Thank you for your feedback. I agree with you that separating each channel and evaluating its cost effectiveness is better if my nonprofit decides to evaluate the program and decide on what to scale up or down. About overestimating the indirect outreach—very very true. But I needed to start with at least a number that is closer to reality and based on logical assumptions and the human indifference factor wasn’t helping the case (school simply not replying to our emails despite having received the packages or just sending a simple reply with no follow up).
As I also wrote above, there is a risk of duplicates, we might distribute materials and also be invited to a school to deliver a suicide prevention workshop (a training of sorts). In that case, the numbers would look much lower if we counted both channels separately, because the same people are being reached.
@Cat🔸 below wrote about analyzing youth suicide distribution across the regions and countering it with the school outreach in regions, which seems like also a more topical approach for the future analysis.
Thank you for your feedback. I agree with you that separating each channel and evaluating its cost effectiveness is better if my nonprofit decides to evaluate the program and decide on what to scale up or down. About overestimating the indirect outreach—very very true. But I needed to start with at least a number that is closer to reality and based on logical assumptions and the human indifference factor wasn’t helping the case (school simply not replying to our emails despite having received the packages or just sending a simple reply with no follow up).
As I also wrote above, there is a risk of duplicates, we might distribute materials and also be invited to a school to deliver a suicide prevention workshop (a training of sorts). In that case, the numbers would look much lower if we counted both channels separately, because the same people are being reached.
@Cat🔸 below wrote about analyzing youth suicide distribution across the regions and countering it with the school outreach in regions, which seems like also a more topical approach for the future analysis.