Under contract with each state, WYSAC is evaluating this CDC-funded work by creating annual evaluation plans, forming evaluation indicators for process and outcome measures, and reporting progress on the evaluation indicators. Over the course of the evaluation, WYSAC will assess the approach, efficiency, effectiveness, sustainability, and impact of each state’s efforts.

The Division of Health Promotion at the North Dakota Department of Health been working with health care providers and other less traditional partners to help North Dakota residents prevent and manage type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. WYSAC will be helping the Division examine the effectiveness of working with new partners in this work.

WYSAC will work with North Dakota and the Chronic Disease Prevention Program at the Wyoming Department of Health to evaluate their work in the context of working in very rural states with severe winter weather, a population dispersed across large areas with few towns, and limited infrastructure for telehealth services. Although the work is not a direct continuation, WYSAC’s work in Wyoming is related to the previous evaluation of Wyoming’s CDC-funded State Public Health Actions to Prevent and Control Diabetes, Heart Disease, Obesity and Associated Risk Factors and Promote School Health.

WYSAC does similar work for the New Mexico Department of Health, described here.

WYSAC provides overarching guidance and technical expertise to NMDoH in developing, implementing, and evaluating the 1305 and 1815 projects. Specifically, WYSAC develops logic models and evaluation plans, facilitates the use of data to improve programming, documents program implementation and successes, and facilitates sustainability planning. This project uses both quantitative and qualitative data to guide and measure project progress and outcomes.

WYSAC evaluated this CDC-funded work by creating annual evaluation plans, forming evaluation indicators for process and outcome measures, and writing extensive evaluation reports highlighting progress on the evaluation indicators. We also conducted annual partnership assessments to measure synergy in Wyoming.

Over the course of three reports, we used qualitative data to assess operational efficiencies and inefficiencies, to track changes over time, and to make recommendations on how to improve synergy. In the last year of 1305, WYSAC collected, analyzed, and interpreted data to compose all six health impact statements for Wyoming to submit to the CDC.