Evaluation
Delivered by UCL, the University of Exeter and Anna Freud
The evaluation team is a partnership between UCL, the University of Exeter and Anna Freud. The team is carrying out an evaluation of Kailo so that we can learn from the experiences in Newham and Northern Devon.
The aim of this evaluation is to learn more about how and why Kailo works in local areas, and to learn more about young people’s experiences of taking part in Kailo. We hope that our findings will help us to improve Kailo before we launch it in new places.
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Young Person’s Advisory Group
There are two Kailo advisory groups, one in Newham and one in North Devon. Both groups are helping to shape the evaluation of Kailo. We think it’s important for young people to be involved in every step of this evaluation as we recognise we can’t do this work without them!
“The YPAG is a space for creatively evaluating the Kailo Project through collaboration and open conversation. It enables us to look into the work being done in a constructive way, with all having an overarching goal of improving life for those with mental health issues.”
(North Devon YPAG member)
What have we been doing?
The Young Person’s Advisory Groups (YPAGs) meet every month and take part in a range of activities to shape the evaluation. These include:
- Learning about Realist Evaluation approaches and methods.
- Reviewing participant information sheets and consent forms.
- Redesigning context-mechanism-outcome configurations, generated by researchers as part of a rapid realist review.
- Helping write group discussion and interview questions.
- Exploring creative ways to share research findings.
As the evaluation continues, we will be helping to facilitate group discussions, providing feedback on research findings and helping to share everything we have learned.
Some of our group members have written blogs about their experiences of being involved in the Kailo YPAG, which you can read here and here.
some of the words used by group members to describe the North Devon YPAG
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