Advocacy and Policy Change
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Molly O'Connor, MS (she/her/hers)
Creative Evaluation Consultant
Coco Canary Consulting, LLC, Minnesota, United States
Molly O'Connor, MS (she/her/hers)
Creative Evaluation Consultant
Coco Canary Consulting, LLC, Minnesota, United States
Sully Moreno, MA (she/her/hers)
Founder & CEO
Culture Shift Consulting
Seattle, Washington, United States
Sully Moreno, MA (she/her/hers)
Founder & CEO
Culture Shift Consulting
Seattle, Washington, United States
Location: Room 202
Abstract Information: Public Health - Seattle & King County (PHSKC) hired Sully Moreno (Culture Shift Consulting) & Molly O'Connor (Coco Canary Consulting) to conduct a community engagement and creative evaluation to help create a more accessible procurement/contracting process, specifically for small, BIPOC-led community-based organizations (CBOs). In this session, Sully and Molly will demonstrate how they used guiding principles, arts-based methods (storytelling), a community advisory committee, community feedback sessions, local artists, and a Data Playback & Art Showcase ("Evocative Playback") to create art that became tangible recommendations and PHSKC's equitable contracting vision.
Relevance Statement: Implications for Practice: This project highlights: (1) how to do evaluations in accessible & culturally responsive ways (ex. Spanish translation was used); (2) how evaluations can be grounded in equity; and (3) how evaluations can be used to advocate for community needs and systems change, specifically by using arts-based methods, developmental evaluation approaches, and the Creative Evaluation & Engagement Framework (Murphy-Johnson & Johnson, 2022). This project builds upon the body of evaluation practice, specifically adding much-needed tangible ways to incorporate arts-based methods (storytelling) in practice. Implications for Theory: Creative Evaluation & Engagement is a new framework grounded in UFE, Developmental Evaluation, Arts-based Evaluation, and much more. This project builds upon this body of work, specifically adding much-needed knowledge in the ways of incorporating arts-based methods in the evaluation field. Why Advocacy and Policy Change: When reviewing the different TIG options, Sully and I believed this session fit best under the Advocacy and Policy Change TIG. This was because this project was predominantly a community engagement with a creative evaluation lens, in which community organizing and community voice took the lead. In the end, changes in processes and systems were completed thanks to the combined efforts and advocacy of community members, PHSKC staff, collaborating artists, and the consultant team. Footnotes: Murphy-Johnson, N. & Johnson, A. F. (2022) Creative Evaluation and Engagement: Volume 1: Essentials. Inspire to Change, LLC.