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Evaluating Dancing With Parkinson's: Reflections from the perspective of a community organization

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  • Gibson, Rachael
  • Robichaud, Sarah

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In 2015, Dancing With Parkinson's (DWP), a Toronto-based community organization, participated in the Ontario Brain Institute's (OBI) newly launched Evaluation Support Program. This paper reflects on that experience. In particular, we identify the key lessons derived from the OBI initiative, discuss how these lessons have informed DWP practice going forward, and highlight what we consider to be the most valuable aspects of the Evaluation Support Program. While we now recognize the need to establish an evaluation culture within DWP, we find that there are significant challenges associated with both building and sustaining evaluation capacity in the context of a small community-based organization. Whereas DWP has built considerable strengths in terms of informal evaluation capacity, on its own, such capacity is insufficient to, for example, demonstrate DWP's impact to outside audiences or successfully scale up the program.

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  • Gibson, Rachael & Robichaud, Sarah, 2020. "Evaluating Dancing With Parkinson's: Reflections from the perspective of a community organization," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 80(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:epplan:v:80:y:2020:i:c:s0149718917301325
    DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2017.05.010
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    1. Nakaima, April & Sridharan, Sanjeev & Gibson, Rachael, 2023. "Towards an evolutionary approach to learning from assumptions: Lessons from the evaluation of Dancing with Parkinson’s," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 97(C).
    2. Senter, Morgan & Clifford, Amanda M. & Bhriain, Orfhlaith Ni, 2024. "Using theory knitting to conceptualize social phenomena in the design and evaluation of dance programs for people living with Parkinson’s disease," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 104(C).

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