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What is program evaluation
at THG?
The Henne Group (THG) evaluates public, healthcare, and policy initiatives to assess their effectiveness. By combining quantitative metrics with deep qualitative inquiry, THG answers the fundamental question: 'Did the intervention achieve its intended impact, and why?" These evaluations help agencies and nonprofits optimize resources and ensure accountability.
Public Health & Healthcare
Program Evaluation
Step 1: Engaging Stakeholders
Involve community members, sponsors, administrators, staff, officials, and communities early on to incorporate perspectives and address misalignments with stakeholder priorities.
Step 4: Gathering Credible Evidence
The agency uses a mixed-methods approach to blend numeric indicators and narrative for a complete view of performance.
Step 2: Describing the Program
The evaluation team creates a clear program description to ensure shared understanding of program objectives and establish clear performance benchmarks before data collection begins.
Step 5: Justifying Conclusions
Data is analyzed and compared to benchmarks and stakeholder values to produce transparent conclusions.
Step 3: Focusing the Evaluation Design
Evaluators isolate high-priority research questions and deploy cost-effective, statistically sound methodologies tailored to the target population
Step 6: Ensuring Use and Sharing Lessons Learned
The final evaluation findings support strategic planning, policy development, budgeting, and funding justification.
Credibility You Can Assess
Specialized Evaluation Modalities
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Formative & Feasibility Evaluation: Testing program concepts, messaging, and protocols with target communities prior to full rollout.
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Process / Implementation Evaluation: Assessing fidelity, operational workflows, participant enrollment barriers, and reach during active execution.
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Summative & Outcome Evaluation: Measuring immediate and intermediate changes in health behaviors, knowledge, clinical metrics, or service adoption.
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Health Equity & SDOH Impact Audits: Evaluating whether programs equitably reach historically underserved, rural, LGBTQ+, or low-literacy populations.
Operational Element | Core Capabilities | Strategic Contribution to Program Evaluation | Compliance & Security Protocols |
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Usability & Accessibility Testing | Interface validation, user journey mapping, and Section 508 remediation. | Identifies design friction in digital program portals, enhances online enrollment, and reduces development rework costs. | Boosts overall user satisfaction, minimizes costly post-launch redesign expenses, and optimizes digital tool workflows. |
Qualitative Data Collection | Focus group moderation, semi-structured In-Depth Interviews (IDIs), and ethnographic observation. | Explores complex behaviors and motivations, provides rich contextual meaning behind quantitative outcomes, and uncovers barriers to program access. | Translates lived experiences into a compelling narrative that pinpoints operational friction, counters systemic objections, and justifies strategic program adjustments. |
Quantitative Data Collection | Multi-channel surveys (online, telephone, in-person, mail) and CATI-equipped telephone stations utilizing Voxco CATI software. | Delivers statistically reliable, data-driven intelligence, monitors participant trends over time, and establishes performance benchmarks. | Delivers statistically reliable, data-driven intelligence, monitors participant trends over time, and establishes performance benchmarks. |
Applying for a Federal or Foundation Grant?
Include THG as Your Independent Evaluation Partner.
Writing a winning grant application requires demonstrating not just what your program will do, but how you will empirically prove its success.
The Henne Group collaborates with academic medical centers, public health agencies, and non-profit organizations from day one of the grant-seeking process. During the pre-award stage, our evaluation team works seamlessly with your PIs and grant coordinators to draft comprehensive, methodologically sound evaluation plans, build Theory of Change frameworks, and establish compliant budget structures.
When your award is funded, THG steps in as your turnkey, objective external evaluator, managing data collection, IRB coordination, participant surveys, and formal annual reporting so your team can stay focused on program execution.
