Communities That Care

Posted on August 3, 2009

Volunteers Needed To Assist With Research Project

Five Town Communities That Care is seeking volunteers to help conduct observations of local research-based prevention programs like STAR and Guiding Good Choices.

CTC’s Program Evaluation Work Group needs more volunteers in order to be able to complete all of its quality assurance observations for the upcoming school year.

After an agency or group has volunteered to participate in the evaluation program, appropriate observation check-points are determined and set.

Volunteer observers complete a two-hour training, and then are assigned to a particular program and given a time to observe. The actual observations take about two hours, and happen two times during each program cycle. All programming takes place within the five town area.

The information collected from the observers is used by staff to make program modifications and by Five Town CTC to report on how well our local prevention programs adhere to the original, proven-effective, researched model.

Volunteering as an observer is an easy way to contribute to prevention efforts in our community, and to learn more about the great programs that are going on right here in our area!

The next observer training has been tentatively set for August 27 from 3-5PM at the CTC offices. Pre-registration is requested.

For more information or to register, contact Dalene Dutton at 236-9800 or dalene@fivetownctc.org.

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