Support and Training for the Evaluation of Programs

  • STEPs Staff

    The STEPs team is excited to assist your nonprofit organization with program evaluation, training, and capacity-building services. Learn more

  • Fall 2017 Professional Development and Continuing Ed Programs

    STEPs is offering professional development courses this summer - Discovering Basic Statistics and Preparing High Impact Graphs. Space is limited! Click for more information and to register! Learn more

  • STEPs One Pager

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  • Research and Activity Fair 2017

    STEPs' Graduate Research Assistants Natalie Scarpa - MSW/MPA student, and Tova Hettinger - MSW/MPA student, present during the 2017 UNO Research and Activity Fair. They will also present research at the November 2017 American Evaluation Association's annual conference in Washington, DC Learn more

Our Mission: To provide participatory, utilization-focused evaluation to programs serving children, youth, and families in poverty.

• We are eager to provide nonprofit organizations with the information they need to make evidence-informed decisions. • We are out in the community often: meeting with program staff, interviewing children and parents, surveying stakeholders, observing services, and presenting to boards. • Our participatory approach is grounded in communication and collaboration with our community partners. • Our utilization-focused approach spurs us to initiate projects and conversations that promote evaluative thinking in organizations. • We provide products like logic models, systems maps, and outcome reports that are made useful through data visualization.

Welcome to the STEPs website! STEPs is part of the Grace Abbott School of Social Work (GASSW) at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Our work is guided by social work principles and we are pleased to offer our services to organizations working to help children, youth, and families in poverty. What are your organization's evaluation needs? Are you looking for evaluation services grounded in a participatory, utilization-focused approach? Would you and your staff benefit from training to build your capacity to conduct program evaluation internally? Would your organization benefit from a needs assessment of the community it serves? STEPs is here and ready to help! Contact us today!