PPE offers UCCE capacity building trainings Aug. 4–Oct. 27

2026

Date/time

Defining Clientele & Civil Rights Compliance Planning 

8/4

10 a.m.-noon 

Kit Alviz, David White, Priyanka Vyas and Jocelyn Mobley

With recorded examples from UCCE professionals

• Understanding of how to define clientele groups and strategies for collecting baseline data 
• Understanding of civil rights compliance goal examples 
• Understanding of tools available to track annual progress against goals

Improving All Reasonable Effort and Engagement with New Audiences

8/11

10 a.m.-noon

Kit Alviz and David White

With guest speaker: Elizabeth Moon, UC ANR Director of Workplace Inclusion and Belonging   

• Understanding of public notification requirements
• Understanding of programmatic strategies to conduct and document all reasonable effort
• Understanding of programmatic strategies UCCE employs to increase opportunities for program participation
• Understanding of how to collect, tally and report audience attendance and demographics into an online reporting system

Conducting a Needs Assessment 

8/18

10 a.m.-noon 

Katherine Webb-Martinez and Vikram Koundinya

With guest speaker: Devii Rao, Livestock and Natural Resources Advisor

• Understanding of needs assessments basics (why, what, how, when)
• Understanding of how to write good needs assessment questions
• Understanding of how to use the findings to inform how you focus and develop your program 
• Feedback on your needs assessment approach or on your draft instrument/questions 

8/25

10 a.m.-noon 

Vikram Koundinya and Katherine Webb-Martinez

With guest speaker:  John Diaz, University of Florida

• Understanding of how the Delphi method can be used in needs assessment
• Understanding of how the Delphi method can be adapted for different situations
• Understanding of how the Delphi method was used in three research and evaluation studies

THUR

8/27

Noon-1 p.m.

Jennifer Sedell, Katherine Webb-Martinez and Kit Alviz 

• Understanding what the IRB is
• Understanding of how to locate and navigate IRB decision-making tools  
• Understanding of common forms and processes 
• Understanding the basic steps of navigating required trainings

Practical Methods to Measuring Outcomes 

9/1

10 a.m.-noon 

Katherine Webb-Martinez and Vikram Koundinya 

With UCCE Advisor or Specialist guest speakers 

• Understanding of how to define program theory and connect to UC ANR’s condition changes/public value
• Hands-on experience defining outcomes and measurable indicators and using a program logic model
• Understanding of options for evaluation data collection methods to measure program participant outcomes
• A draft evaluation plan

9/8

10 a.m.-noon

Vikram Koundinya and Samuel Ikendi

With guest speaker: Greta Landis, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Understanding of the importance of developing a strong evaluation plan in grant proposals
• Understanding of best practices for writing evaluation plans in grant proposals
• Understanding of real-life examples for the shared best practices
• Understanding of how a strong evaluation plan is written and implemented

9/15

10 a.m.-noon

Kit Alviz, Vikram Koundinya, and Jen Sedell

With guest speakers: Najat Elgeberi, University of Nevada-Reno, and Fanny Hernandez, University of Connecticut

• Understanding of when and why to use observation as a method for needs assessments and evaluations
• Understanding of local examples that used observation to collect data for needs assessments and evaluations
• Hands-on experience utilizing an extension-developed observation protocol 

9/22

10 a.m.-noon

• Skills to apply spatial thinking and techniques in conducting needs assessment and program evaluation 
• Understanding of tools to obtain secondary data for a geographic area of interest
• Ability to create a custom map of a geographic area with relevant layers of interest
• Understanding of factors driving geographic variation in program outcomes

• Ability to identify different sources of spatial and contextual data to evaluate program outcomes

9/29

10 a.m.-noon

Jen Sedell, Christina Becker, Vikram Koundinya and Samuel Ikendi

With guest speaker: Janessa Hartmann, UCCE Community Nutrition and Health Advisor 

• Understanding when and why to conduct focus groups as part of needs assessments and evaluations
• Understanding of the best practices for designing focus groups for needs assessments and evaluations
• Hands-on experience developing a focus group protocol
• Practical tips on conducting focus groups

Best Practices for Developing Surveys & Basics of Sampling Methods

THUR

10/8

10 a.m.-noon

Vikram Koundinya, Samuel Ikendi, Kit Alviz and Jocelyn Mobley

With guest speakers: TBD

• Understanding of the best practices for designing online and paper surveys
• Hands-on experience developing good survey questions
• Understanding of some online survey bot mitigation and detection methods
• Understanding of different outcome measurement survey designs
• Understanding of different survey sampling methods and when to use them

10/13

10 a.m.-noon

Vikram Koundinya and Kit Alviz

With guest speakers: Greta Landis, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Julia Van Soelen Kim, UC ANR

• Understanding of how to use REM in assessing the impact of extension programs
• Hands-on experience of REM method using an example case

Methods to Analyze Surveys: Continuous Quantitative Data (Analyzing and Presenting Pre-Post Evaluation Survey Data) 

10/20

10 a.m.-noon

• Understanding of measures of central tendency and variability
• Hands-on experience analyzing and reporting frequency distribution in pre/post tests using Excel
• Understanding of different types of mean difference tests
• Hands-on experience running a paired or dependent samples t-test in Excel, interpreting the results and reporting the findings
• Understanding of levels of quantitative data (e.g., nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio)

Methods to Analyze Surveys: Qualitative Data 

THUR

10/22

10 a.m.-noon

Jennifer Sedell and Christina Becker

• Understanding of types of qualitative analysis that can be done on open-ended survey data for program evaluation
• Hands-on experience of coding qualitative data and extracting themes using Excel, and reporting the findings
• Practice identifying a mixed methods design to evaluate a program

Writing Strong Impact Statements

10/27

10 a.m.-noon

Katherine Webb-Martinez and Christina Becker

With Mark Bolda, Chair of the Academic Assembly Council Personnel Committee

• Hands-on experience connecting your project/program outcomes to condition changes/public value
• Understanding of how to write strong impact statements
• Academics: hands-on experience organizing your program activities into themes using condition changes 
• Area Directors: feedback on County Spotlight impact statements