| 1992-1993 1995-2000 2000-2004 2005-2009 | $250,000 annually | Department of Mental Health, Early Mental Health Initiative Program (EMHI) | The project evaluates the effectiveness of three early childhood mental health program models designed to improve school adjustment among students in primary grades. DER processes over 400,000 forms per year and creates over 250 local evaluation reports for each project via a DER-developed automated report generation system. Includes on-going technical assistance with school staff (2,000+ contacts) and periodic reporting of outcome data. Contact Jeannetter Eagan CA DEPT Mental Health (916) 651-0995 |
| 2002-2006 | $175,000 | Lake County Office of Education | Conduct a comprehensive, multi-faceted evaluation of this federally funded Safe Schools/Healthy Students project in this rural county serving seven districts. Contact Joyce Elmer, Director Lake County Office of Education. |
| 1997-2010 | $220,000 annually | WestEd / California Department of Education | Assist in the development, implementation and analysis of the California Health Kids Survey for the California Department of Education. The student survey is designed to assess middle and high school youth health risks and protective factors at a school or district level. Responsibilities include development of an automated optical scan and report generation software program. Provide TA support and scoring services for North and Central California. Contact Greg Austin at (562) 598-7661. |
| 2005-2009 | $100,000 | Lake County Office of Education | Grants to Reduce Alcohol Abuse federal project. These grants provide funds to local educational agencies to develop and implement innovative and effective alcohol abuse prevention programs in secondary schools Model SAMSHA curriculum. Contact Joyce Elmer, Director Lake County Office of Education. |
| 1995-2002 | $400,000 annually | California Department of Education, School Safety and Violence Prevention | Collect and report data from all 1,000 California school districts for the California Safe Schools Assessment (CSSA). Partnered with Butte COE, DER was responsible for the collection of the data through paper and electronic means, aggregation of the data, reporting to school districts, maintaining a database-driven technical assistance (TA) system, and conducting local evaluation and verification site visits. Contact Jean Scott at (916) 323-5074. |
| 2008-2012 | $100,000 | Grossmont Union High School District | Conduct a comprehensive, multi-strategy evaluation of this federally funded SS/HS project in this large district with a dozen high schools. Contact Jeneé Littrell (619) 713-1073 |
| 2002-2009 | $100,000 annually | City of Sacramento | Collect afterschool program attendance data across 62 program sites using optical scan technology. Collect and analyze school academic and attendance outcome data for START versus comparison group students. Contact Brian Fitzgerald at (916) 808-6196 |
| 2009-2011 | $100,000 | WestEd/ Ca DHS | In-School Evaluation of the Tobacco Use Prevention Education (TUPE) Program. Subcontract to WestEd in conducting a random sample survey of CA students in grades 6-12 regarding tobacco use behaviors. Contact Barbara Dietsch at (562) 799-5126 |
| 2008-2013 | $120,000 | Shasta Union High School District | Grants to Reduce Alcohol Abuse federal project. These grants provide funds to local educational agencies to develop and implement innovative and effective alcohol abuse prevention programs in secondary schools Model SAMSHA curriculum, Class Action, with 1,500 ninth grade students. Also implementing components of two other research-proven programs. Contact Marylee Boales at (530) 225-8413 |
| 1999-2003 | $300,000 | United States Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention | Needs assessment and evaluation of the Glenn County Rural Gang Initiative (RGI) Program. Ascertain the reduction in county crime rates and gang membership obtained by this multi-method, community driven program. Contact Lynda Shelton at (530) 934-6416 |
| 1991-1996 | $240,000 | United States Department of Education | Program evaluator for the Oroville Area Stay in School (OASIS) drop-out prevention program Evaluation focused on identifying and monitoring drop-out risk factors and actual drop-out rates, including follow-up with schools nationwide to trace drop-outs. Contact Lee Wood at (530) 538-7566. |
| 2001-2007 | $550,000 | United States Department of Education | Evaluation of the National Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration Program. Team with WestEd and Cosmos Corporation to develop and implement an evaluation of 400 school sites nationwide. Includes collection of mail and telephone interview data, and parallel collection of data from 400 control sites. Contact Naida Tushnet at WestEd, (562) 799-5118. |
| 1990-1994 | $435,000 | California Department of Social Services, Office of Child Abuse Prevention | This four-year study focused on seven school-based pilot projects designed to intervene with the families of neglected children. The outcome design utilizes a true experimental design to track ultimate Child Protective Services intervention for both target and control families. (Contact no longer with DSS.) |
| Semi-annual 1991-1999 | $200,000 | California Department of Education / Healthy Kids Program Office | Evaluation of the Centers for Disease Controls California AIDS/HIV Infection Education Program. Project required a written census survey of all 7,500 California public schools. A student Youth Risk Behavior Survey, including sexual and drug use behavior questions, is also conducted with 5,000 students in a sample of California schools. (Contact no longer with CDE.) |
| 1996-1997 | $160,000 | California Department of Health Services | The firm conducted an extensive statewide survey of California physicians to assess perceptions of issues related to lead poisoning. An 85 percent response rate was achieved. Stephanie Gilmore or Dr. Susan Cummins at (510) 597-8045. |
| 2001-2002 | $250,000 annually | Children and Families First Commissions | Evaluation programs conducted in Yuba, Sutter, and Shasta counties (three separate contracts) with funds from Proposition 10 tobacco tax revenues. Contact Deborah Coulter (Sutter) at (530) 822-7505. |
| 1998-1999 | $122,000 | Northern Valley Catholic Social Services (NVCSS) | Conducted teen and staff focus groups and one-on-one interviews at various battered womens shelter programs throughout Northern California for the Teen Relationship Abuse Needs Assessment. Contact Bob Michels at (530) 345-1600. |
| 1990-1992 | $100,000 | Southwest Regional Education Laboratory (now Wested) | Subcontracted with SWRL for the $1.5 million evaluation of the California Department of Educations comprehensive Drug, Alcohol, and Tobacco Education Program (DATE). |
| 2008-2013 | $100,000 | Napa County HHS Agency | Program funded by Safe and Drug-free Schools and Communities; focuses on the nine core components of Student Assistance Programs for students in grades 7-12 throughout Napa County. Evaluated with a mix of qualitative and quantitative measures. Contact Shirin Vakharia at (707) 259-8691. |
| Other Selected Past and Current Clients | |||
| $300,000 | Butte County Office of Education | Evaluation if the Community Partnership program funded by the federal Office of Substance Abuse Prevention (now CSAP). | |
| $200,000 | California Department of Education, Healthy Kids Program Office | Evaluation of the California Department of Education’s Tobacco Use Prevention Education (TUPE) Program. | |
| $180,000 | California Department of Education, School Safety and Violence Prevention | Violence Prevention Program sponsored jointly by the California Department of Education and the Office of the Attorney General. | |
| $150,000 | California Conservation Corps | Design and facilitation of a peer review of operations and program effectiveness at 19 California Conservation Corps Service Districts. | |
| $140,000 | Sacramento County Office of Education | Evaluation of the Healthy Kids, Healthy Generations program for pregnant and parenting teens. | |
| $140,000 | California Department of Education, Office of Child Nutrition | Evaluation the SPIN and SHAPE Food Service and Nutrition grants. | |
| $110,000 | Butte County Alcohol and Drug Services | Authored grant and program evaluator for the Office of Treatment Improvement’s (now CSAT) Community Counseling Center. | |
| $100,000 | Pacific Gas and Electric Company | Evaluated residential energy conservation programs using both process and outcome evaluation strategies. | |
| $100,000 | California Nutrition Education and Training Program | Evaluation of fifteen local nutrition education projects . | |
| $90,000 | California Department of Education, Critical Health Initiatives Unit | Evaluation of the California Department of Education’s Healthy Kids Regional Centers (Drug and School Safety). | |
| $80,000 | Butte County Office of Education | Program evaluator for the Family Literacy in Native Tribes program (Even Start). | |
| $80,000 | Butte, Glenn, Tehama and Sutter/Yuba Counties | Coordination and development of Alcohol and Drug County Master Plans in each county. | |
| $75,000 | California Energy Extension Service (Governor's Office) | An evaluation of the California Energy Extension Service’s Regional School Energy Resource Centers. | |
| $72,000 | Butte County Office of Education | Coordinated and Facilitated the planning process for three Healthy Start grantees in Butte County. | |
| $60,000 annually | Los Angeles Unified School Districts | Evaluate the Early Intervention Program (school adjustment and social competence). | |
| $60,000 annually | San Juan Unified School District | Evaluate the district’s Building Bridges Initiative (alcohol, tobacco, and other drug prevention). | |
| $30,000 annually | Newport Mesa Unified School District | Provide pre-post assessment of students served by this early elementary intervention program. | |
| $20,000 | Vallejo Unified School District | Program evaluator for the Even Start and Health Start programs. | |
| $19,000 | Napa Unified School District | Program evaluation for three Healthy Start operational grants. | |
| $18,000 | Oakland Unified School District | Oakland Conflict Resolution Evaluation. Contact Stevan Alvarado at (510) 879-8111. | |
| $15,000 | California Conservation Corps | Evaluation of the AmeriCorps’ Cadre of Corps program. | |
| $15,000 | Napa County Office of Education | Evaluation of the Office’s Innovative Tobacco Education Program, funded by Proposition 99 Tobacco funds. This is a qualitative evaluation of a program designed to impact student attitudes about tobacco. It employs are pre and post student surveys and focus group discussions with the students. contact Jeanne Title at (707) 253-3444. | |
| $30,000 | Office of the Attorney General | An evaluation of four Crime Prevention Center programs and the Child Victim Witness Protection Act (SB 2530). | |
| $10,000 annually | California State University, Chico | Evaluation of this federally funded alcohol reeducation program. | |
| $10,000 | Stuart Foundations | Conduct a research review regarding the use and implementation of “Social Development Skills” programs . | |
| $10,000 | Health Education Communication Consultants | Help develop the CDE“Getting Results” ATOD prevention document. | |
| $9,900 | Plumas County Office of Education | Evaluation if the Sierra Cascade Community Linkage Project. | |
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$7,000 annually |
Placer County Office of Education | Evaluation of Placer County Office of Education’s Peer Court program. | |