Innovative Health Solutions: Evaluating Ontario's Black-focused Social Prescribing
Social prescribing bridges the gap between social and clinical models of health. It enables health providers to refer patients to community-based programs tailored to each client's interests, goals, and strengths using the familiar process of writing a prescription.
Surrounding Black Youth with Care: A Data-Informed Approach to Transitional Housing Programming
Findings include: emphasizing the importance of collective support over individual efforts, and highlighting the pivotal role of community connections, particularly mentorship from individuals sharing similar lived experiences.
How an Afrocentric lens unlocked meaningful evaluation of TAIBU’s impact in Black communities
To help demonstrate their impact, TAIBU needed a framework to aid with collecting, monitoring, and evaluating data. And given their mandate to serve Black communities, any evaluation system they adopted would need to incorporate an Afrocentric lens to stay true to their mission, vision and values.
Development of an Evaluation Framework that utilized an Afrocentric lens
The Afrocentric Evaluation Framework has guided program design and evaluation at TAIBU, and LogicalOutcomes commended for being culturally appropriate and flexible.