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An Evaluation Plan for the Student Health and Wellness Center for Success

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An Evaluation Plan for the Student Health and Wellness Center for Success

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Students attending college face several barriers that can negatively affect their academic success - Food insecurity, housing instability, and the lack of mental health support. Rising cost in tuition and insufficient income and financial aid make these challenges more likely (Goldrick-Rab, 2016).

Close the gap/increase academic success - MC Community Resources Network, Student Health and Wellness Center for Success to provide the support systems

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The Student Health and Wellness (SHaW) Center for Success provides students access to education and training, community resources (tangible and intangible), and other supports in areas that meet the needs of the “whole student” in an effort to significantly reduce barriers that impede student success.  The SHaW Center for Success focuses on (1) Health & Safety Education, (2) Mental Health Wellness, (3) Health, Human Services and Nutrition, and (4) later Physical Health & Wellness.

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The purpose of the evaluation is to examine the effectiveness and impact of the Student Health and Wellness Center for Success, as well as how effective are the program strategies and activities to meeting the program goals and intended outcomes.

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Some key evaluation questions will include:

1.     How well is the implementation of the program for meeting its outcomes and what are the barriers to implementation?

2.     To what extent are the staff prepared/trained to implement the program’s strategies and activities and how effective are the program’s strategies and activities?

3.     What aspects of the program are working well, and how might the program services be improved?

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The methods for data collection will include the following:

1.     Interviews

2.     Questionnaires, Surveys

3.     Observation

4.     Test

5.     Documents and Records

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Check out what one of the market participants decided do with her carrots

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Mobile Market - Testimonials

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Montgomery College's partnership with the Capital Area Food Bank provides the Mobile Market, an on-campus food distribution service at no cost to the public. The Mobile Market occurs numerous times throughout the year on each of Montgomery College's campuses.

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Student Health and Wellness Center for Success - Mobile Market

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Student Health and Wellness Center for Success - Mobile Market

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Fuel for Success - Nourishing the Mind, Body, and Spirit

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Stakeholders include internal and external partners and persons.  Some internal partners and persons include various administrative units, such as administrative and fiscal services, advancement and community engagement and academic affairs, then faculty, staff, students, administrators, and volunteers. External partners include non-profit agencies like the Capital Area Food Bank and government agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services. In addition, external partners include some private entities.

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SHaW Center for Success Mobile Market Questionnaire - Appendix B

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SHaW Center for Success Mobile Market Questionnaire - Appendix B

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The recommendations will be feasible, actionable, and tailored to intended users.
The Director of Student Affairs and staff will use evaluation findings and recommendation to make pertinent program decisions.  The team will share recommendations to the Senior Vice President for Student Affairs, who will then present to the Senior Administrative Leadership Team (SALT).  Persons who make up SALT make critical decisions about allocation and granting of resources within the College.  They determine what programs are preserved, expanded or discontinued

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Mental Health - Stress Relief - Intangible Resources

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Mental Health - Stress Relief - Intangible Resources

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The main purpose of communicating and reporting is to inform stakeholders and others about the evaluation purpose, activities and findings.
There are key components: audience, purpose, format and timing.
Audience: Eval Team which consist of the director of the SHaW Center and staff, OIRE staff,SALT, SVP for Student Affairs, MC Administrators, BOT, Governance Councils, and the College Community as a whole. Purpose: depends on interest and stake.  The plan will inform and remind stakeholders of the purpose of the evaluation, process, methods of gathering data, preliminary findings if available, and share recommendations based on findings. Formats: meetings, oral presentations, written communication in publications and newsletters, email, website, communications that entails tables, graphs, charts, videos, and posters and flyers with photos or graphics. Timing: Throughout Process

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At several points of contact, quantitative and qualitative data is gathered.

The analyst, along with some assistance, will determine categories, themes, and patterns. Microsoft Office programs like Word, Excel are used tools to track, record and document numbers and responses, as well as depictions of results.
Although the first year will be a year to benchmark, an analyst will determine how many students and others connect to and/or receive services, resources, and training and education. The next year will determine whether nor the center and its programs maintain or increase connection and services, etc.  This method will also help determine percentage of students served compared to others, like faculty, staff and community, in addition to number seniors, children and veterans served.  It also allows staff to determine number of servings and household impact.

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Student Health and Wellness Center Logic Model

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Some Activities, See Appendix A - Logic Model

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Some Activities, See Appendix A - Logic Model

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Some of the activities of the program include:

1.    Developing the MC Community Resource Network through the cultivation, establishment and development of internal and external relationship and partnerships.

2.     Developing and conducting a series of student campaigns and workshops to educate, train and inform students and the college community on relevant and mandated topics relevant to hunger and food nutrition, mental health and wellness, housing and homelessness.

3.     Identifying and providing ways to provide tangible and intangible resources students can access such as food pantries, mobile food markets, other necessities, information for local shelters and mental health wellness, stress management campus based activities.

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Tweet Testimonial from President of College

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Connecting students to resources

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Appendix C