Developing Evaluation Approaches for an Anti-Human Trafficking Housing Program

Public Deposited

Downloadable Content

Download PDF
Request Version for Screen Reader
Creator
  • Macy, R.J.
    • Affiliation: School of Social Work
  • Eckhardt, A.
    • Other Affiliation: Restore NYC
  • Wretman, C.J.
    • Affiliation: School of Social Work
  • Hu, R.
    • Other Affiliation: Restore NYC
  • Kim, J.
    • Affiliation: School of Social Work
  • Wang, X.
    • Other Affiliation: Restore NYC
  • Bombeeck, C.
    • Other Affiliation: Restore NYC
Abstract
  • The increasing number of anti-trafficking organizations and funding for anti-trafficking services have greatly out-paced evaluative efforts resulting in critical knowledge gaps, which have been underscored by recent recommendations for the development of greater evaluation capacity in the anti-trafficking field. In response to these calls, this paper reports on the development and feasibility testing of an evaluation protocol to generate practice-based evidence for an anti-trafficking transitional housing program. Guided by formative evaluation and evaluability frameworks, our practitioner-researcher team had two aims: (1) develop an evaluation protocol, and (2) test the protocol with a feasibility trial. To the best of our knowledge, this is one of only a few reports concerning anti-trafficking housing program evaluations, particularly one with many foreign-national survivors as evaluation participants. In addition to presenting evaluation findings, the team herein documented decisions and strategies related to conceptualizing, designing, and conducting the evaluation to offer approaches for future evaluations.
Date of publication
Keyword
DOI
Identifier
Resource type
  • Article
Rights statement
  • In Copyright
License
  • Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
Journal title
  • American Journal of Evaluation
Journal volume
  • 43
Journal issue
  • 4
Page start
  • 539
Page end
  • 558
Language
  • English
Version
  • Publisher
Funder
  • U.S. Department of Justice, DOJ; Office of Justice Programs, OJP: 2016-VT-BX-K057; University of North Carolina Wilmington, UNCW; Office for Victims of Crime, OVC
ISSN
  • 1098-2140
Publisher
  • SAGE Publications Ltd

Relations

Parents:

This work has no parents.

In Collection:

Items

Thumbnail Title Date Uploaded Visibility Actions
file details 10982140211056913.pdf 2023-01-12 Public Download