Dr David Diehl

Assistant Professor
Program Planning and Evaluation
3038A McCarty Hall D
(352) 392-1778 x 278
dcdiehl@ufl.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Abstract

Dr. David Diehl joined the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences in May of 2007. His appointment is 70% extension and 30% teaching.

Before joining the Department, he worked for non-profit organizations seeking to apply research and evaluation knowledge in a variety of community settings. His most recent employment was as Associate Research Scientist and Associate Director of the Center for Practical Evaluation at the Orelena Hawks Puckett Institute in North Carolina. His recent projects include: the evaluation of Under One Sky, an asset-based adoption project for youth in the foster care system; the creation of a parent’s association, FACES of Virginia Families, for foster, adoptive, and kinship parents in Virginia; and the evaluation of family support and early childhood programs. Dr. Diehl’s interests include: program evaluation, strategic planning, parent leadership, family support, and asset-based human development.

Dr. Diehl will be teaching the undergraduate and graduate courses in program planning and evaluation and hopes to instill an appreciation and understanding of practical evaluations in his students.

He has a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Wyoming and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Human Development from Cornell University. He also has a wife, Elizabeth, who is a landscape architect, and three children, Logan (6), Isabella (2 ½), and Leila (11 months), all of whom keep him very busy and provide a real-life education in early childhood development.

Selected publications

Diehl, D., & Trivette, C. (2006). Sources of information about partnership and collaborative projects. Milemarkers, 2(1), 1-3. Available from http://www. tracecenter.info/products.php.

O’Donnell, N., Cochran, M., Lekies, K., Diehl, D., Morrissey, T., Ashley, N., & Steinke, P. (2006). Sparking Connections, Phase II: A multi-site evaluation of community-based strategies to support family, friend, and neighbor caregivers of children. New York: Families and Work Institute.

Diehl, D., & Trivette, C. (2005). Evaluation of the Catawba County Parents as Teachers programs: Final report. Morganton, NC: Orelena Hawks Puckett Institute.

Diehl, D., & Trivette, C. (2004). Sources of information about community-based developmental screening program practices. Milemarkers, 1(8), 1-4. Available from http://www. tracecenter.info/products.php

Diehl, D. (2002). Evaluation: Telling the Family Support Story. America’s Family Support Magazine, 21(1), 27-42.

Diehl, D. (2002). Guide to Community Report Cards: Measuring Family and Community Well-Being. Chicago, IL: Family Support America.

Diehl, D. (2002). Family Support America: Supporting “Family Supportive” Evaluation. Harvard Family Research Project Evaluation Exchange, 8(1), 14-15.

Courses

Dr. Diehl will be teaching FYC 4622, Planning and Evaluation-Family, Youth and Community Science Programs and FYC 6000, Program Planning and Evaluation for Human Services Delivery.

Extension

Dr. Diehl will be creating resources for county faculty and working to build the capacity to conduct evaluations at all levels of Cooperative Extension.

Dr. Diehl worked with Cooperative Extension during his graduate career at Cornell and is happy to be back in the world of Extension. He will be working with county faculty to identify their needs and desires for resources in program planning and evaluation. He hopes to be able to offer resources that are practical, reasonable, and help provide the information valued by agents and program staff. Dr. Diehl believes that for evaluation to be useful, it must be valued by program staff and must emphasize practical and ongoing learning that benefits program participants and contributes to better outcomes.