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26 Sept

Webinar: Unlocking impact – making theories of change work for you
Transform the way you understand, implement, and evaluate how your work makes a difference.
Training and events
Green Health Prescribing to improve physical and mental health outcomes in Midlothian

Green Health Prescribing is an approach that supports people to engage in nature-based activities which offer…

Outcomes, evaluation and impact
Evaluating an early intervention service for young people at risk of offending

In 2020, the Scottish Government Cashback for Communities granted funding to includem to provide…

Outcomes, evaluation and impact
Building a Forum to influence policy on gambling harms in Scotland

This report employs the Matter of Focus approach to outcome mapping and evaluation to show how…

Outcomes, evaluation and impact
Influencing policy on dementia with Age Scotland’s About Dementia Forum

About Dementia is Age Scotland’s Forum for improving the lives of people living with dementia…

Outcomes, evaluation and impact
Digital health and social care: making sure innovation makes a positive difference to people
Our work supporting the planning and evaluation of digital interventions and service developments.
Outcomes, evaluation and impact
Evaluation of the Transforming Local Systems TEC Pathfinder programme
High-level findings on the achievements of the Programme and the enablers and barriers to impact.
Outcomes, evaluation and impact
Understanding how evidence makes a difference to health and wellbeing: tracking the impact of Health Technology Wales
Embeding an outcome-focused approach to assessing the impact of Health Technology Wales's research and guidance.
Case Studies
Leading with outcomes across an organisation: a systematic approach to data, evidence and impact in Penumbra
A case study on our work with Penumbra to map their outcomes, improve their use of…
Case Studies
Evaluating relational services: new journal article published on our work with Future Pathways
We contributed a paper to a special issue of the journal Evaluation and Program Planning, on…
Outcomes, evaluation and impact
Evaluating personal outcomes: how can you know you are making a difference to the people you support?
This webinar will be valuable to anyone wrestling with how to meaningfully evaluate the difference their…
Outcomes, evaluation and impact
Building a community of learning together: Age Scotland’s Dementia Training
Read our report produced with Age Scotland's Dementia Training team for their third year of work.
Outcomes, evaluation and impact
Event Summary

Making sense together: How do you know if you are making a difference? event summary
An inspiring and interesting afternoon of discussion held in Edinburgh on 24 November 2022
Training and events
Evaluating the DEEP programme: Embedding evidence-enriched practice in social care in Wales
Hosted by Matter of Focus Director Ailsa Cook with Gill Toms from the University of Bangor.
Case Studies
A theory of change for Making Children’s Rights Real in Scotland
Find out more about our partnership project with the Observatory of Children's Human Rights Scotland and…
Outcomes, evaluation and impact
Working together to improve health and wellbeing in Edinburgh: how we know we collectively make a difference
How we worked with Edinburgh Community Health Forum to solve their data collection, evaluation and reporting…
Case Studies
Data stories: unlocking the power of data to tell a story of impact
An Evaluation Stories webinar with the Children’s Parliament.
Case Studies
East Ayrshire Technology Enabled Care Pathway summary findings report
Summary findings from the discover/define phase of East Ayrshire's Transforming Local Systems TEC Pathway project.
Outcomes, evaluation and impact
Opportunities for meaningful participation in evaluation
An Evaluation Stories webinar about how we worked with the Life Changes Trust Advisory Group (Young…
Case Studies
Evaluating service transformation underpinned by the Scottish Approach to Service Design
An Evaluation Stories webinar with East Ayrshire’s Thinking Differently Team.
Case Studies
Evaluating personal outcomes approaches
In this webinar we share a practical approach to overcome common challenges to evaluating and recording…
Outcomes, evaluation and impact
Supporting Scottish Women’s Aid to capture learning from their pilot webchat service for children and young people
Using the Matter of Focus approach to capture the learning from the process of designing a…
Outcomes, evaluation and impact
Evaluating a multi-country partnership’s contribution to improving justice in child contact
Using our approach to demonstrate contribution to reaching high level outcomes.
Case Studies
Building the case for peer support: an Evaluation Stories webinar with East Renfrewshire Health & Social Care Partnership
Using OutNav for the evaluation of peer support approaches in health and social care.
Case Studies
Evaluation of the Peer Support Test of Change: East Renfrewshire Health and Social Care Partnership
Highlights and full report of our independent evaluation of the East Renfrewshire H&SCP’s pilot Peer Support…
Outcomes, evaluation and impact
Side by side: an evaluation of the Life Changes Trust Advisory Group
Read our independent evaluation of the Life Changes Trust Advisory Group (Young People with Care Experience…
Outcomes, evaluation and impact
Creating compelling case studies as part of your evaluation
Working with OutNav to create and utilise case studies
Outcomes, evaluation and impact
How to bring different voices into your evaluation
How to work well with different 'voice' data to bring insights to your evaluation.
Outcomes, evaluation and impact
3 feedback tools to help you track your outcomes and impact
Use these tools to help you evidence your impact and contribution to outcomes.
Outcomes, evaluation and impact
Responding to COVID-19: an evaluation of the contribution of Edinburgh Community Health Forum member organisations
Our evaluation report is available to download now.
Outcomes, evaluation and impact
Learning as we go in Quality Improvement: Using OutNav to evaluate the Children and Young People Improvement Collaborative
Recorded live Evaluation Stories webinar with Franca Macleod, Principal Research Officer in Children and Families Analysis…
Case Studies
Evaluating health and social care transformation: learning from the House of Care programme
Recorded webinar sharing and discussing key findings and learning from our evaluation.
Case Studies
From fixer to facilitator: evaluation of the House of Care programme in Scotland
Our evaluation report is available to download now.
Outcomes, evaluation and impact
Transforming health and care systems for people living with long term conditions – an outcome focused approach
With the Lothian House of Care Collaboration between Thistle Foundation and NHS Lothian
Case Studies
Making the case for better use of qualitative data in public services
This will be of interest to anyone working in public services with an interest in data…
Outcomes, evaluation and impact
Understanding creative impact – evaluating early learning professional development
Watch our Evaluation Stories webinars to learn directly from organisations using #OutNav to evaluate their work.
Case Studies
A new approach to trauma informed working
Future Pathways embedded a complexity informed, theory based approach to evaluating the progress and outcomes of…
Case Studies
Understanding creative impact: insights into early learning professional development
Guest post by Catherine Wilson from Starcatchers, on being creative in communicating the difference the Creative…
Outcomes, evaluation and impact
Establishing neighbourhood care in a rural community
Live webinar recording: The Clacks and Stirling H&SCP Neighbourhood Care Team has embedded a complexity informed,…
Case Studies
Come with us on an evaluation journey
How can you understand your progress towards social change when standard approaches to measurement are difficult…
Outcomes, evaluation and impact
How do you know if your project is effective?
With a well-defined outcome map it can be quite easy to shape and analyse your feedback.
Outcomes, evaluation and impact

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