T5: Did It Work? Measuring Program Success with Outcome & Summative Evaluations

This session offers a critical examination of outcome and summative evaluations as tools for assessing program effectiveness within social work and human services. Emphasizing the importance of cultural humility and bias mitigation, the presentation explores how these evaluation types can be designed and implemented to promote equity and inclusivity in measurement and interpretation. Attendees will engage with frameworks for evaluating short- and long-term program impacts while considering the sociocultural contexts that shape participant experiences and outcomes.