Evaluation Results

With the information presented and made available thus far and through the presentation/informational portion of today’s effort, I found I had an adequate understanding of the following to contribute:

	Strongly Agree	Agree	Neutral	Disagree	Strongly Disagree
Purpose/Intent of Event	29	28	1
Role as Participant	24	28	4
Intent of Bill	21	25	7	1	1
Prevention	19	26	2
Helpline and Media	15	28	5
WF Development	19	16	8	3
Research/Eval.	21	18	6	1
Treatment	21	23	5

In regards to the Break-out work sessions:

	Strongly Agree	Agree	Neutral	Disagree	Strongly Disagree
Topic, task, outcome, and process	28	22	3
Environment, voices and ideas were heard, ideas captured.	34	18	1
Achieved intended outcome.	31	17	5

General Questions:

1.  Given the purpose of the forum how would you rate the overall success in achieving that purpose?

      I believe it was a very helpful initial process.
      Positive
      Excellent
      Fair
      Very good
      Good start
      Movement in direction of “pulling it all together”.
      Good presentation
      Outstanding
      Very high success 
      Good forum for capturing expertise and different perspectives.
      Good, but we still have a long way to go.
      Good ideas to develop a great start.        
      The purpose was great, the outcome was great.
      Good start to an ongoing long-term project.
      Very good and fair.
      The format provided people with an opportunity to share ideas.

2.   What in today’s forum was most valuable to you?

      All of it.
      Breakout presenter.
      Getting a starting place.  Beginning to think about the issue in an organized manner.
      Variety of speakers.  Jeff Marotta.
      Listening to the panel.
      Breakout sessions – opportunity to share.
      Having Larry and Kathryn Franklin.
      Hearing the couple speak.
      Understanding the Senate Bill.
      Sharing new ideas and learning.
      Overall brainstorming.
      All of it.  Especially Representative George and Roth and small groups.
      The GA members.
      Ideas on further training and partnerships.
      Expanded knowledge of problem/pathological gambling.
      Meeting stakeholders and having the opportunity to interact.
      The communication of ideas and thoughts.
      Being seated next to a professional providing these services for years.
      Information given by others.
      Becoming more aware of what is involved in gambling problems.
      Overall picture.
      Information provided in the break out group.  The handouts from the different areas is good.
      Dialogue between attendees; RX providers recovering gamblers.
      Networking
      Awareness

3.   What could have made the event more effective?
     
      Types of training.
      More time.
      Smaller groups – more time.
      Comfortable chairs.
      More key-specific speakers.    

 Comments:
Very positive experience.

Nice mix of people from different disciplines and the recovery community.

Overall workshop and break-out session met or exceeded my needs to gain knowledge                         and understanding to go forward.

Lots of incentive ideas and information grew out of the sharing of thoughts.  The group went well.

Excellent morning session; great facilitation of Workforce Development break-out!

Let’s continue the dialogues!

An excellent beginning!

Good discussion.

Good session.

Really appreciate the richness of the conversations and open-mindedness of participants.

The two ladies that helped keep our thoughts on paper were a tremendous asset!

We don’t have to reinvent the wheel – build on the National Experts and the Kansas Coalition experience who have been involved since day one over 10 years ago.  Having Jeff M. and Tim C. is a reflection of those whose knowledge is pure gold!

Great day and thanks for the great lunch.

Joyce needs to smile.

Excellent.

Good diversity of groups represented.  Brought about a good wide variety of perspection.

Well planned.

Helpful to be able to talk in small groups and then share.

I attended the treatment break out.  Very good session.

It was a good day!

Did a great job!

Thank you!

Nice digs.

Enjoyed and learned some basics.

Thanks to Larry and Kathryn Franklin for their courageous sharing of their road to recovery.

Very inspirational!

Thanks for the opportunity to participate.

Thank you for the cinnamon rolls and lunch!  This is a great place to meet.