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Building Community Strengths in Montana
Project Details and Overview
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PROJECT GOAL
Building Community
Strengths in Montana is designed to provide limited resource youth and
adults with technology skills to bridge the digital divide and life
skills needed to be workforce ready, enrich family life, and become
contributing community members.
Below are the flow
chart for the project overall, as well as logic models for each project
site. Please click on the links to launch a new window with the diagrams.
Project
Goals and Objective Flow Chart
Logic
Model for Rocky Boy Reservation
Logic
Model for Miles City/Terry
PROJECT RESOURCES
Rural and Native American New Community Projects: Using
a Feminist Approach in Program Planning and Evaluation
Falling
Through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide
CYFERnet
- Children, Youth and Families Education and Research Network
CYFAR
- Children, Youth and Families at Risk - a USDA Web site
Montana
Research and Analysis Bureau
Montana
Census Figures
Tribal
Governments Census Information
Custer
County Census Figures
Prairie
County Census Figures
PROJECT EVALUATION
The Building Community
Strengths in Montana grant is being evaluated by Bethany
Letiecq. Although a larger evaluation effort is in the planning stages,
project staff have been trained to utilize the Lifeskills
Evaluation System to assess the short-term effects of their programs.
The Lifeskills
Evaluation System, developed by Sandy Bailey and colleagues at Washington
State University, allows agents of the grant to build evaluation forms
for their respective programs and then enter the collected data into a
Web application backed by a central database so that the outcomes of the
programs can be analyzed. For more information on the Lifeskills
Evaluation System please click
here. For the latest updates regarding the larger evaluation effort,
please contact Bethany Letiecq.
Click on the following
link to view more detailed information about the evaluation: Rural
and Native American New Community Projects: Using a Feminist Approach
in Program Planning and Evaluation
PROJECT LEADERS AND STAFF
| Sandra
J. Bailey, Ph.D., CFLE |
Principal
Investigator & Project Director |
Human
Development & Family Specialist |
| Kirk
Astroth, Ph.D. |
Co-Project
Investigator |
4-H
Youth Development Specialist, MSU Extension |
| James
Johannes |
Co-Project
Investigator |
Director
of Programming, MSU Extension |
| Tara
Andrews |
Co-Project
Investigator |
Chairperson,
Custer County Extension |
| Sharla
Sackman |
Co-Project
Investigator |
Prairie
County Extension |
| Mary
St. Pierre |
Co-Project
Investigator |
Extension
Agent, Stone Child College, Rocky Boy Reservation |
| Bethany
Letiecq, Ph.D. |
Evaluator |
Assistant
Professor, MSU Bozeman |
| Peggy
Riotutar-Aquino |
CYFAR
Project Coordinator, Rocky Boy |
Grant
Specific Staff |
| Melissa
Swan |
IT
Instructor |
Grant
Specific Staff |
| Tracy Grazley |
Administrative
Associate |
Administrative
Associate H&HD |
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