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Evaluability assessment of "growing healthy communities," a mini-grant program to improve access to healthy foods and places for physical activity.

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BACKGROUND:Mini-grants have been used to stimulate multisector collaboration in support of public health initiatives by funding non-traditional partners, such as economic development organizations. Such mini-grants have the potential to increase access to healthy foods and places for physical activity through built environment change, especially in small and rural towns in the United States. Although a promising practice, few mini-grant evaluations have been done. Therefore, our purpose was to conduct an Evaluability Assessment (EA), which is a process that can help promising programs that lack evidence advance toward full-scale evaluation. Specifically, we conducted an Evaluability Assessment of a statewide mini-grant program, called "Growing Healthy Communities" (GHC), to determine if this program was ready for evaluation and identify any changes needed for future implementation and evaluation that could also inform similar programs. METHODS:Telephone interviews with directors of six past mini-grant recipient organizations were conducted to assess implementation and evaluability. The six interviews were split equally among agencies receiving funding for food-oriented projects and physical activity-oriented projects. Within- and cross-case thematic analyses of interview transcripts were conducted. RESULTS:Organizational capacity was a universal theme, reflecting other key themes (described in detail in the manuscript) that affected program implementation and evaluation, including collaboration, limited time and measurement integration. CONCLUSIONS:The EA process provided pilot data that suggest that other state, regional, and national funders should provide centralized assistance for data collection and evaluation from the outset of a mini-grant award program.

journal_name

BMC Public Health

journal_title

BMC public health

authors

Abildso CG,Dyer A,Daily SM,Bias TK

doi

10.1186/s12889-019-7156-8

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-06-20 00:00:00

pages

779

issue

issn

1471-2458

pii

10.1186/s12889-019-7156-8

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Evaluability assessment of "growing healthy communities," a mini-grant program to improve access to healthy foods and places for physical activity.