Clients may access confidential Information and Referral services by the telephone, or in person. This additional information helps the Council to track new trends of use or abuse, types of drugs being used, types of services needed and provides information on the type of educational development and continuing education needed for both staff and community. 2. MEASURES : What data elements will you need to collect to show that you have achieved (or made progress toward) your Measurable Outcomes in Section D ? What tools or items are you using as measures (grades, survey scores, attendance, absences, skill levels) for your program? Are you getting baseline information from a source on your Collaboration List in Section E? Are there results from your Activities in Section D that need to be documented ? How often do you need to collect or follow-up on this data? The collection of data elements will be collected as described in section F . 1 . Client demographic information is requested of clients upon the client intake. Each client is provided a client questionnaire. The PREVENT ! Program utilizes several short term indicators to measure the impact on achievement of this program' s goals. The evaluation tools used are as follows : • Pre and Post testing - Pre test are performed to measure the audience ' s basal knowledge prior to the presentation. Following the presentation, post tests are conducted. It is possible to measure the increase in knowledge directly related to the educational presentation. Changes in attitudes, beliefs and practices take longer to manifest in the target population. It is for this reason that a KABP was designed. KABP - (Knowledge, Attitude, Beliefs and Practice) is administered prior to and again following presentations . This tool may be administered several times to the target population. This evaluation tool indicates if an impact has manifested itself into daily life, but no change in attitudes , beliefs or practices can be expected without the prevention education. 31