Trainings

Defining Clientele & Civil Rights Compliance Planning 

Tues

8/4/26

10-12 PDT

Kit Alviz

David White

Jocelyn Mobley

Priyanka Vyas

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

Tues

8/11/26

10-12 PDT

Kit Alviz

David White

Guest Speaker:  Elizabeth Moon

• Understanding of public notification requirements
• Understanding of programmatic strategies to conduct and document All Reasonable Effort (ARE)
• 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

Tues

8/18/26

10-12 PDT

Katherine Webb-Martinez

Vikram Koundinya

With UCCE Advisor guest speakers

• Understanding of needs assessments basics (why, what, how, when)
• Understanding of how to write good needs assessment questions

Tues

8/25/26

10-12 PDT

Vikram Koundinya 

Katherine Webb-Martinez 

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

Thurs

8/27/26

12-1

PDT

Jennifer Sedell

Katherine Webb-Martinez

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

Tues

9/1/26

10-12 PDT

Katherine Webb-Martinez

Vikram Koundinya 

With UCCE Advisor guest speakers

• Understanding of how to define program theory and connect to UC ANR’s condition changes/ public value
• 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

Tues

9/8/26

10-12 PDT

Vikram Koundinya

Samuel Ikendi

Guest speaker: Greta Landis, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Understanding of the importance of developing a strong evaluation plan in a 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

Tues

9/15/26

10-12 PDT
 

Kit Alviz 

Vikram Koundinya

Jen Sedell

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 

Tues

9/22/26

10-12 PDT

Priyanka Vyas

Andy Lyons

• Skills to apply spatial thinking and techniques in conducting their 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

Tues

9/29/26

10-12 PDT

Jen Sedell

Christina Becker

Vikram Koundinya

Samuel Ikendi

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

Thurs

10/8/26

10-12 PDT

Vikram Koundinya

Samuel Ikendi

Kit Alviz

Jocelyn Mobley

Guest Speakers: To be confirmed

• 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

Tues

10/13/26

10-12 PDT

Vikram Koundinya

Kit Alviz

Guest Speakers: 

Greta Landis, Evaluation Specialist, University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension

Julia Van Soelen Kim, UCCE Food Systems Advisor

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

Tues

10/20/26

10-12 PDT

Samuel Ikendi

Kit Alviz

• 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)

Thurs

10/22/26

10-12 PDT

Jennifer Sedell

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

Tues

10/27/26

10-12 PDT

Katherine Webb-Martinez

Christina Becker

Guest speaker: Mark Bolda,  Chair of the Academic Assembly Council Personnel Committee

• Experience organizing your program activities into themes using condition changes 
• Experience connecting your project/program outcomes to condition changes/public value
• Understanding of how to write strong impact statements