This interactive webinar guided participants through the basics of program and outcomes evaluation in a care farming context. Presenters explained key terms, shared simple tools and surveys, and demonstrated how to use qualitative and quantitative data to assess impact and strengthen funding cases. Attendees left with practical strategies they could apply right away, no research background required!
Links Shared From Webinar:
Toni Watt’s slides presentation
Jackie Farrell’s slide presentation
Well-Being Measures– Measures of emotional well-being for individuals with intellectual
disabilities: A scoping review of reviews
Link to PHQ-9– The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 is a nine-item questionnaire used to screen for depression and assess its severity
THE WHOQOL-BREF– Measuring quality of life
MANSA– The MANSA is a brief instrument for assessing quality of life focusing on satisfaction with life as a whole and with life domains
Watts Connectedness Scale– A tool to help those who have undergone a psychedelic experience articulate and quantify feelings of connectedness post-experience
Rehab Measures Database– Containing over 580 measures and supported by some of the world’s top therapists, researchers, educators and doctors, the Rehabilitation Measures Database (RMD) is the go-to resource for measuring benchmarks and outcomes in physical medicine and rehabilitation
Red Wiggler Care Farm logic model
Meet the Presenters
Jackie Farrell (she/her) is an occupational therapist and emerging researcher interested in uplifting alternative and integrative ways of providing care to individuals with physical disabilities and mental health challenges. For the past 6 years, Jackie has worked as an occupational therapist in community-based mental health care. She has seen how traditional mental health services are often not able to fully address people’s needs and sees care farming as a hopeful pathway towards better care. She is also Adjunct faculty in the Boston University Doctorate of Occupational Therapy program. Located in Massachusetts, Jackie enjoys tending to her own home garden and creating homemade herbal body products.
Toni Watt is a Professor and Chair of Sociology at Texas State University. Dr. Watt received her PhD in Sociology with an emphasis in Demography from the University of Texas at Austin. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in research methodology, drugs and society, and mental health. Her research is both academic and applied and focuses on improving outcomes for children and youth who have experienced trauma and/or the foster care system. Her recent work examines the potential mental health benefits of nature-based interventions, care farming, and peer support.