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More Than a Nice Thing to Do: A Practice-Based Evidence Approach to Outcome Evaluation in Native Youth and Family Programs

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This chapter describes the activities and results of a practice-based evidence project designed to develop a framework for culturally responsive effectiveness evaluation within a community agency serving urban American Indian and Alaska Native youth and families. This response to the demand for “evidence-based practice” includes a community-based participatory research approach to identifying youth outcomes valued by the community, the development of a self-assessment tool that reflects community-defined outcomes, and an effort to develop effectiveness evaluation that is both culturally appropriate and seen as credible by mainstream researchers and policy-makers.

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  1. Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children’s Mental Health, Regional Research Institute, Portland State University, 97207-0751, P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR, USA

    Barbara J. Friesen

  2. School of Social Work, Portland State University, 97207-0751, P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR, USA

    Pauline R. Jivanjee

  3. Regional Research Institute, School of Social Work, Portland State University, 97207-0751, P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR, USA

    L. Kris Gowen

  4. Regional Research Institute, Portland State University, 97207-0751, P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR, USA

    Abby Bandurraga

  5. National Indian Child Welfare Association, 5100 S.W. Macadam Avenue, Suite 300, 30338, Portland, OR, USA

    Terry L. Cross

  6. Native American Youth and Family Center, 5135 Northeast Columbia Boulevard, 97218-1201, Portland, OR, USA

    Sara Bastomski, Cori Matthew & Nichole June Maher

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Friesen, B.J. et al. (2012). More Than a Nice Thing to Do: A Practice-Based Evidence Approach to Outcome Evaluation in Native Youth and Family Programs. In: Chang, E., Downey, C. (eds) Handbook of Race and Development in Mental Health. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0424-8_6

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