MSB Data Collection & Evaluation Framework
The MSB Consulting, LLC Framework, encompasses professional practice, mixed methodology, and contextual awareness to foster health equity, embrace culturally responsive and anti-racist practices, and promote community, partnership engagement, accessibility, and inclusivity through evaluation while offering education and enrichment. Our commitment to ethical evaluation practices, cultural respect, and integrity guides us in selecting appropriate approaches and theories, identifying areas for professional growth, and pursuing ongoing development. We aim to use evaluation as a tool for promoting social justice and the common good. We involve diverse collaborators, employ program logic and theory, and use culturally sensitive data collection methods. We rigorously analyze data, recognizing both strengths and limitations, and interpret findings in the broader context as well as within its specific context. These principles are the foundation of our work, ensuring ethical, credible, and impactful evaluations and training.
Health-Equity Approach
Health equity is the state in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health. A health equity approach considers the unique needs and challenges historically marginalized and underserved communities face.
Health-Equity Services
Taking a health-equity approach helps identify and address disparities in health outcomes among different populations, ensuring that data analysis and decision-making processes consider the unique needs and challenges marginalized and underserved communities face.
SERVICES OFFERED
1. Organizational Capacity Screener
2. Community Public Health Data Review
3. Focus Groups
4. Health Equity Infographic
5. Health Equity Perspective Integrated into All Products and Evaluation Guidance
Accessibility & Inclusivity
Concepts, tools, information and participation are designed and conducted in ways that include as many people as possible and prioritize the needs of those with disabilities or different abilities, different backgrounds, and varying expertise levels.
Accessibility, Inclusivity & Our Services
By promoting accessibility and inclusivity, evaluation can foster equal participation to a wide range of individuals (including those with disabilities, diverse backgrounds, and varying levels of expertise), understanding, and engagement, leading to more informed and equitable decision-making processes.
SERVICES OFFERED
1. Participant Accessibility Screener/ Questionnaire
2. Document Translations – English to Spanish
3. Accessibility Review of Products
Culturally Responsive & Anti-Racist Practices that Ensure Equity
Culturally Responsive Practices are aware of cultural influence on the context of health and therefore, take into account (and respect) cultures of affected groups. Anti-Racist Practices acknowledge historical impacts of racism, systemic biases, power imbalances and historical inequities on affected groups. Anti-racist practices should also seek to heal these impacts, while advancing equitable opportunities and/or at the very least doing no further harm.
Culturally Responsive Services
The very concept of equity is rooted in principles and values that guide decision-making and shape the desired outcomes of the evaluation process. Moreover, if evaluators strive to be values-free in their pursuit of equity but their evaluation design is built on hidden bias, it will not only distort all measurements and outcomes throughout the project, but also jeopardize the expression of truth and hinder the achievement of genuine equity.
SERVICES OFFERED
1. Training in collaboration with LKP Equity Consulting and CBK Enterprises
2. Implementation Coaching
3. Organizational Capacity Screener
4. Participatory Social Mapping
5. Tailor and Communicate Findings and Information to Different Audiences (e.g. Funders vs Partners vs Community)
6. Culturally Responsive & Anti-Racist Perspective Integrated into All Products and Evaluation
Community & Partnership Engagement and Buy-in
People and communities who are intended to receive programs and resources are involved in decision-making and planning of programs. This facilitates the development of trust, inclusion of diverse perspectives, and implementation of solutions that address the specific needs and concerns of the community.
Community & Partnership Services
Participatory evaluation and involving partners in all stages of the evaluation process are essential for understanding the community’s unique context and addressing health disparities effectively. Involving those directly affected by the data and its implications fosters trust, ensures the inclusion of diverse perspectives, and increases the likelihood of implementing effective solutions that address the specific needs and concerns of the community.
SERVICES OFFERED
1. Community Member Involvement Mapping
2. Community Collaborator/ Partnership Mapping
3. Community Readiness for Prevention Assessments
4. Community & Partnership Engagement and Buy-in Integrated into All Products and Evaluation Guidance
Education & Enrichment
Intentionally reaching out to external communities, individuals, and interested parties to offer valuable information and resources across areas of our expertise.
Education & Enrichment Services
Empowerment for violence prevention and evaluation involves providing individuals and communities with the necessary knowledge, tools, and resources to effectively recognize, prevent, and respond to instances of violence, promote health equity, and evaluate the impact of their work. The goal is to enhance understanding and engagement, typically through accessible and culturally sensitive means such as workshops, events, and customized communication methods.
SERVICES OFFERED
1. Training on the following areas of expertise:
a. Violence prevention
b. Evaluation
c. Teen Dating Violence
d. Theory to Practice Translation
2. Resource Database
3. Executive Consulting and Coaching