Topic

Key Points Raised

Decision/Action

1. Announcements

DeAnn was elected vice-chair of the Steering Committee.

Toward the end of 2007 the Evaluation committee might look for another co-chair. 

SC formed an ad hoc discussion group as part of the growing process to address issues found in the survey including member satisfaction, leadership, growing pains, setting priorities, engaging volunteers, resources.

Health Services Research Conference symposium accepted.

Pam submitted abstracts using the framework of the chronic care model.

AEA 2007  call for proposals

March 16 deadline. It will be in Baltimore Nov 7-10

Theme or focus of the meeting is: Evaluation and learning: practical approaches

Social Network Analysis

DeAnn is speaking at Doug Wholey’s class. What if the class did a social network analysis as a baseline for the Alliance?

What are the terms of the committee chairs?

Julia and Priscilla will draft a presentation abstract for a possible AEA poster

DeAnn will follow up with Doug Wholey about social networks and network analysis, tools to analyze data.

2. Discussion of 2006 evaluation report

• Who is the audience for the report? Are we reporting on the right things?
• CDC might want more but the steering committee wants short summary.
• Should we give a history of the Alliance in the evaluation report?
• Where do recommendations belong? Should they be integrated?
• Is this report meant to be an overview of all evaluation activities or only about the survey?
• We will make the report specific to the survey. This may make it more cohesive. Evaluation of project teams is something to do and report on in the future. We could say we are pilot testing additional methods.
• Integration quantitative and qualitative was well done.

Table 1—add a column for SC members

Do suggested actions fit with what you think data are telling you?

We will make the report specific to the survey, member satisfaction and involvement

Liz/DeAnn/Lisa  will create a better draft

Summarize findings at the end of the report. 

3. Finalize/Commitment of 2007 evaluation committee priorities

1.       Update evaluation plan. (Make suggested modifications from Steering Committee, develop communications evaluation, spell out qualitative methods)

2.       Revise member survey and interview questions (qualitative and quantitative piece). (Revisit the partnership tool)

3.       Work with task force/project team members on evaluation - "logic model" training and training committee chairs/members about creating opportunities for sharing and keeping track of relevant experiences/stories.  

4.       Identify new measures/indicators for evaluating progress of the plan.

5.       Recruit new members / transition of leadership.

6.       Define infrastructure for evaluation and participation (could be incorporated in # 2 or # 3).  Work on tracking database

7.       Evaluate communications.

Carin will lead efforts on #4.

At the February meeting discuss evaluation report

At the March meeting discuss logic models