Moms as Experts of Their Own Lives: Feedback & Nurse-Family Partnership
BY ALEXA CARES AND ASHLEY STONEBURNER Through Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP), nurses partner with first-time moms early in their pregnancy to provide trusted support to help them build the lives they want for themselves and their children. Listening to the families Nurse-Family Partnership serves has always been important to the work, and it’s what NFP nurses naturally do…
Overcoming Language Barriers in Feedback
COVID prevention poster in English and Spanish Access to affordable, quality healthcare is a challenge for many low-income families, and Volunteers in Medicine (VIM) in Wilkes Barre knows this well. VIM is located in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania where, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, 20.4% of the families in this former coal-mining region live in poverty and 8.8%…
Habitat for Humanity Memphis Asked For Feedback. Here’s What They Learned.
When customers at the grocery-store bakery ask Riko Jones for a particular item they don’t see at the counter, like turnovers or coffee cakes, she says she’s proud she can keep baking to try to fulfill their requests. Jones says she’s proud, too, of being able to give her own feedback and make her own…
How Feedback Transformed One Funder’s Approach
Here’s Dominick Dudley’s blunt way to explain why young people like him working outdoor jobs through a California youth employment program need to have good relationships with their supervisors: “I’m not walking down into that creek when it’s pouring rain if I don’t like you.” Through Listen4Good surveys, Conservation Corps North Bay heard from Dominick and his…
Feedback Fuels a Caring Culture at DREAM
You’d have to forgive Janae and Axel, students at DREAM Charter School, in New York City, for being tired of surveys, focus groups, and, well, “just all the questions,” as Janae puts it. Ethan Greenberg does. As the data and evaluation analyst at DREAM, it’s Ethan’s full-time job to collect as many data points as…
Foster Youth Nonprofit Is Built Around Feedback
Sonya Trac and her colleagues at Pivotal (formerly Silicon Valley Children’s Fund & TeenForce) were learning a lot from the Listen4Good surveys they were administering to students in their STEM and workforce-training programs. Feedback from participants — all foster youths in Santa Clara County — had been leading to significant modifications to their programs, including in the…
