Summary
Seven Directions is the first national public health institute in the United States dedicated entirely to Indigenous health and wellness. Their Indigenous Evaluation Toolkit supports community organizations in using Indigenous ways of knowing for evaluating opioid prevention, treatment, and recovery programs.
The Toolkit offers ten practical steps for Indigenous evaluation from program vision to using the findings to improve programs.
Policy & Practice Implications
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Using the Toolkit to include Indigenous ways of knowing into program evaluations can strengthen community trust, program relevance, and impact.
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Community organizations can use the Toolkit’s worksheets, reflection activities, and narrative case study to design evaluations that promote healing, respecting sovereignty, and ensuring data ownership.
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Providers and evaluators can apply the Toolkit to integrate meaningful outcomes and measures for Indigenous communities.
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