Local parent support program
Local programs are initiated to improve the lives of people in the community. For instance, the parent support program assists low-income parents and those dealing with adolescent kids financially and emotionally. Although these programs are beneficial, they might fail to fulfill their purpose. Program evaluation determines whether or not the program is working and what improvements can be made to guarantee that particular community excellent services. The standards-based evaluation focuses on demonstrating the program’s organization and operations in achieving its defined mission. Appropriate standards-based program evaluation for a parent support program will involve engaging all the stakeholders, explaining the program, focusing on the assessment design, gathering facts, making sense of the conclusions, and sharing the lessons learned (Holm-Hansen, 2007). These steps serve as starting points around which a local program can tailor the evaluation to best meet their needs. The criteria that standards encompass include the appropriateness of activities for serving the community and its impact on solving the issue. Standards deal with timeliness, quality of services delivered, and how the program monitors its operations for standards compliance.
For a local parent support program, essential aspects of standard-based program evaluation include the mission, vision, and leadership. A support program’s effectiveness entirely depends on the presence of a clear mission and vision that the program is working to achieve. Additionally, leadership from the program manager and other officials reflects the commitment put towards the success of the program(Chyung, 2015). To keep members, donors, and the management appraised with the program’s operations, the local program posts information on their progress on their host organization’s website. The information published on this web shows more enrollment of parents seeking assistance and more donations being injected into the program. Most importantly, the program has given children of low-income parents opportunities to attend school.