Message from the Associate Dean of Research and Evaluation
Welcome to the Office of Research and Evaluation (ORE) webpage. ORE was launched in July, 2006, as a central point of contact for our on- and off-campus partners who require research and evaluation services for projects, programs or initiatives they are undertaking in local communities and throughout the state. ORE is housed Sarah H. Fleischmann Building and combines the unique expertise of faculty from various CHHS units to provide direct support, training and technical assistance to CHHS faculty, students and community partners to increase their capacity and productivity in carrying out research and evaluation activities. While we are continuing to grow our capacity to serve our students, faculty and community partners, we already have an impressive menu of services to choose from and college partners with whom we collaborate to meet a variety of research and evaluation needs. Check out our menu of services below!
ORE refers requests to the Center for Program Evaluation (CPE) that provides full-scale evaluations in the areas of family support, youth and community development, education and community health and wellness. ORE works with CPE and the Nevada Evaluation Association (NEA) to offer an annual credit-earning summer Evaluation Training Institute and one-day evaluation workshop each fall. ORE also refers requests to the Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies (CASAT), which offers expertise in research-based and evidence-based practices, programs and policies along with specific research and evaluation services geared toward organizations and coalitions involved in the prevention and treatment of substance abuse.
ORE is in the process of developing the CHHS Virtual Research Tour, which will be geared to new and junior faculty, but will support on-line navigation for any faculty member or graduate student wanting to pursue external funding to conduct their research. Look for this addition to our webpage in Fall of 2007!
We will work with our Building a Healthy Nevada Initiative to identify priority areas for multi-disciplinary research in collaboration with local, county and state partners. A main emphasis of ORE is to promote interdisciplinary research and community-based, participatory evaluation on cross-cutting issues affecting our state’s social health status. We at ORE believe that the university, and in particular CHHS faculty and students, are uniquely qualified to address some of our state’s most pressing issues by collecting and sharing data and findings from our research and evaluation efforts with providers and policy-makers in the field. Improving practice and affecting positive social change is our ultimate goal. To this end, we will continue to listen to our constituents’ concerns and interests and work to bring the human and fiscal resources to bear on their priorities.
Deborah Loesch-Griffin, Ph.D.
Associate Dean of Research and Evaluation
Menus of Services
Would you like assistance with your first grant proposal, the evaluation required by sponsors, using data to plan and improve your programs, and/or information on sponsors? We also have the following programs:
- Mentoring Program: Includes both formal, ongoing and informal, one-time mentoring opportunities with faculty possessing specific expertise in research and evaluation
- Community of Science Program: Individual technical assistance to HHS faculty to enroll in and use COS to maximize notification of funding opportunities, contacts with national colleagues, and development of proposals
- Building a Healthy Nevada: ORE will facilitate interdisciplinary research teams addressing BHN priorities by organizing community stakeholder meetings to identify research and evaluation priorities within BHN areas for subsequent development of research agendas and piloting of research and evaluation projects
- Teaching and Capacity-Building: ORE is set up to handle requests for on-site training, coaching, and professional development in research and evaluation-related areas
Professional Development Opportunities
- An annual Realities of Research workshop series and a Research Forum for CHHS faculty to share their research
- Outreach activities with community stakeholders to strengthen involvement in and implementation of student research and evaluation activities integrated with or as stand-alone practicum experiences
- Support for the implementation of the Evaluation Training Institute and an annual Evaluation conference or workshop
- Recruit and work with a cadre of local and state public and private non-profit organizations interested in serving as practicum or internship sites involving the full range of service delivery - from planning, research, implementation, to evaluation
- Organize training in research and evaluation as requested by community partners and organizations