Recently, I was reminded of the importance of integrating evaluation into a program’s activities rather than treating it as an external oversight. By doing so, we can promote stronger relationships, mutual respect, and the healing of any harm caused by traditional evaluation methods. Instead of imposing evaluations, we should encourage…

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Greetings,

We recently used the call-in cards with several GTA universities’ recruitment teams as part of their recruiter training (for free – lol!).

What was powerful about using the cards in this way was hearing multiple attendees say, “We spent so much time on what we need to know to tell others, but we hadn’t spent time discussing how we…

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The Anti-Hero’s Intervention

The air on the Finch West bus was thick with the humid promise of a Toronto summer evening in 2006. Our anti-hero stood near the rear exit, his gaze soft but steady as he watched a group of teenagers board at Jane Street. They moved as one organism, loud, kinetic, a jumble of nervous energy and bravado. One of them,…

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What a beauty-filled inquiry. I am going to return to add to this thread. But first, I need to sit with its depths, complexity, and nuances, while gathering my experiences.

Thank you for this prompt.

Check google for a doc called Performance Measurement to

Evaluation from the Urban Institute. It’s a great read.

“Performance measurement tells what a program did and how well it did it. Evaluation tells the program’s effect on the people, families, or communities it is serving,”

I love it! It also honors space to welcome the varying ways of communication beyond ‘terms’ and even ‘words’ but also art, images, sound, and ‘actual feelings.’ What a beautiful future when we deconstruct the sidewalk that brought us to this destination, replace it with access-friendly trails and ponds, and plant a tree with a leafy canopy to…

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I have found that the simplicity of a question like who am I paired with the complexity of whose am I? begins to center an individual’s experience while connecting them to the collection of relationships they knowingly and unknowingly own, including non-healing centered institutions. It’s beautiful when you listen to the individual through…

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A healing-centered approach to addressing trauma requires a different question that moves beyond “what happened to you” to “what’s right with you” and views those exposed to trauma as agents in the creation of their own well-being rather than victims of traumatic events.…

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