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Deborah Fisher is a writer with more than thirty years experience in print and online magazine work, project management, and nonfiction books. She is a former Minnesota Public Radio legal affairs reporter and NPR contributor. She specializes in writing, working with communities, and conducting workshops on positive youth development and family issues, including Developmental Assets for Search Institute. Her most recent books include Just When I Needed You: True Stories of Adults Who Made a Difference in the Lives of Young People and Getting To Outcomes With Developmental Assets: Ten Steps to Measuring Success in Youth Programs and Communities. |
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Pamela S. Imm, Ph.D., received her doctorate degree in clinical and community psychology from the University of South Carolina in 1996. She has extensive experience in the areas of program development, program evaluation, and applied research. She has presented at national conferences and has served as an evaluation consultant for the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, the Department of Education, and the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America. Dr. Imm is a co-author of the empowerment evaluation manual: Getting to Outcomes (GTO): Methods and Tools for Planning, Self-Assessment, and Accountability. Dr. Imm most enjoys working with local community-based coalitions to help them integrate evaluation and research-based concepts into their work. She is published in the areas of alcohol and drug abuse prevention, evaluation research, and models of effective programming. |
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Dr. Matthew Chinman is a licensed clinical psychologist, a behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation, and a health science specialist at the West Los Angeles VA Healthcare Center. His recent focus has been to develop and assess strategies to enhance the capacity of community-based prevention practitioners. He is co-developer of the Getting To Outcomes (GTO) system and the lead author of the RAND Corporation Technical Report, Getting to Outcomes 2004: Promoting Accountability through Methods and Tools for Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation. GTO was awarded "best practice process" status by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and won an award for the best self-help manual from the American Evaluation Association. Dr. Chinman has published on such topics as program evaluation methodology, empowerment evaluation, adolescent empowerment, coalition functioning, and peer support. |
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Abraham Wandersman, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology at the University of South Carolina-Columbia. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in the following areas of specialization: social psychology, environmental psychology, and social organization and change. He was interim co-director of the Institute for Families in Society at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Wandersman performs research and program evaluation on citizen participation in community organizations and coalitions and on interagency collaboration. He is a co-author of Prevention Plus III and a co-editor of Empowerment Evaluation: Knowledge and Tools for Self Assessment and Accountability and of many other books and articles. In 1998, he received the Myrdal Award for Evaluation Practice from the American Evaluation Association. In 2000, he was elected president of Division 27 of the American Psychological Association (Community Psychology), the Society for Community Research and Action. In 2001, he was first author on a paper on PIE (Planning, Implementation, Evaluation), which won a presidential prize from the American Evaluation Association for Mainstreaming Evaluation. In 2004, he co-authored the RAND publication of Getting To Outcomes 2004: Promoting Accountability Through Methods and Tools for Planning, Implementation and Evaluation. In 2005, Dr. Wandersman was awarded the Distinguished Theory and Research Contributions Award by the Society for Community Research and action. He is working on the development of empowerment evaluation systems using GTO in the areas of intimate partner violence prevention and sexual violence prevention for this branch of CDC. |