Hi Erica et al,

I am very interested about the focus groups you did at an emergency food
program.

We are currently undertaking two exercises.  The first is an evaluation that
includes using a focus group for low income patrons who use our 'Cloth
Diaper Bank' service.  We aim to begin the groups in early February.

The second project is a full scale program evaluation.  House of
Friendship's Emergency Food Hamper Program is KW's largest provider of
emergency food, serving more than 18,000 different people annually.  The
purpose of the evaluation is to determine if we are meeting our stated
goals, what persons who rely on our service think of our service with a view
towards guiding future program direction(s).  It will be heavy on
participation by patrons.

Any tips, reports, links etc would be most useful, since we are not finding
a lot of Canadian examples of food bank program evaluations.  The Toronto
Health Communication Unit did a lit review in June 2002 and came up with a
few reports.  The address is:
http://www.thcu.ca/infoandresources/Literature%20reviews.  Also, Halton
Region has a fairly recent report and STOP 103 had a component of their
program evaluated about 3-4 years ago.  That is about it thus far.

Thanks eh,

Michael Parkinson
Program Coordinator
House of Friendship
Emergency Food Hamper Program
807 Guelph Street,
Kitchener, ON N2H 5Z2
519-570-3976
http://houseoffriendship.org

----- Original Message -----
From: "Erica MacIntyre" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: Use of focus groups & poverty


> Hi,
> We held a focus group in our area in one of the emergency food programs as
> part of a community health goals process along with other groups. We
> developed our own approach and it was also adapted for a downtown needs
> assessment involving additional focus groups in low income areas in the
> downtown core.  We drew heavily from a document we were refered to from
> Click4HP at http://www.utoronto.ca/qol/manual.htm  There is also a good
Sage
> publication by R. Krueger entitled, Focus Groups - A Practical Guide for
> Applied Research."  It is research oriented.  There are also many
practical
> guides on the web - good ones were
> http://www.ln.edu.hk/mkt/courses/howtodofocusgroups.doc
>
> http://www.usaid.gov/pubs/usaid_eval/#02
>
> We eventually pulled the focus group reports and other consultation
methods
> all together into one summary report.
>
> Erica MacIntyre, Health Planner
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Health Promotion on the Internet [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> > Behalf Of Gayle Rutherford
> > Sent: January 22, 2003 3:36 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Use of focus groups & poverty
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> > I would like to access reports or documentation of focus groups that
have
> > been conducted with individuals living on low-income, particularly
related
> > to the relationship between low-income and health.   I am interested in
> > focus groups (or other methods of qualitative data collection) that have
> > been conducted in Canada over the past 5 years with any of the
population
> > groups known to be most affected by poverty.
> >
> > I believe that it is important for the people most affected by poverty
to
> > have a voice and to be involved as much as possible in the development
of
> > solutions.  However, I would like to avoid duplication if this
information
> > has already been gathered and can be shared.
> > I look forward to your responses.
> >
> > Gayle Rutherford, Rutherford Consulting Group Inc.
> > 108 Valhalla Cres. N.W.
> > Calgary, AB T3A 1Z9
> > Phone 403-286-5983
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
> > One person living in poverty said to me, "This takes time, effort and
> > support.  If we give the time and effort can we count on your support to
> > improve the circumstances that we find unhealthy?"
> >
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