{"id":6641,"date":"2021-10-28T09:37:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T16:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/?p=6641"},"modified":"2023-01-26T14:48:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T22:48:44","slug":"erik-elias-glenn-a-passion-for-evaluation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/2021\/10\/28\/erik-elias-glenn-a-passion-for-evaluation\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik El\u00edas Glenn: A Passion for Evaluation"},"content":{"rendered":"

What does effective service look like?<\/p>\n

The question is one that Erik El\u00edas Glenn has been preoccupied with answering over the past decade, first as executive director of the Chicago Black Gay Men\u2019s Caucus, and today as an evaluation expert at Northwestern\u2019s Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cEvaluation is a practice intent on addressing this question and more,\u201d says Glenn, associate director of the ISGMH Evaluation, Data Integration and Technical Assistance (EDIT<\/a>) Program. \u201cWe often discover opportunities to improve not only service provision, but interventions across many systems-levels. Becoming an evaluator has broadened my capacity to support public health efforts more than I thought possible and, I hope, improved my ability to positively impact the health of communities across Chicago.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glenn says he loves meeting teams that provide, advocate for, and design community-sustaining work throughout his adopted hometown of Chicago.<\/p>\n

\u201cChicago is where I discovered myself as a public health professional,\u201d says Glenn, who still maintains an affinity for Detroit, where he was born and raised. \u201cThere are brilliant advocates and service providers here to learn from, and there are also public health problems that are deeply entrenched and structural. The learning environment is rich and necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the EDIT Program, Glenn oversees evaluation capacity building and technical assistance provided to nearly 100 health and human service projects funded through the Chicago Department of Public Health. Glenn also recently began work on an evaluation project supporting the Network of National Libraries of Medicine.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the broadest reaching multi-site evaluation project that I\u2019ve ever worked on \u2014 in geography and number of individual sites,\u201d he says. \u201cThe bulk of our team\u2019s technical assistance has been delivered locally, so we\u2019ve been excited to tackle technical assistance on a national level.\u201d<\/p>\n

The process of evaluation involves collecting and analyzing information about a program\u2019s activities and outcomes as a way to improve its effectiveness.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvaluation takes considerable resources \u2014 time, energy, and money \u2014 to implement,\u201d says Glenn. \u201cFor evaluators that prioritize community-directed evaluation, this means dedicating ourselves to building relationships and committing ourselves to taking our lead from those who are most marginalized.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What does effective service look like? The question is one that Erik El\u00edas Glenn has been preoccupied with answering over the past decade, first as executive director of the Chicago Black Gay Men\u2019s Caucus, and today as an evaluation expert at Northwestern\u2019s Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing. \u201cEvaluation is a practice… Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2981,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nec-profile"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ICUo-1J7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6643,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641\/revisions\/6643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}