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Aims > Evaluation
The Logic Model for the University of Hawai‘i’s Asian/Pacific Islander Youth Violence Prevention Center (APIYVPC) is based on the National Framework for the Academic Centers of Excellence Program. It guides out activities across the 5-year grant period.
Overall Mission:
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Reduction and prevention of interpersonal violence for Asian/Pacific Islander (API) youths by developing an effective, comprehensive, public-health, and culturally competent model for one API community (i.e., Kailua-Waimanalo) to serve as a national prototype for other API communities.
The Logic Model specifies APIYVPC inputs, activities, outputs, and outcomes, and the relationships among these components.
Inputs: Inputs are assumptions underlying a program and the necessary resources for implementation.
Activities: Activities are the things APIYVPC provides and does.
Outputs: Outputs are produced as a result of program activities. They include enhanced capacity for prevention, communication and dissemination. intervention implementation, and training and technical assistance.
Outcomes: Outcomes refer to the intended effects of cumulative program activities (mediated by the outputs).
Contextual conditions are placed at the bottom of the Logic Model. More specific to the APIYVPC, these refer to conditions such as culture, colonialism, immigration, acculturation, racism, gender-role expectations, health and service gaps, and socioeconomic conditions that may be associated with IYV in Hawai‘i and need to be considered as the APIYVPC works with the community to engage stakeholders, develop the research agenda and mobilization plan, and conduct other APIYVPC activities aimed at achieving the outputs and outcomes.
Evaluation is located at the top part of the Logic Model and extends across all inputs, activities, outputs, and outcomes, with the exception for the ultimate outcomes. The arrow to each column signifies that the APIYVPC will evaluate each component, as evident in the “Detailed Evaluation Plan”. Finally, API culture is a factor that influences every aspect of the APIYVPC. Therefore, the Logic Model has a background of weaved lauhala leaves. As the lauhala leaves are woven together to form a mat, culture is inter-woven and incorporated throughout the APIYVPC Logic Model.
The six APIYVPC Aims are embedded and integrated within the Logic Model.
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Aim 1 (infrastructure and collaboration) is addressed primarily by the inputs.
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Aim 2 (community partnership, mobilization, and empowerment) is referred to under the inputs (e.g., Community Advisory Board), activities (e.g., develop and implement mobilization plan as well as building capacity), output (i.e., enhanced capacity for prevention), and outcome (i.e., reduction of risk factors, increase in protective factors).
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Aim 3 (research) is addressed by developing a research agenda, improving surveillance, conducting culturally responsive research, and implementing interventions.
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Aim 4 (training) is addressed by the output of training and technical assistance.
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Aim 5 (communication and dissemination) is represented by the output of “communication and dissemination” and outcome of improved practice and policy.
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Aim 6 (evaluation) is conducted across the entire APIYVPC. The collective outcomes will be IYV-reduction for Kailua-Waimanalo and the development of the national prototype for IYV prevention.
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