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Right Choice Program Substance Abuse Council of Indian River County 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 B19 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 Right Choice 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. The Council is also a part of the State of Florida, Florida Youth Initiative Evaluation program. The University of Miami conducts random, unannounced evaluation of both program process and content. Establishing performance targets for strategy goals and objectives is a very important part of prevention program implementation process . Ultimately they will also randomly sample our pre/post test and conduct evaluations on their rate of change and validity . 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 Right Choice 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. 12