New for You:
Everyone has experienced the AGONY of inputting reports into the Unified Reporting System (URS).  However, few have yet to realize the THRILL of searching the URS database.  PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT is one of the goals of URS.  Anyone who has logged onto URS can also search to see what others are doing, and thus have input for developing programs.  How? 

On the URS entry portal, the one with the big green YES and big red NO, scroll down the right hand column titled, REPORTS.  Click on the Reports and Queries button, and log on normally.  At the Authorized Reports, click on Go.  You can now search on Extension Programs/ Projects by again clicking on the Go.  Choose the desired year (2001 probably has the most data now, but if people are reporting, the 2002 data will be the most current).  You can search on Key Words, Text Search, or Plan of Action Program Project. 

There are three levels of reports possible, depending on how much detail you want.  Once URS generates the results of your queries, you can use COPY and PASTE to transfer items of interest to your own word processing documents.  Try it!!
 

Treva Williams is the Family and Consumer Science/Community Development Agent and Chair in Scioto County.  The impact of her child care training programs is showing...

Program Description:
Scioto County Type B family child care providers are required to have several additional hours of training each year.  The Scioto County Department of Job and Family Services recognizes OSU Extension as a reputable educational provider and has partnered with us to offer a mininum of 6 two-hour workshops each year. Child care providers are certified through the DJFS. Youth participating in the 8-hour babysitting training developed and taught in Scioto County learn the basics of asset development, child development, play activiites, responsibilities, safety and first aid. This training better prepares young babysitters as they begin their work careers.

Program Impact:
As a result of the training, 19 child care providers indicated they had increased the number of reading based activities they conduct with children in their care. A total of 8 new child care providers participated in enough total hours of training to receive their local certification due to attending workshops offered by OSU Extension professionals. As a result of attending the Babysitting Basic training, 93% of the participants increased their knowledge of how to handle an emergency situation. 96% of the participants indicated they felt better prepared to be a babysitter as a result of attending the training sessions sponsored by OSU Extension.

This program description and impact statement was taken from URS.
 

PDETip:

Those Extension personnel, who want to conduct a survey, and whose respondents are all e-mail and web users, should think about doing an on-line survey.  The Program Development and Evaluation Unit has on-line software services available.  The advantages of this method include no postage, no copying, and no data entry.  Reminders can be readily sent and descriptive results in table format are available while the survey is in progress.  Data can also be downloaded for more sophisticated analysis in statistical software.  If you have an electronic version of your survey, and e-mail addresses of potential respondents, contact us.  We could also place links on web pages so that users of your web pages can be surveyed.

Calendar:
 

Date	Time	Event/Locations	Contact
8/12/02	N/A	Next Issue of U2CANEVALU8	Tom Archer archer.3@osu.edu
9/5/02	10 am - 3 pm	Getting Started with SPSS for Windows	Annie Berry berry.7@osu.edu
10/24/02	10 am - 3 pm	Establishing the Foundation:  Identifying the Basics in Program Development and Evaluation	Tom Archer archer.3@osu.edu
1/15/03	N/A	Deadline for 2002 URS entries	Debby Lewis lewis.205@osu.edu