Over the past year, TNC has collaborated with the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) and four local CMHA branches to conduct case studies on their Rural Mental Health Project. Supported by West Fraser, a forest products company operating in four Canadian provinces, CMHA National distributed micro-grants to four rural and remote CMHA locations across Canada.
Partner: Abiona Centre The Ujima Project is a pilot project focused on bringing mental health and early literacy support, developmental screening, and family navigation services to underserved mothers and their children. The Abiona Centre, the project’s lead agency, contracted TNC to conduct a multi-year evaluation across nine participating agencies. This evaluation examines the Ujima Project’s
A good evaluation survey is one that accurately measures the things we want to know. One common challenge with getting accurate results is ceiling effects – a design problem in which survey participants respond overly positively to questions related to their knowledge, attitudes, or behaviours before a program intervention. Ceiling effects cause challenges when assessing
