Research and evaluation can help to improve the way organisations work, demonstrating how work practices effect positive change and how these changes are beneficial.
The Tavistock Institute, an independent research organisation, is undertaking a four-year evaluation of the Right Here initiative (running in parallel with the life of the projects 2009 – 2014).
The evaluation will explore the following core questions:
- What is the impact of Right Here on young people's well-being and mental health?
- Which models and approaches developed by the projects are most helpful in improving young people's well-being and mental health? Why?
- Which models and approaches used by the projects were not as effective and why didn't they work?
The evaluation is concerned with the benefits for young people who engage with Right Here. But it also intends to encourage ongoing learning across the projects so that they can change and adapt over the course of time and really meet the needs of the young people they are working with.
In line with Right Here, the evaluation will take a participatory approach to how the research is designed and carried out; the young people at the heart of Right Here will be asked to take part both by actually helping with the research and by giving us information through questionnaires and interviews.
This approach will benefit both the young people, through giving them further opportunities to develop new skills, and the evaluation, through the knowledge and understanding of local and age-specific issues that the young people themselves bring.
If you would like to become involved in the evaluation or would simply like to hear more about what we are doing then please contact one of the evaluation team:
Judy Corlyon: j.corlyon@tavinstitute.org
Matt Gieve: m.gieve@tavinstitute.org
Laura Stock: l.stock@tavinstitute.org
Thomas Spielhofer: t.spielhofer@tavinstitute.org
Tavistock Institute: 0207 417 0407