The Use of the Data-to-Action Framework in the Evaluation of CDC’s DELTA FOCUS Program

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• Alternative Title:
  J Public Health Manag Pract
• Personal Author:
  Armstead, Theresa L. ; Kearns, Megan ; Rambo, Kirsten ; Estefan, Lianne Fuino ; Dills, Jenny ; Rivera, Moira S. ; El-Beshti, Rasha
• Description:
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancements and Leadership Through Alliances, Focusing on Outcomes for Communities United with States (DELTA FOCUS) program is a 5-year cooperative agreement (2013-2018) funding 10 state domestic violence coalitions and local coordinated community response teams to engage in primary prevention of intimate partner violence. Grantees' prevention strategies were often developmental and emergent; therefore, CDC's approach to program oversight, administration, and support to grantees required a flexible approach. CDC staff adopted a Data-to-Action Framework for the DELTA FOCUS program evaluation that supported a culture of learning to meet dynamic and unexpected information needs. Briefly, a Data-to-Action Framework involves the collection and use of information in real time for program improvement. Utilizing this framework, the DELTA FOCUS data-to-action process yielded important insights into CDC's ongoing technical assistance, improved program accountability by providing useful materials, and information for internal agency leadership, and helped build a learning community among grantees. CDC and other funders, as decision makers, can promote program improvements that are data-informed by incorporating internal processes supportive of ongoing data collection and review.
• Subjects:
  Article Humans Interinstitutional Relations Intimate Partner Violence Program Evaluation Quality Improvement
• Source:
  J Public Health Manag Pract. 24(Suppl 1 INJURY AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION):S51-S58
• Pubmed ID:
  29189504
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5865222
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
• Name as Subject:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Volume:
  24
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:37e248154f68d9513215ed438d39d924e482b433b09350210d1918c5148cc9a9
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/52772/cdc_52772_DS1.pdf
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