When an organization is trying to reorganize and create new programs, they will use an evaluation plan to do this, an evaluation is a very important step in the development and implementation of the organizations program and projects they are trying to develop. It’s important to have a solid foundation to carry out the mission, goals, and the objectives, and it’s also important to have a way to define success and failures through the proper use of evaluation techniques, appropriate reporting, and having the right tools to carry out the programs. It can be challenging for an agency to decide if they should use a process evaluation or an outcome evaluation plan. The main objective of an evaluation technique is to provide for the state the agency is in, tell how – well or how poorly the programs are working, what may need to be done or changed, and how they are keeping up to meet their goals mission, and objectives.
For the PEACE Domestic Violence Agency, they want to empower survivors, reduce trauma that victims go through and to promote recovery through direct services. The PEACE agency is committed to the clients they serve, the agency wants to reduce sexual assault and domestic violence through education and strives to challenge how domestic violence is looked at, and how some condone violence in the community.
Process evaluations serves a pacific purpose, it’s to collect information from a program which provides the basis for the outcome evaluations. Outcome evaluations take assessments of the raw data which helps the agency to know how well the program is meeting its goals. In order for this agency to be evaluated, some authority has to be taken to set the groundwork for the agency. If both of these processes are over looked the evaluations will not help to provide the correct estimate of any programs. The missions, goals, and objectives presented in this scenario are fairly followed. If the agency does not have