Full-Circle Support
Terrapin has seen long-term clients through entire program cycles - from strategy to implementation - from proving programs work, to improving programs - from pilot phase, to scale.
No matter where your organization is in the program life cycle, Terrapin is ready to help make and measure impact.
Case Study
Who
FoodFit - A budget focused healthier lifestyle program of Community Food Centres Canada
Challenge
Taking a community-based program from concept, to pilot, to national roll-out using a participant-focused evaluation strategy and using partner feedback to prove, improve and expand the program over time.
Approach
Evidence review to support program development and evaluation strategy for pilot program.
Participant-focused evaluation tools for self-monitoring changes in day-to-day symptoms, biometric measures, and pre/post program awareness, knowledge, confidence, and behaviours around healthy eating and physical activity.
Developmental evaluation of 1 year pilot program - using timely check-ins with FoodFit facilitators and quick turn arounds on evaluation findings to inform several stages of improvements to the program curriculum, resources, program delivery guidelines and monitoring/evaluation tools. Conducting participant interviews with past program participants for most significant change stories.
Grant proposal and grant writing for a Public Health Agency of Canada funded project to expand the project to 30 partner organizations over 5 years. Pilot evaluation results and most significant change stories helped attract matched funding from private donors and foundations to successfully deliver programs above and beyond the PHAC grant agreement. Contributing program outputs, outcomes and participant and partner stories for progress and annual reports to funders.
External evaluation support for data collection, analysis and reporting. Additional program support in training FoodFit facilitators, participating in annual retreats with program delivery partners, and presenting FoodFit program results at conferences and workshops. Contribute to curriculum development for FoodFit Youth program and ongoing development and improvement to FoodFit program materials and resources.
Develop strategy, tools and administer annual follow up phone interviews with previous year FoodFit participants to evaluate the sustained impact of the program.
Outcomes
Statistically representative samples of program participant data support ongoing attention and demand for the FoodFit program and sustainable funding of programs for grant partners across the country.
“We have worked with Terrapin for over 8 years, through the start-up and development of two complex health promotion projects - FoodFit and Market Greens - to which they’ve made an invaluable contribution at the level of both program and evaluation design. Trace and Stephen come at their work with a truly collaborative approach. While they are creative and innovative in finding ways to demonstrate impact, they are also adaptive and iterative, working in a way that is seamless and complementary to our team and mission. They bring energy, rigor, passion and fun to any project they’re involved with.”