During 2014, Whakauae was commissioned by jigsaw whanganui to carry out an evaluation of the agency’s White Water Years Parenting Programme. The evaluation was largely funded through a Lotteries Board grant with the final report being completed in November 2014.
A collaborative approach was taken to carrying out the evaluation mahi. Whakauae worked alongside jigsaw whanganui staff to clarify Programme intent, to determine how Programme quality and success would be judged and to collect and ‘make sense’ of evaluation data. jigsaw whanganui has already taken on board evaluation recommendations and is working towards further strengthening the already well rated White Water Years Parenting Programme. Programme developments influenced by the evaluation were outlined at a luncheon hosted by jigsaw whanganui to mark the completion of the evaluation.
Whakauae evaluators, Gill Potaka-Osborne and Lynley Cvitanovic joined jigsaw whanganui’s staff at the luncheon on 03 February 2015.
