Western Physically Active Children & Youth (PACY)
– Evaluation of Program
Through our work with Sharing Strengths, we took a lead role in developing
and managing two evaluation processes for the Western PACY initiative
in western Nova Scotia (both in 2001 and 2003). The focus of these evaluations
was on assessing whether community capacity to promote physical activity
for children and youth had increased. The results of this research helped
inform the development of the provincial Active Kids Healthy Kids initiative
currently sponsored by the Nova Scotia Department of Health Promotion
and Protection.
We developed the evaluation frameworks (Phase I and Phase II) for this multi-stakeholder initiative and wrote a history of the initiative that included descriptions of the community projects funded through the initiative. We developed the evaluation frameworks and initiative profile not as an independent contractor but as a member of the Evaluation Subcommittee (although we were later contracted as an independent to refine the data collection tools, collect the data, and write the final report of results).
