Team-MOE evaluates community-based public health, education, and economic empowerment initiatives with rigor, cultural humility, and accountability to the communities served—especially Black women and girls. We apply CDC’s Six Steps of Program Evaluation (engage stakeholders; describe the program; focus the evaluation design; gather credible evidence; justify conclusions; ensure use and share lessons learned) while integrating culturally responsive evaluation practices and Black feminist frameworks to ensure that what gets measured reflects what truly matters.

Featured Evaluation Studies

• Five-Year Summative Evaluation Report:  The R.I.S.E. (Reaching and Intervening with Substance-using Moms Effective) Program. Submitted to Mary Hall Freedom House, Inc. (MHFH) / Substance Abuse & Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA) Grant. (2024)

• Final Program Evaluation Report: Hands of Hope Clinic’s Direct Services Grant for a Diabetes Intervention Pilot Study funded by The Healthcare Georgia Foundation.  (2023)

• Evaluation Report: MedBank Foundation’s EmpowerHealth Capacity Building Grant funded by The Healthcare Georgia Foundation. (2022)

•  Evaluation Report: C.H.O.I.C.E.S.’s EmpowerHealth Capacity Building Grant funded by The Healthcare Georgia Foundation. (2022)

• Final Program Evaluation Report: Healing Community Center’s Direct Services Grant for a Diabetes Intervention Pilot Study funded by The Healthcare Georgia Foundation. (2021)

• Final Evaluation Report: Year Three:  Atlanta Partnership for Women’s Health (2016 - 2017). Submitted to The Center for Black Women Wellness. (2015-2017)

•  A Ten-Year Summative Evaluation of the DeKalb County (GA) Juvenile Drug Court's REBOUND Program (2005-2015). Submitted to the DeKalb County Juvenile Court.

•  Final Evaluation Report General Operating Grant Program: 2012-2013 Grantee Results. Submitted to The Healthcare of Georgia Foundation.

•  2012. Project Ready, Set, Go!: Five (5) Year Final Program Evaluation Report. Submitted to Youth Spark (formerly The Juvenile Justice Fund, Inc.).

• Doula Program Evaluation:  FY 2011-12 Process and Outcome Results.  Submitted to The Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention.

• The GEMS Program-Final Technical Report: 2011-12 HIV Prevention Programs for Girls at Greater Risk. Submitted to the Department of Health and Human Services: Office on Women’s Health.

• Healthcare of Georgia-GCAPP Partnership to Implement Teen Pregnancy Prevention Education in Rural Public Schools: Final Program Evaluation Report. Submitted to The Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention.

•  Building Capacity, Changing Lives: An Evaluation of the Women’s Funding Network’s Kellogg Foundation Grant. Submitted to the Women’s Funding Network.

Our Black feminist evaluation elements

(1) Respect Individuals’ Right to Self-Definition and Self-Valuation; (2) Address Internalization and Justifications of Controlling Images; (3) View Race, Class, and Gender as Intersecting Inequities; (4) Engage Women in Search for Unique Experiences; (5) Challenge the Matrix of Domination; (6) Frame Change within Organizational, Structural, and Individual Transformation; (7) Understand Black Women’s Daily Lives of Reality, Roles, Relationships, and Risk-Taking; (8) Balance Rigorous Research and Evaluation with Responsible Application; (9) Apply Comprehensive Solutions to Problem-Solving; and (10) Pursue Collective Empowerment, Activism, and Social Justice.

Select Evaluation Presentations

Advancing Black Feminism in Program Evaluation: A Case Study in Instrumentation and Observations Aimed at Deconstructing the Ecological Complexities Among Parents in a Family Drug Court Program. An oral presentation prepared for the 26th Annual Conference of the American Evaluation Association Minneapolis, MN.

Empowering Health Educators to Evaluate: The RISE Program as a Case Study in Black Feminism Approaches to Evaluation.  A Roundtable Presentation prepared for the 26th Annual Conference of the American Evaluation Association Minneapolis, MN.

Take it and Run with it: The FAST Approach to Engaging Community Members in a Needs Assessment to Assess and Address Teen Pregnancy. A Roundtable Presentation prepared for the 26th Annual Conference of the American Evaluation Association Minneapolis, MN.

Utilizing Evaluation Data to Shape the Next Generation of Family Drug Court Graduates. A Roundtable Presentation prepared for the 26th Annual Conference of the American Evaluation Association Minneapolis, MN.

Select Evaluation Publications

Gentry, Q.  2018.  Evaluating for Effectiveness:  Empowering Organizations to Engage Diverse Stakeholders in Key Phases of Evaluation. Atlanta:  Messages of Empowerment Productions, LLC

Gentry Q., T. Evans and E. Miller. October 2014. Evaluation in Underserved Communities. Healthcare Georgia Foundation. Publication #89.

Gentry, Q., K.W. Elifson, and C.E. Sterk. 2005. Aiming for more relevant HIV risk reduction: A black feminist perspective for enhancing HIV intervention for low-income African American women. AIDS: Education and Prevention. 17(3), 238-252.