Current Work Examples
Project Highlight: The Farm at Trinity Health
The Farm at Trinity Health provides community-centered food programs designed to improve health equity while investing in the local food system. Their signature program, the Farm Share, works with 24 local farms to operate a nine-month weekly produce distribution at the Ann Arbor, Oakland, Livonia, and Brighton sites. Community members who are experiencing nutrition insecurity can participate in the Farm Share at no cost through the Farm Share Assistance program.
PEG received Trinity Health System funding to serve as the project evaluators. The goal of the 2024 evaluation was to standardize and refine their evaluation protocols in order to understand the program’s impact on participants’ health and food security. PEG worked with The Farm at Trinity Health team to design and implement pre-post participant surveys as well as a farm partner survey to capture impacts on farm businesses supplying the program.
Now in the 2025 season, PEG is working with Trinity Health to build on the 2024 evaluation by refining tracking protocols to capture how often Farm Share members pick up their share as a way to assess dosage, integrating patient medical record data to assess impact on diabetes biometrics, and expanding the evaluation to include their new farm site in Muskegon.
Project Highlight: Michigan Association for Family Court Administration (MAFCA) and Michigan Juvenile Detention Association (MJDA)
PEG partnered with the Michigan Association for Family Court Administration (MAFCA) and Michigan Juvenile Detention Association (MJDA) to learn more about statewide implementation of a newly required juvenile detention screening tool. This work was supported by an Annie E. Casey Foundation grant to the MAFCA.
In October 2024, use of the screening tool was mandated by the Michigan State Court Administrative Office (SCAO) as part of the Justice for Kids and Communities juvenile justice reform legislation.
Data collection for this project included surveys of Michigan family court administrators and juvenile detention directors to document detention screening practices across the state, as well as stakeholder interviews and data interpretation sessions. The survey explored operational benefits and challenges associated with implementing the tool, and examined changes (if any) in detention admissions data. PEG administered an online survey to all 83 counties in Michigan and analyzed completed survey data (72.3% response rate). Findings from this project may help inform policy decisions for Michigan’s juvenile justice system.
Project Process Example
PEG partnered with a regional health promotion agency to enhance internal evaluation capacity to allow data-informed decisions on resource allocation and to more effectively capture program impacts.
“The Program Evaluation Group brought innovation and understanding to our logic model process making it easier for youth, volunteers and staff to fully participate. We have 11 youth development programs and we wanted each program to have their own logic model. Their conclusions helped us communicate the impact of our youth programs with funders and community supporters.”
— Mariah Bosquez, Impact and Improvement Coordinator Urban Neighborhood Initiatives
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