Here's more about the forms that you'll use as you follow the evaluation timeline. Spanish translations are available for all the forms that participants complete.

You can also learn more about session steps and evaluation design and reports--and download all of the evaluation forms. If you have any comments about the evaluation forms, please contact us.

A. Sign-In Sheets

• Collect session-by-session attendance information for participants and their children.
• Prepared by the group facilitator or parent leader to include the session date. " Filled out by all participants soon after they arrive.

B. Registration Form

• Gets basic participant information, helps track retention, and contributes to Powerful Families database used for alumni engagement.
• Passed out to each participant at the first session, along with Consent Form and Intake Surveys, in unsealed envelopes.
• Filled out by all participants, regardless of their participation in the evaluation.
• Please note: Registration Forms are the only forms that you can copy, because they're not part of the evaluation.

C. Consent Form

• Informs participants about the evaluation procedures, and gets their permission to use the information they provide to help evaluate the Powerful Families program.
• One of the leaders reads the Consent Form aloud while participants follow along, and leaders address all questions related to the evaluation.
• Participants must check one box on the second sheet, and should take home the top sheet so they have the evaluator's contact information.
• When addressing questions about the evaluation, explain:
  • This is to evaluate the program, not the participants: We need information from the participants to know whether or not the program is working and see how to improve it.
  • The evaluation is an important part of the program's success in communities around the nation; but participants don't have to be a part of it. And they can stop participating in the evaluation at any point.
  • All of their information will be kept confidential. All contact information will be kept in locked cabinets; no one but the program evaluator from Casey Family Programs will see their surveys; and names will not be attached to their surveys.

D. Intake Survey

• Collects information that will help evaluate the Powerful Families program.
• This survey is the same for participants taking all three tracks, so it includes questions about managing money, advocacy, and leadership, as well as other Powerful Families targets for positive change.
• Please note: We don't get consent from participants for their individual Intake Surveys to be shared with the agencies that are running Powerful Families. The only forms that you may copy are the Registration Forms, because they aren't part of the evaluation. Information from the Intake Surveys will be provided to agencies in aggregate form.

E. Attendance Roster

• Helps track attendance information for the whole group in a central place.
• If you'd like use an electronic copy of the roster, please contact us.
• After the third session, when enrollment has closed, one of the leaders will transfer the information from the Sign-In Sheets for Weeks 1-3 to the Roster. Please fax or send a copy of this to Jenn Beyers, Research Analyst for Prevention and Family Support, Powerful Families, c/o Casey Family Programs, 1300 Dexter Avenue North, Floor 3, Seattle, WA 98109-3542; fax: 866.884.0053). If you're using an electronic roster form, please contact us.

F. Post-Session Group Leaders Survey

• Collects information on each session, including:
  • Session content: Group facilitators and leaders are encouraged to tailor the curriculum to their group. Sometimes you run out of time and can't cover everything in the curriculum in one session. These questions help us know what the different groups are covering and why they aren't covering particular parts.
  • Facilitation and leadership process: An expectation of Powerful Families is that group facilitators and parent leaders will co-facilitate sessions, with parent leaders taking on more as they get more comfortable in the leadership position. We want to know who is covering what parts, so we can track the course of co-leadership.
  • Group process: Another expectation of Powerful Families is that leaders and participants will share personal stories and that there will be exchanges between participants (compared to only between leaders and participants).
• Sitting down together, the group facilitator and parent leader fill out the Post-Session Group Leaders Survey that goes with the chapter that was covered; completed forms are filed in the brown folder.

G. Follow-up Survey

Almost identical to the Intake Survey, except it contains questions at the end asking about participants' experience and perceived impact of the Powerful Families program.

H. Post-Cycle Community Specialist Survey

An electronic form for collecting information about partners agencies' contributions to program administration, including recruitment efforts, handling of logistics, staffing, adherence to the curriculum and peer-to-peer-model of group process, and agency engagement (as reflected internally and through collaborations with other agencies).